Science
Archaeology
BULLISH ON THE STORM GOD
In southern Turkey's Amuq Valley, a curious one-inch-tall lead figurine unearthed at a rural Bronze Age site is giving archaeologists a glimpse of how villagers living around 2000 B.C. responded to a period marked by increasing drought.
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July/August 2023
Archaeology
A SURPRISE IN SUDAN
Beneath the ruins of the medieval village of Old Dongola, on the Nile in northern Sudan, a team from the University of Warsaw was surprised to find stone blocks that may date to the time of the pharaoh Taharqo (reigned ca.690-664 B.C.).
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July/August 2023
Archaeology
THE PALACE ON TABLET HILL
At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu A in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French archaeologists excavated tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets there.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
VIKING SUPPORT ANIMALS
The warriors of the Viking Great Army who campaigned in Britain from A.D. 865 to 878 worshipped gods often associated with animal companions, such as Odin and his eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
UPDATE - TEMPLE TIMES TWO
A team led by archaeologist Jessica Ortiz Zevallos has returned to the Temple of the Painted Pillars at the site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru, where they have discovered new well-preserved, brightly colored paintings.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
BOG TOGS
A piece of fabric found in a Highland peat bog in the early 1980s has now been determined to be the oldest example of true tartan ever located in Scotland.
1 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
A NEW DAY FOR THE ANCESTORS' MOUNDS
In fall 2007, Glenna Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, visited the Octagon Earthworks in the central Ohio city of Newark while attending a lecture series at the Ohio State University in nearby Columbus.
3 min |
July/August 2023
Archaeology
LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST SPARTANS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI
Unearthing evidence of defiance and resilience in the homeland of the Chickasaw
10+ min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
The Man in the Middle
How an ingenious royal official transformed Persian conquerors into proper Egyptian pharaohs
10+ min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
Rituals of the Cattle Raiders
Rock art in the mountains of South Africa tells the story of how the Khoe and San peoples resisted enslavement
7 min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
Peru's Great Urban Experiment
A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way of life in the vast city of Chan Chan
10+ min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
REUSING THE PAST
Archaeologists discover how an embattled Assyrian king fortified Nineveh
3 min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
LOST ROMAN RESORT
In the Bay of Naples, miles of ruins recall the splendor of ancient imperial holidays
10+ min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
AROUND THE WORLD
Researchers determined that a mastodon living in the Pacific Northwest 13,900 years ago was wounded when it was struck by a spear.
3 min |
May/June 2023
Archaeology
Archaeology's Top 10 Discoveries of 2021
Discoveries
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
A Brush With Genius
An unprecedented find in central China brings to life the early years of a master calligrapher
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE
In the early 1960s, archaeologists from around the world descended on the Upper Nile Valley.
3 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
Under the Holy City
A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
TURNING SALT INTO GOLD
In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
OFF THE GRID
OPLONTIS, ITALY
2 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
AT FACE VALUE
Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
When Isis Was Queen
At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
ITALIAN MASTER BUILDERS
A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess
7 min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories
Thousands of mural fragments from the city of San Bartolo illustrate how the Maya envisioned their place in the universe
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS
Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals shared the landscape
10+ min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN
New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning
9 min |
November/December 2021
Archaeology
Who Were The Samaritans?
Investigating a once-powerful sect that has preserved its sacred traditions for millennia
10 min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
Digs & Discoveries
Roman marble cutters, anglo-saxon giant, neanderthal hearing… and much more
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE
Reimagining the experience of initiation into an ancient Greek mystery cult
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Archaeology
LAND OF THE PICTS
New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors
10+ min |