Archaeology

Oct 17th, 2025 - Seven fully preserved skeletons found in an ancient city in Croatia have been identified as Roman soldiers who would have lived 1,700 years ago, scientists said in a new paper .   The skeletal remains were found in 2011 during a dig at the Roman city of Mursa, located in modern-day Croatia, in a water well that had been repurposed as a mass grave, said the researchers, who are from a number of European archaeological institutions. The area was conquered by Romans during the first century ... [Read More]

Oct 16th, 2025 - Skull cups and skeleton masks have been discovered among a pile of 5,000-year-old discarded human bones in China , according to a new study. The sculpted skulls were found jumbled up with pottery and animal remains, but the purpose of the macabre items has so far eluded experts. These bones come from the Liangzhu culture, which included the earliest city in East Asia, according to the study, which was published Aug. 26 in the journal Scientific Reports . The collection of bones was carbon-dated ... [Read More]

Oct 14th, 2025 - Intriguingly, one of the figures shown in the burial murals looks like a "Westerner". Archaeologists in northern China have unearthed a centuries-old tomb decorated with stunning murals portraying daily life during the Tang dynasty, which ruled much of central and eastern China from A.D. 618 to 907. The murals cover every surface of the 8th-century tomb except the floor. The artwork depicts Chinese men and women threshing grain, fetching water from the well, making noodles, and other daily ... [Read More]

Oct 5th, 2025 - CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian antiquities officials on Sunday said a Pharaonic painting has disappeared from the famed Saqqara necropolis just outside of Cairo, becoming the latest artifact to disappear in a country known for its rich history. Mohamed Ismail, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the limestone painting was in the tomb of Khentika in the Saqqara necropolis. The mastaba tomb, which housed the painting, was found in the 1950s, and hasn't opened since 2019, he ... [Read More]

Oct 4th, 2025 - One of the largest tombs in Egypt 's Valley of the Kings reopened to visitors after more than 20 years of renovation. The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the west bank of the Nile River near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor. It was discovered in 1799 by two people, and its contents were looted, including the sarcophagus, Egyptian antiquities authorities said. It has been under a Japanese-led, three-phased ... [Read More]

Sep 26th, 2025 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians.  The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of the harbor on Sept. 18. It was found at the Temple of Taposiris Magna, about 30 miles west of Alexandria. The temple, built in the Ptolemaic era, was dedicated to Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife. Though the temple ... [Read More]

Sep 23rd, 2025 - It all used to be so simple. The story of how we – that is Homo sapiens , today's humans – emerged from Africa and spread across what's become Europe and Asia was a neat, straightforward narrative. It began around 50,000 years ago when our brains experienced a lightbulb moment of advancing cognition and creativity, stimulating our ancestors to journey beyond our cradle continent. When they reached Eurasia, around 40–30,000 years ago, they encountered another group of humans, a ... [Read More]

Sep 18th, 2025 - The 14,000-year-old smoked mummies in Southeast Asia are rewriting burial history By the time the ancient Egyptians were wrapping their dead in linens and sealing them in golden tombs, a very different kind of preservation was already widespread across tropical Southeast Asia. Thousands of years earlier, hunter-gatherers there had discovered a way to cheat decay, not with desert air, but with fire and smoke. Now, an international team of archaeologists has traced that practice back more than ... [Read More]

Aug 31st, 2025 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Archaeologists recently unearthed two churches in Egypt that are over 1,500 years old, offering rare evidence of Christianity's rise in the country's Western Desert.  The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a press release in late July. The churches were found at Kharga Oasis, an ancient settlement roughly 350 miles southwest of Cairo.  The site is known for its notable ancient Christian remains , including ... [Read More]

Aug 25th, 2025 - From carved figurines to coins, skeletons, and even entire settlements, the railway has opened up a new golden age of archaeology. When the HS2 railway was first announced, a lot of people were understandably thrilled. The railway is supposed to link Britain's two largest cities, London and Birmingham, via a new, high-speed railway, and then extend even further. But a lot of people were excited for a completely different reason: archaeology. Before engineers can build the tracks, stations, ... [Read More]

Aug 14th, 2025 - A discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the timeline of early human sea crossings and deepened the mystery of who made them. Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools at a site in southern Sulawesi called Calio that are at least 1.04 million years old, and possibly as ancient as 1.48 million years. Because Sulawesi has always been surrounded by deep, fast-moving waters, whoever made them would have needed to travel across open ocean. "This is by far the earliest known ... [Read More]

Jul 15th, 2025 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Archaeologists recently uncovered a mysterious Roman-era settlement site in Germany, complete with building remains and hundreds of artifacts dating back nearly two millennia. The Schafbreite site, located within the western German town of Delbrück, has been settled since the first century A.D. The site was recently excavated by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL).   In a June 13 statement, the LWL announced the results of its ... [Read More]

Jul 10th, 2025 - The tomb of a Mayan king has been discovered by Texas archaeologists in Caracol, Belize, marking the first time researchers in the ancient city have found a ruler's identifiable resting place. Caracol dates back to 900 B.C., according to the Caracol Archaeological Project , and lasted centuries until the collapse of the Maya civilization in A.D. 800-900. At its peak, the city had a population of over 100,000 people. Today, the city is the largest Mayan archaeological site in Belize, the project ... [Read More]

Jul 2nd, 2025 - For the first time, scientists have sequenced a complete DNA set from an ancient Egyptian man, the oldest studied sequence, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed. The analysis, published in Nature on Wednesday, showed the remains belonged to a potentially well-regarded pottery worker — one who may have lived into his 60s. With DNA analysis that has until now been limited, the study reveals clues about people's movements around that time: Twenty percent of his ancestry showed ... [Read More]

Jun 26th, 2025 - Archaeologists have discovered the remains of multistory houses and a ceremonial building linked to the cobra-headed goddess Wadjet in the ancient Egyptian city of Imet. Dense architectural remains indicate that Imet was a bustling urban center during Egypt's Late Period (circa 664 to 332 B.C.), or the last period of Egyptian rule before Alexander the Great and his general Ptolemy I Soter took over, according to a statement describing recent excavations in what is now Tell Nabasha (also spelled ... [Read More]

Jun 25th, 2025 - A closer look at the burial of a man born of incest 5,000 years ago reveals he was unlikely to have been a god-king. The ancient DNA of a man buried in a monumental Stone Age tomb in Ireland revealed he was born of incest 5,000 years ago. But this fact doesn't mean he was a "god-king" as previously claimed, according to a new study. "Nothing in the archaeological record from Neolithic Ireland indicates that 'kings' — or any sort of royal hierarchy — existed at the time," study lead ... [Read More]