2 August 2026
Egypt’s 5,000-Year-Old Sabu Disk Looks Like a Machine Part—But What Was It Really For?
The Sabu Disk resists easy classification. Carved from schist and dated to Egypt's First Dynasty, it…
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Author: Leman Altuntaş
2 August 2026
Who Really Built East Africa’s Mysterious Stone Cities? The African History Colonial Archaeology Tried to Erase
Along the coast of East Africa stand the remains of cities that once astonished travellers arriving…
1 August 2026
Kazakhstan’s Bronze Age ‘Brienne of Tarth’? Nearly 2-Meter-Tall Woman Buried at Center of Ancient Cemetery
A Bronze Age woman buried in northern Kazakhstan would have towered over almost everyone around her.…
1 August 2026
Rare Balkan-Style Temple Ring Found in Pskov, Only the Third from the Medieval City
Archaeologists in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov have discovered a rare medieval temple ring decorated…
31 July 2026
LiDAR Reveals Up to 30,000 Earthworks Built by a Lost Amazonian Civilization
A vast network of geometric earthworks hidden beneath the rainforest suggests that southwestern Amazonia once supported…
30 July 2026
Austria’s Largest Roman Pottery Production Center Ever Discovered Reveals More Than 100 Kilns
Archaeologists excavating a field in eastern Austria have uncovered part of an enormous Roman pottery production…
30 July 2026
Archaeologists Unearth Two Miniature Mammoth Ivory Birds Carved 40,000 Years Ago
Two miniature bird figures carved from mammoth ivory around 40,000 years ago have been discovered in…
30 July 2026
Oldest Roman Library in the Iberian Peninsula Identified at a Villa in Spain
A room at the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo, long interpreted as a sanctuary of Mithras,…
29 July 2026
1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints in Kenya Reveal Surprisingly Large Early Hominins
Fossil footprints preserved beside an ancient lake in northern Kenya have captured an extraordinary scene from…
28 July 2026
2,000-Year-Old Chinese Rock Art May Owe Its Survival to Blood from Childbirth
Ancient artists in southern China may have used a remarkable mixture of lime, red clay and…