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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Rare Urartian Mural Found in Armenia with Its 2,600-Year-Old Colors Still Preserved
A joint French-Armenian archaeological mission has uncovered a rare painted wall panel at Erebuni Fortress in…
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
3,300-Year-Old Hittite Iron Dagger Reveals the Elegance of Bronze Age Weapon Design
A Hittite dagger on display at the Amasra Museum on Türkiye’s Black Sea coast offers a…
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
626 Mysterious Marks on an Ancient Greek Gate in Libya Have Been Decoded
For more than two thousand years, hundreds of letters and monograms have remained visible across the…
31 July 2026
Rock-Cut Tomb Linked to a Deified Thracian Ruler Unearthed Beside a 1,700-Year-Old Mausoleum
Archaeologists at Perperikon in southern Bulgaria have uncovered an eight-metre-wide circular mausoleum beside rock-cut tombs associated…
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…
31 July 2026
Rare 1,600-Year-Old Phallic Nail Cleaner Unearthed Near Cheltenham, England
A rare Roman phallic nail cleaner dating back around 1,600 years has been discovered during excavations…