Through over a decade of fieldwork and the analysis of high-resolution 3D data,a team led by Masato Sakai at Yamagata University in Japan has uncovered 142 new designs, it announced this week.

Aarchaeologists located a tank used to store drinking water, possibly for the needs of the workforce. The team found a scarab ring, hundreds of inlay beads and golden objects which were used to decorate royal coffins. Some of the inlays are shaped in…

Researchers argues; private property, not productivity, precipitated Neolithic agricultural... Farming would be an unlikely choice without possession-based private property, which appears to have existed among rare groups of sedentary…

Viking migrations occurred following a 300-year period of population decrease in Ireland. This new, data-driven synthesis of the archaeological record contrasts with previous accounts of early medieval Ireland as a period of ever-growing expansion…

The oldest stegosaur ever has been discovered by British team in Morocco. Named Adratiklit boulahfa, or "mountain lizard," London Natural History Museum researchers managed to figure out it was a new species of stegosaur from a few unearthed…

New finds that complete the picture on the buildings' architecture around the Apollo temple on the uninhabited island of Despotiko, west of Antiparos island revealed excavations and restoration works that were held recently on the island.

Ancient DNA has shed fresh light light on the origins of the legendary Biblical people who gave their name to mindless thuggery. It suggests they descended from migrants who crossed the Mediterranean and reached the shores of modern-day Israel,…

Onur Özbek kimdir? Prof. Dr. Onur Özbek kimdir?

Among the newly discovered finds in the village of Slatina, there are various items of household and cult like a bone spoon and ceramic utensils, pintadera, parts of cult sacrificial tables. Slatina is believed to be the site of the oldest human…

Chinese ceramic sherds dating to the Tang and Song dynasties (9th to 11th centuries AD) that have been recovered in Spain proved that trade links already existed between China and Western Europe along the Maritime Silk Road at that time.

Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. First Anatolian farmers were local hunter-gatherers that adopted agriculture.

Facial recognition for coins: The novel scanner O.S.C.A.R., short for Optical System for Coin Analysis and Recognition, not only scans coins' visual features but also the minutest signs of wear such as scratching, clipping, contours, edges, pitting…

Archaeolog Dr. Lee Clare says; As mentioned previously, our scientific research is currently in what I would refer to as a “transitional phase”. Freed of its old paradigm, I believe that we will see Göbeklitepe in a completely different light.

Batı dışı uygarlıkların başarılarını inkâr etmek ne anlama geliyor? 'Batılı inkârcılar' eski Mısırlıların ya da Bantu uygarlığından Shona halkının söz konusu yapıların müellifi olduğunu kabul etmek yerine, neden onların faaliyetlerini ve becerilerini…

Hamail veya Hamayli nedir?

Thomas Stöllner is expert on the archaeology of salt mines and has been conducting research in Iran for 17 years. He has been involved in the Chehrābād project since 2005.

Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations

Ürdün'ün 2.000 yıldan beri terkedilmiş Ölü Ateş Çölü olarak nitelenen Jebel Qurma bölgesinde en az 4.000 yıllık taştan inşa edilmiş mezarlar bulundu. Mezarların 'kule mezar" olduğu tahmin ediliyor.

Pompeii’de definecilerin antik villa kalıntılarını yağmalamak için açtığı 60 metrelik tünelleri fark eden arkeologlar, yanar külleri altında kalmış askeri at kalıntısı ve patlamadan sonra yaşamını sürdüren bir insana ait iskelet kalıntıları buldular.…

Denizler, bazı tarihi olayları aydınlatacak önemli hazineler saklıyor. Bu hazinelerin ne zaman, nerede bulunacağını kimse bilemiyor. Ama bazen dalgalar bu hazine parçalarının bir kısmını balıkçı ağlarına taşıyabiliyor. Tıpkı Hollanda'da olduğu gibi:…