Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Nine Parthenon fragments requested from Athens will remain in Greece while two pieces from the British Museum head to Frankfurt for an exhibition reconstructing the…
A 210-million-year-old dinosaur found in Zimbabwe carried evidence of a difficult episode in its short life. Before dying at roughly eight years old, Musango matusadonaensis…
A tiny gilded ornament discovered by a metal detectorist in Norfolk has been recognized as an object of national importance, prompting the British government to…
A circular opening in the skull of an adolescent buried in Bronze Age Myanmar may preserve evidence of a remarkable medical intervention. Its healed edges…
A 4,300-year-old Saqqara tomb has brought the careers of two Egyptian officials back into view. One managed agricultural records and offerings; the other rose to…
A metal detectorist has uncovered Finland’s largest known Viking Age coin hoard, revealing thousands of silver coins buried near the town of Sysmä. The coins…
Archaeologists at Pompeiopolis in northern Anatolia have uncovered approximately 105 square meters of a fourth-century mosaic, but the number comes with an important qualification: it…
Dozens of ancient ship carvings appear to sail across the weathered sandstone blocks of a monumental temple in Cyprus. Some consist of little more than…
Long before written plans and measuring instruments entered the archaeological record, Göbekli Tepe’s builders were arranging enormous stone pillars within carefully organized monumental spaces. Three…
