Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
A two-square-metre test pit opened beside St James’ Church in Ghent has exposed four well-preserved burials at a depth of 1.3 metres. Further investigation indicates…
Archaeologists working at 3,400 metres above sea level in northern Peru have uncovered 12 circular structures believed to be Inca storehouses, alongside a separate building…
Archaeologists have discovered a 9,000-year-old malachite and copper workshop at Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Türkiye. The stone-paved workspace contained raw and partly worked malachite, processed…
A scientific paper claiming that satellite radar data had revealed previously unknown rooms, corridors and tunnels inside the Great Pyramid of Giza has been retracted.…
For more than two centuries, a Roman sea mosaic discovered beneath Cirencester survived largely as an image on paper. The pavement itself disappeared beneath the…
Worked wooden piles uncovered at the entrance to Denmark’s Trøjborg Castle may belong to a former gatehouse. Tree-ring dating could reveal whether they formed part…
An iron shield fitting rescued from a scrapyard in eastern Poland has been identified as a 1,800-year-old archaeological artifact. Inside it, museum specialists found something…
The face of “Conquest Man,” an individual buried in England shortly after the Norman Conquest, has been digitally reconstructed from his 1,000-year-old skull. His burial…
A radar built to find military tunnels and buried objects is now testing what lies beneath Turkey’s Noah’s Ark-shaped Durupınar Formation. Its first survey identified…
