Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Gold, horses, weapons, and monumental kurgans have long shaped the image of Scythian elite power. But a new study published in Science Advances suggests that…
Cremated bones from two Early Iron Age cemeteries near Thessaloniki are helping archaeologists reconstruct a part of ancient funerals that almost never survives: the funeral…
Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered a Stone Age flint dagger beneath the former site of Åbrostugan, an 18th-century cottage that once stood in Åbro village…
Archaeologists excavating beside an old road in south-west Spain have found rare evidence linking prehistoric stelae directly with burials, movement routes, and changing funerary customs.…
Archaeologists near Sirolo, on Italy’s central Adriatic coast, have uncovered a 6th-century BC Picene funerary complex centered on a high-status male burial with a two-wheeled…
Archaeologists working at West Cambourne in Cambridgeshire, England, have uncovered a rare late Iron Age wooden ladder preserved in a large watering hole. The surviving…
A temple uncovered more than a century ago at the Men Sanctuary in Yalvaç, southwestern Türkiye, is now being identified by archaeologists as a sanctuary…
A rare copper halberd excavated in Powys, Wales, is helping archaeologists understand how some of the earliest metal objects reached Britain more than 4,000 years…
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Hyksos-era settlement and cemetery complex at Tell el-Koa in Ismailia, adding new evidence for how communities lived, worked and buried…
