One of the World’s Oldest Churches Reopens in Aqaba, Dating Back to Around 290 AD
Jordan’s Red Sea port city of Aqaba has brought one of early Christianity’s rarest monuments back into public view. The Aqaba Archaeological Church, dated to…
Zack Rafiel
Mysterious Spherical Stones Found Near the Iraq Border in Eastern Turkey Still Unexplained
In eastern Turkey, close to the Iraqi border, a group of massive spherical stones discovered during roadworks continues to raise unanswered questions—three years after they…
A Dog Buried with a Dagger Beneath a Lake: A 5,000-Year-Old Ritual Found in Sweden
Five thousand years ago, in what is now southern Sweden, people deliberately lowered a large dog into a shallow lake and buried it with a…
A Roman Amphora Reveals Sardine Consumption in Roman-Era Switzerland
Archaeologists working at Gebenstorf, near the Limmat River in northern Switzerland, have uncovered the first archaeological evidence that sardines were consumed in Roman-era Switzerland, following…
A Lost Polish Eagle From 1939 Emerges From the Forests Near Starachowice
In a quiet stretch of woodland near Starachowice in southeastern Poland, a routine search unexpectedly opened a direct window onto the opening days of World…
Mapping the Luvi World: A New Digital Catalogue Redraws Bronze Age Western Anatolia
For much of modern scholarship, the Luvi cultural landscape of western Anatolia has been reconstructed through fragmented excavation reports and a limited number of well-known…
A 2,300-Year-Old Fingerprint Found on Scandinavia’s Oldest Wooden Boat
For a brief moment more than 2,300 years ago, a sailor pressed his hand into warm pine pitch while repairing a wooden boat. The gesture…
A Palace Beneath a Palace Discovered at Kültepe, Home to Anatolia’s Earliest Written Records
At Kültepe Kaniš-Karum, the site where Anatolia’s earliest written documents were first uncovered, archaeologists have made a discovery that pushes the region’s history deeper than…
Pope Leo XIV Declares Christian Archaeology Essential for Understanding the Future of the Church
Pope Leo XIV has published a landmark Apostolic Letter marking the centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, asserting that Christian archaeology is indispensable…