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A 10,000-Year-Old Sketch: Sefertepe Excavation Uncovers Remarkably Detailed Boar Cub Carving
Archaeologists working at Sefertepe, one of the emerging Neolithic sites of Türkiye’s Taş Tepeler region, have uncovered a delicately incised depiction of a wild boar piglet carved into the underside of a heavily used grinding stone. The discovery, reported exclusively by Arkeolojihaber, adds a new layer to our understanding of symbolic expression in the 10th…
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In Tanis, Ushabti Figurines Reveal a Pharaoh Buried Under Another’s Name
A mystery in the royal necropolis of northern Egypt has taken an unexpected turn after 225 ushabti figurines—inscribed for Pharaoh Shoshenq III—were found inside the tomb of his predecessor, Osorkon II. A new round of conservation work in the ancient city of Tanis has revealed one of the most intriguing reversals of identity in Egypt’s…
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In Kyrgyzstan’s Talas Mountains, Newly Found Sogdian Inscriptions Reveal the Voice of a Medieval Commander
Nearly 600 petroglyphs, rare clan tamgas, and two previously unknown Sogdian texts emerge from a remote mountain valley The high ridges of western Talas have long guarded their secrets. Now, a small rocky valley near the village of Bakaiyr has yielded one of the most consequential archaeological surprises of recent years: Durdana, a newly documented…
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Southern Urals Archaeologists Uncover a 4th-Century BC Ritual Complex with Bronze Mask Plaques
Archaeologists investigating the wide steppe plains of the Southern Urals have uncovered an unexpected ritual deposit dating to the 4th century BC—a discovery that sheds new light on the ceremonial life of early nomadic elites. The find comes from the inter-kurgan zone of the large necropolis known as “High Mound – Studenikin Mar,” a sprawling…
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The Earliest Neolithic Street and an 8,500-Year-Old Obsidian Mirror Discovered at Canhasan in Central Turkey
A gentle morning light still hung over the plains of Karaman when archaeologists realized they were standing on something unusual—a narrow, compacted passageway running between two early Neolithic structures. What looked at first like a simple gap in the settlement turned out to be one of the oldest known streets in Central Anatolia, dating back…
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The Noblewoman of Lake Kifisida: An Archaic-Era Tomb Reveals a Woman Buried with an Upside-Down Bronze Diadem
The quiet landscape north of Lake Kifisida has yielded one of the most evocative burials uncovered in central Greece in recent years. Archaeologists working for the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phthiotis and Evrytania have brought to light an Archaic-period cemetery in which a young noblewoman was interred with a richly decorated bronze diadem—deliberately placed on…
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A Puzzling Feature Emerges at the Ness of Brodgar—And Archaeologists Aren’t Ready to Explain It
A site once thought thoroughly excavated may be preparing to deliver one of its most intriguing surprises. On Orkney’s Ness of Brodgar, new 3D Ground Penetrating Radar scans have revealed a puzzling subsurface feature that does not resemble anything previously documented on the site. The discovery has compelled archaeologists to return to a location where…
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Japan’s Oldest Underwater Pottery Discovery Reveals a 10,000-Year-Old Technological Breakthrough Beneath Lake Biwa
It began with a sweep of robotic sensors moving silently across the dark floor of Lake Biwa. What appeared first as a faint geometric outline soon resolved into one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds in Japan’s recent history: a nearly intact pottery vessel more than 10,000 years old, resting upright in the silt.Recovered near…
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Turkey’s Taş Tepeler Reveals its Most Mysterious Neolithic Art Yet: New Faces, New Rituals, New Questions
A still-faced sculpture with a sealed mouth, unfamiliar stone portraits carved in the hills, and a double-sided bead that seems to look in two directions at once—Turkey’s Taş Tepeler region has entered a new phase of archaeological intrigue. In Şanlıurfa this week, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism introduced a set of discoveries that not…