Fishing Spear Found in Latvian Lake Could Be 11,000 Years Old
Archaeologists investigating Latvia’s Lake Indzers have recovered a prehistoric fishing spear that may be thousands of years older than a nearby island settlement. Their excavations…
Ancient Settlements
Beyond Göbekli Tepe’s Giant Pillars, Archaeologists May Have Found 10,000-Year-Old Homes
Göbekli Tepe is known around the world for its giant T-shaped pillars and monumental buildings. But new excavations may have uncovered 10,000-year-old homes, offering a…
2,000-Year-Old Hillfort in Estonia Reveals a Short-Lived Settlement Shaped by Conflict
A 2,000-year-old hillfort in Estonia is reshaping how archaeologists understand early settlement patterns in the Baltic region. Identified near Kambja in Tartu County, the Köstrimägi…
Archaeologists Unearth 6,000 Years of Human History in Chechnya—from Ritual Altars to Bronze Age Metal Workshops
A vast archaeological investigation in southern Russia has revealed an unexpectedly dense landscape of human activity stretching back more than 6,000 years—uncovering ritual spaces, early…
Layers Beneath the Rice Fields: Ancient Artifacts Reveal Millennia of Life in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh Highlands
Archaeologists working in Vietnam’s central highlands have identified a dense concentration of ancient artifacts buried beneath active rice fields in Ha Tinh province—a discovery that…
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…