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Ramesses II Inscription Offers New Clue to Egypt’s Lost City of Mesen
A massive sandstone lintel inscribed with the name of a long-lost ancient Egyptian city has emerged from excavations at Tell Abu Saifi, offering archaeologists one of their strongest clues yet to the possible location of Mesen. The discovery was made near East Qantara in Egypt’s Ismailia Governorate, where an Egyptian archaeological mission is investigating a…
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2,000-Year-Old Woman Found Buried in Possible Ritual Well at Iron Age Settlement in Scotland
Archaeologists working ahead of a quarry expansion in northern Scotland have uncovered the remains of a woman inside an unusually elaborate stone-lined structure dating to the Iron Age. The approximately 2,000-year-old burial was discovered at Evelix Quarry near Dornoch in Sutherland, where traces of what may have been an Iron Age settlement are also emerging.…
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A 2,500-Year-Old Statue of a Long-Haired Young Man Emerges from Beneath a Roman Street at Sardis
Roman builders at Sardis once laid a monumental marble statue face down beneath a colonnaded street. Centuries later, that act of reuse helped preserve the young man’s face, long hair and clothing in remarkable detail. The statue was uncovered during excavations at the ancient city in western Türkiye’s Manisa Province. Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and…