Far beyond the Arctic Circle, in one of the most difficult archaeological landscapes in Eurasia, researchers have uncovered new traces of a prehistoric world carved into stone. During…
A handful of silver coins found in a forest near the Baltic coast has reopened a much larger story — one that stretches from the Islamic world to…
For thousands of years, ships and human figures lay almost invisible across the granite at Trättelanda in western Sweden. Now a new survey inside the Tanum World Heritage…
High on a rocky mountainside in central Mexico, three faded red paintings are adding unexpected pieces to one of Mesoamerica’s enduring puzzles: how the people of Teotihuacan wrote.…
On the second-to-last day of an archaeological excavation in Greenland, researchers finally found what they had been searching for: a human skeleton. The discovery sparked celebrations among the…
For more than 30 years, archaeologists excavating Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye have faced a disturbing puzzle. Among the ruins of its monumental stone buildings, they kept finding fragments…
Soldiers searching for landmines on a mountain in South Korea stumbled upon something entirely unexpected: a small bronze weapon that had been lying beneath the soil for centuries.…
Long before Roman vineyards spread across Spain, Phoenician sailors were carrying something across the Mediterranean that would change the peninsula’s agricultural history: grapevines. A new genetic study has…
Some 18,000 years ago, an Ice Age artist picked up a piece of mammoth ivory and began carving a small human figure. The finished object was covered in…
A line of walls cutting across a rocky spur in northwestern Morocco has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century. Now, new excavations at Oued Beht suggest that what…
