DNA Reveals Hidden Bond Between Hawaiʻi and Easter Island, 7,000 Kilometers Apart
Hawaiʻi and Easter Island are about 7,000 kilometers apart, farther than New York is from Rome. Yet a new genetic study suggests the people of these two remote…
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90-Year-Old Photos Reveal an Unusual Burial Secret in a Byzantine Church
Nearly 90 years after archaeologists photographed a Byzantine church in Israel’s Negev Desert, two forgotten images have revealed an unusual burial tradition with no known parallel in the…
A Child’s Tomb With 32 Mysterious Offerings Discovered in Peru
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered an unusual Moche tomb containing 32 funerary offerings, among them ceramic figures of a bird-like deity and a prisoner with a rope around…
Shepherd Discovers an Extremely Rare Mongol-Era Shield
A shepherd crossing the Uybat steppe in southern Siberia noticed something unusual after heavy rain had cut into the ground. An iron object was protruding from the side…
Italian Teenagers Sneaked Into Their School and Found an 1,800-Year-Old Roman House Beneath the Gym
In 2021, a group of teenagers in Rome decided to spend the night inside their school as part of a protest against continued remote learning during the Covid-19…
Several-Thousand-Year-Old 300-Square-Meter House Discovered in Norway
Archaeologists excavating one of Norway’s most remarkable prehistoric landscapes have uncovered the remains of a large longhouse covering roughly 300 square meters, along with traces of at least…
More Than 430 Shipwrecks Are Rewriting the Maritime History of Ancient Anatolia
More than 430 shipwrecks have now been documented along Türkiye’s Mediterranean coast, revealing the extraordinary scale of an underwater archaeological landscape that spans thousands of years of trade,…
Fire Reveals Mysterious Stone Stairway Beside an Ancient Route in Ecuador
A wildfire on Cerro Casitagua, north of Quito, has revealed an archaeological feature that had been hidden beneath dense vegetation: a short stairway carved directly into the rock.…
A Church Was Built Around This Ancient Ruler Carved Into Rock
In northern Sudan, a life-size figure carved into granite has outlived kingdoms, religions and generations of local memory. The mysterious image may represent an ancient Nubian ruler, yet…
Archaeologists Discover 31 Previously Unknown Petroglyphs in Russia’s Remote Arctic
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…
