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A treasure trove hiding beneath an Iranian mosque

Multi-season archaeological program near Isfahan's historic center reveals decorated water structures, pottery kilns, and extensive coin assemblage.

The coins found.
View of the Winged Lion in Venice from the Piazza San Marco.

Scientists just solved a mystery that has puzzled Venice for over 700 years

Illustration: cows grazing.

This massive bone study reveals the exact moment humans changed animal evolution forever

Ruins of the Igreja do Carmo in Lisbon, ruined by the 1755 earthquake in Portugal.

Scientists find massive crack under Atlantic that could spark devastating earthquakes soon


Medusa in Perugia: Mystery in an Etruscan tomb challenges ideas on ancient funerals

High-ranking Acsi family burial from 3rd century BCE contains deliberate arrangement of simple pottery instead of expected human remains.

The new Medusa relief found in the urn.

When the Mediterranean nearly vanished: study reveals kilometric sea-level swings

New modeling shows that river erosion and climate drove dramatic rises and falls in the basin’s water during the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Illustration: the Mediterranean as we currently know it.

The first kebab? 3,000-year-old meat oven discovered in Turkey

Francesca Balossi Restelli: "They put the meat inside, covered it with a baked clay lid, and cooked it for hours, even all night."

Arslantepe.

From 1.1M years ago to Wrangel’s last mammoths: microbes that endured through time

Research from steppe mammoths to the last woolly mammoths shows microbial lineages coexisted across hundreds of thousands of years and wide regions until their extinction 4,000 years ago.

Mammoth foot found in Siberia, Russia.

No danger, says NASA: Airplane-sized asteroid buzzed Earth at 28,000 mph

2025 QD8, measuring 17-38 meters in diameter, passed within 218,000 kilometers of Earth at 57% of the Moon's distance with no collision threat, streamed live by Virtual Telescope Project.

The orbit of 2025 QV5 around the Sun brings it close to Earth and Venus. For most of the next century, the asteroid will pass closer to Venus more often

LiDAR-found “Lost Cities” May Never Have Been Lost at All, Scholars Warn

A wave of archaeological discoveries hailed as ‘lost cities found’ may reveal less about the ancient world than about how modern information circulation.

The Amazon rainforest.

Hidden for millennia, this 3D mural is unlike anything seen in Peruvian archaeology

The six-meter-long mural was part of a temple atrium and showcases rare decorative techniques from over 3,000 years ago.

The shocking mural uncovered.

Egyptian doctor's elaborate smuggling scheme unraveled at JFK airport

Ashraf Omar El-Darir sentenced to six months in jail for smuggling 600+ antiquities worth $82,000, including golden amulets and Roman artifacts dating to 1900 BCE.

Some of the artefacts smuggled.

Archaeologists uncover site that could be older than Göbeklitepe

Second year excavations at Mendik Tepe reveal buildings of varying sizes with smaller, non T-shaped standing stones that differ from famous Neolithic monuments.

The Ancient Site of Gobekli Tepe, currently considered the oldest temple in the world.

3,800-year-old sculpture found in Peru reveals ancient civilization's desperate plea for survival

Clay figure of two joined toads painted red and black discovered at Vichama archaeological site represents fertility cult and social appeal for change during climate-driven crisis.

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Iraq's water crisis reveals ancient secrets buried for 2,300 years

Drought at Mosul Dam reservoir exposes 40 Hellenistic-era tombs with clay coffins near lost city ruins, as water levels drop to lowest since 1933 due to regional water shortages.

A tomb recently uncovered by Kurdish archaeologists near the Mosul dam.