Discovery

Excavations revealed architectural and industrial evidence confirming continuous Egyptian mining activity at Wadi al-Nasb from the Old Kingdom through the Late Period, officials said.

Published in PLOS One, the Stone Dead Project finds many grave tools were unused or broken, suggesting ritual offerings across the eastern Baltic at a site with 330 burials from 7,500–2,500 BC.

“This year we can talk about the year of the elephant. From 2018 until now, we had identified two skulls, but only this year did we find three” described an archeologist.

The sandstone slab, uncovered in the temple complex at Tell Far'oun in Al-Husseiniyah, measures 127.5 by 83 by about 48 centimeters and carries 30 lines of hieroglyphs.

Archaeologists found 222 bronze pipes, bells, and other objects hidden by Crusaders. Built in 11th-century France for Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the organ will go to Terra Sancta Museum.

Grain and coal hauler built in 1867 discovered spread across lake floor like puzzle pieces after crew abandoned ship in thick fog.

121 Bronze Age gold artifacts from Cluj County include unique ring design with no known parallels in Romanian archaeological record.

High-resolution scans show rectangular stones and right-angled structures 20 meters below surface that expedition team says survived ancient tsunami.

Undergraduate Katie Joss discovers medieval carved head at Skaill Farm on Scottish island, likely from historic St. Mary's Church.

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

Archaeologists uncover a vast Byzantine-era agricultural villa with intricate mosaics, oil press, and ritual bath in central Israel.