Archeaology

1,400-Year-Old Colorful Christian Mosaic Found in Israel

A team of Israeli archaeologists has uncovered an impressively detailed mosaic in an ancient city called Hippos-Sussita. Dating back approximately 1,400 years to the Byzantine period, the mosaic once sat on a church floor and may depict one of Jesus’ most famous miracles — ‘Feeding of the 5,000.’ The fragment …

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16,000-Year-Old Stone Artifacts Unearthed in Idaho

Archaeologists have uncovered almost two hundred stone artifacts, including projectile points and flake tools, and bone fragments from large mammals at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho, the United States. The discovery suggests that humans lived in the area 16,000 years ago, more than a thousand years earlier than …

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8,000-Year-Old Wooden Platform Found Off Isle of Wight

Underwater archaeologists working off the coast of the Isle of Wight have discovered an 8,000-year-old structure next to what is believed to be the world’s oldest known boat building site. Historian Dan Snow inspecting the 8,000-year-old wooden platform off the coast of the Isle of Wight, UK. Image credit: Maritime …

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Archaeologists Unearth 45,000-Year-Old Stone Tools in Mongolia

A collection of stone artifacts unearthed at the archaeological site of Tolbor-16 in the northern Khangai Mountains of Mongolia indicate that anatomically modern Homo sapiens traveled across the Eurasian steppe 45,000 years ago, about 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. The Tolbor-16 site (arrow) in the western flank of the …

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Archaeologists Unearth Norse-Period Hall in Scotland

A team of researchers from the Archaeology Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands has unearthed the remains of a large Norse building at the site of Skaill farmstead in Westness, Rousay, a small island about two miles (3 km) north of Mainland, the largest island in the …

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Archaeologists Locate Long-Lost Biblical City of Ziklag

Archaeologists believe they have found the lost Philistine city of Ziklag, where young David lived when he fled from King Saul. They said they had discovered the remains of the 3,000-year-old settlement near the modern town of Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. An aerial view of the archaeological site of …

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Archaeologists Unearth 9,000-Year-Old Settlement in Israel

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered the remains of a large Neolithic-period settlement near the modern town of Motza, about 3 miles (5 km) west from Jerusalem. An aerial view of the Neolithic-period settlement near Motza, Israel. Image credit: Eyal Marco, Israel Antiquities Authority. “This is the …

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115,000-Year-Old Engraved Bones Found in China

Archaeologists digging at an early hominin site in China have discovered two engraved bone fragments that date back nearly 115,000 years. Photographs of the two engraved bone fragments from the site of Lingjing, China. Image credit: F. d’Errico L. Doyon. The two weathered bone fragments were found at the site …

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