Archeaology

Archaeologists in Greece have unearthed what they believe are the remnants of the long-lost ancient city of Tenea. An aerial view of the archaeological excavation site near Chiliomodi, Greece. Image credit: Greek Culture Ministry. Tenea was an ancient Greek (then Roman) city founded in the 12th or 13th century BC. …

Cave paintings in Lubang Jeriji Saléh, a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago. A rock painting of a wild bovid from Borneo. Image credit: Pindi Setiawan. Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 …

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Archaeologists have made an amazing finding of a human drawing that goes back more than 70,000 years, making it the oldest human drawing ever found. The finding, published in Nature, was made in Blombos Cave, which lies on the southern coast of South Africa. The research was led by Teacher …

An international team of archaeologists from the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, Egypt, and the University of Liverpool, UK, has discovered an ancient ramp system used to haul massive alabaster blocks out of a quarry. The remains of the 4,500-year-old ramp were found at the site of Hatnub, …

An international team of scientists has found that the upper Amazon region gave birth to the domesticated Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate is made. Zarrillo et al report the earliest evidence of cacao use in the Americas and the first archaeological example of its pre-Columbian use in South …

A team of archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) has uncovered keratin ‘teeth’ of lamprey at a site near Mansion House station in London, the United Kingdom. Lamprey in Sala Maremagnum of Aquarium Finisterrae in Corunna, Galicia, Spain. Image credit: Drow Male / CC BY-SA 3.0. Lampreys are …

Perhaps among the world’s finest known fossils is Archaeopteryx. With its magnificently preserved plumes, it has long been considered the very first bird in the fossil record, and is often called “ the icon of evolution”. Just a handful of specimens have ever been found, its elusivity including to its …

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists have uncovered a 1,700-year-old floor mosaic at the city of Lod (ancient Lydda). The newly-discovered mosaic floor of a Roman-era villa. Image credit: Niki Davidov, Israel Antiquities Authority. In 1996, a routine archaeological inspection carried out in Lod and the subsequent rescue excavations, directed by the …

Through excavation of the Debra L. Friedkin site northwest of Austin, Texas, a team of archaeologists has identified a particular style of projectile point dated between 13,500 and 15,500 years ago — this is earlier than typical Clovis-style technologies dated to 13,000 years ago. A 15,000-year-old stemmed point at the …