Archeaology

Archaeologists working near Qumran in Israel have found a cave that previously contained Dead Sea scrolls. They now suggest ‘the cave should be numbered as Cave 12, along with the 11 caves previously known to have housed the famous manuscripts.’ Fault cliff and entrance to Cave 12. Image credit: Casey …

A team of archaeologists led by Geoffrey Braswell, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, has found a remarkable artifact at a Maya archaeological site in Belize: a large piece of carved jade once belonging to an ancient Maya king. The Maya jade pendant is inscribed with …

A team of archaeologists from the the University of Haifa has discovered a large theater and a public bathhouse at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Hippos-Sussita in Israel. Roman theater at Hippos-Sussita; the results of the trial excavation: semicircular passage between the lower and upper seating arrangements …

Researchers have uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image at Abri Blanchard, an Upper Paleolithic site of the Aurignacian culture — a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western Eurasia. Limestone block engraved with an aurochs. Image credit: P. Jugie, Musée National de Préhistoire Collections. The …

A team of Tel Aviv University archaeologists has uncovered a gatehouse and associated livestock pens — dating to the reign of Kings Solomon and David (10th century BC) — at the Slaves’ Hill, one of the largest copper smelting camps in Timna Valley, Israel. The team’s research appears in the Journal …

Arizona State University Professor Sherry Towers has examined the Sun Temple archaeological site at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and found evidence that the site was laid out with a Golden rectangle, equilateral and Pythagorean 3:4:5 triangles. The researcher has also found evidence of a common unit of measurement underlying …

A large manor has been found at the archaeological site of Korshamn near the Viking Age proto-town of Birka in Sweden. Artist’s impression of the Viking Age manor at Korshamn, Sweden. Image credit: Jacques Vincent. “This kind of Viking period high status manors has previously only been identified at a …

An unusual limestone rock found at an archaeological site in Croatia indicates that Neanderthals were capable of incorporating symbolic objects into their culture. ‘Clam-shell’ view of Side A (top) and B showing black dendrites against the background of the brown mudstone. The flake, only shown re-attached on Side A, is …

Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern Yukon, Canada. Top: cut marks on a horse mandible from Bluefish Cave II; the specimen is dated to 19,650 years before present; the bone surface is a …

Archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology working at Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, have uncovered a wealth of Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds, as well as shed light on the origins of Cherry Hinton itself. The Anglo-Saxon claw beaker. Image credit: Oxford Archaeology. The archaeological team, working on behalf of CgMs and …