Category: Archaeology

Secrets of a Civilization That Time Forgot

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The Lost Cities Still Hiding Beneath Our Feet

Ritual bathing in the Fountain House. Credit: D. Porotsky; courtesy the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem in Tsfania-Zias 2025

Ancient Temple Unearthed in Israel Reveals Secret Rituals of Purification

Peruvian gas workers discovered the mummy of a boy believed to be over 1,000 years old while installing pipes in Lima.

1,000-Year-Old Mummy Unearthed Beneath Lima Street

Examples of anthropogenically modified faunal specimens and bone tools. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07612-9

Denisovans Lived in the Himalayas for Over 150,000 Years

Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, providing the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas. Credit: Cornell University

Scientists Uncover 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in the American Southwest

Dargan Shelter, Blue Mountains. Credit: Dr Amy Way

Ancient Cave Discovery Proves Humans Lived in Australia’s Frozen Highlands

On the River Yelogui, a tributary of the Yenisei in Siberia. A few speakers of a Yenisei language, Ket, still live in the region. The language of the European Huns belonged to the same language family. Credit: Edward Vajda

The Lost Language of the Huns Speaks Again Through New Linguistic Discovery

The sperm whale tooth is the first of its kind found in Copper Age Iberia. Credit: PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323773

This Ancient Whale Tooth Was Buried for 5000 Years and Its Story Is Astonishing

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Secrets of the Grave Unearthed Across Medieval Europe

An idealized illustration of the Xiaohe burials with two types of posts. Left) Oval shaped end with extrusions. Right) Rounded end without extrusions. Credit: Asian Archaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s41826-025-00105-2

Ancient Boat Coffins Unearthed in the Desert Reveal Secrets of a Forgotten Civilization

Hoard area in the port section of the stern, showing the obverse and reverse faces of coins, as they were observed on the seabed. Credit: ARC-DIMAR, 2022; image by authors

Coins Found in Deep Sea Shipwreck Reveal Secrets of the Lost San José Galleon

Fujia archaeological site and ancient and present-day populations associated with Fujia. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09103-x

DNA Reveals 4,500-Year-Old Matrilineal Society in Neolithic China

The location of BG1 in Workshop B of the Chega Sofla cemetery and its rectangular structure (A and B). A view of the multiple-burial grave BG1 and the individuals buried within it (C). Western part of BG1 and location of BG1.12 (D); the burial of BG1.12 (E) (archive of Zohreh Prehistoric Project). Credit: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/oa.3415

Skull of a Young Girl Tells a Haunting Story from 6,200 Years Ago

Decorated terracotta relief with a 'Mediterraneanizing' style. Credit: Antiquity (2025). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.48

Ancient Spain Reveals a Hidden Power in Mediterranean Culture

Computer simulated paths of Neanderthal dispersals demonstrate they could have reached the Altai Mountains in Siberia within 2,000 years during warm climatic conditions in one of two ancient time periods—MIS 5e (approximately 125,000 years ago) or MIS 3 (approximately 60,000 years ago)—as demonstrated by the three different possible paths shown here. These paths follow a northern route through the Ural Mountains and southern Siberia, often intersecting with known archaeological sites from the same time periods. Credit: Emily Coco and Radu Iovita

Neanderthals Crossed 2,000 Miles Through Ice Age Eurasia and Left Behind a Hidden Legacy

Left: Silver Ewer, (collection Rijksmuseum, inv. NG-NM-583). Right: Silver Basin, (collection: Rijksmuseum, inv. NG-NM-582). Credit: van Bennekom et al. 2025

The Truth Behind the Legendary Silver Basin of Admiral Piet Heyn’s Victory

Inquest number 15 on 1336–7 City of London Coroner's Rolls (in CLA/041/IQ/01/006). Credit: The London Archives.

The Vengeful Noblewoman Behind a 688-Year-Old Priest’s Murder

Credit: Kovács 1995, Abb. 1/A, 2-3 és Dani János et al. 2025

New Research Uncovers Dietary and Social Transformations in Central Europe Around 1500 BC

Graphical representation of the team's results. By comparing word usage and sentence patterns, their AI-based statistical model identified three distinct writing styles, or scribal traditions, shown here in yellow, blue and green. Credit: Faigenbaum-Golovin et al.

Researchers Use AI to Solve Ancient Mystery of Bible’s Authors

A map of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and the Sunda region as it appeared roughly 25,000 years ago at the height of the last Ice Age, with locations of archaeological sites surveyed by the Mindoro Archaeology Project. The sites yielded artifacts with remarkably similar characteristics despite separation by thousands of kilometers and deep waters that are almost impossible to cross without sufficiently advanced seafaring knowledge and technology. Credit: Base Map: gebco.net, 2014

Archaeologists Uncover 35,000-Year-Old Maritime Connections in the Philippines

Raised agricultural beds cover an estimated 70% of the lidar survey area at Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River. Credit: Madeleine McLeester.

Ancient Farming Practices Unearthed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

The new study combines ancient DNA analysis with archaeological and linguistic findings. Together, they paint a vivid picture of the pre-colonial societies that once inhabited the country's coastal regions. Illustration by Papua New Guinean artist Arison Kul. Credit: Arison Kul for MPI-EVA

Papua New Guinea’s Ancient DNA Unlocks the Origins of Oceanic Peoples

The remains of female UPT90 sk 1278. (0.10 m scale). Credit: Museum of London Archaeology in Mant et al. 2025

Beaten and Displayed the Forgotten Execution of a Woman in Early Medieval London

This image provided by William Usaquen and Andrea Casas-Vargas shows the high plains in Bogota, Colombia where a new group of humans lived 6,000 years ago. Credit: William Usaquen, Andrea Casas-Vargas via AP

Lost Ancestors of the Americas: Ancient DNA Reveals a Forgotten Human Lineage in Colombia

From this type of sample, ancient DNA techniques enable the reconstruction of human and pathogen genomes from the past. In the back, a Wiphala flag representing Indigenous communities of South America. Credit: Nicolas Rascovan, Institut Pasteur

Leprosy Lived in the Americas Long Before Europeans Set Foot There

Geographic and temporal framework of the analyzed ancient and modern individuals. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads6284

Ancient People of Colombia Vanished 2,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

Skull. Credit: Sergey V. Semenov

DNA from 7,500-Year-Old Hunter-Gatherers Redraws the Map of Early Human Migrations

Triptyque de la confrérie de Sainte-Anne à Louvain. Credit: Quinten Metsys, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

How Medieval Stories of the Virgin Mary Gave Hope to the Infertile

Researchers look over a platform monument, the largest type of monuments studied, which were made by mulitple individuals, usually at one time. Credit: The Ohio State University

Ancient Monuments in the Desert Reveal 7,000 Years of Human Resilience and Adaptation