3+ hour, 3+ min ago  (350+ words) Italy has placed one of the best surviving works of Etruscan art on public display after bringing the famous Fran'ois Tomb frescoes into state ownership. The painted panels, created between 340 and 320 BCE, now belong to the National Etruscan Museum of…...

16+ hour, 20+ min ago  (508+ words) Nearly 2, 000 years after Mount Vesuvius buried the Roman town of Herculaneum, researchers have read an ancient scroll without physically opening it. Using advanced X-ray scans and artificial intelligence, they recovered the full surviving text from a sealed papyrus for the…...

21+ hour, 17+ min ago  (338+ words) The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found no solid evidence that Clovis hunters used the atlatl. Instead, the study suggests the weapon likely appeared in western North America around 10, 000 years ago, several thousand years…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (429+ words) Archaeologists working at the Case Pente site near Sulmona, Italy, have uncovered a large prehistoric village, an ancient cemetery, and a Roman bath complex during one of the biggest preventive archaeology projects carried out in the Abruzzo region in recent…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (515+ words) Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a large settlement from the Second Intermediate Period at Tell el-Ku'a in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta. The site includes tombs, homes, storage areas, ovens, and work spaces. Together, these finds offer a rare look at daily…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (538+ words) Where the Dead Sea Scrolls come from: AI and chemical analysis trace origins Archaeology News Online Magazine Where the Dead Sea Scrolls come from: AI and chemical analysis trace origins A new international research project is set to tackle one…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (486+ words) Bronze Age boat carvings found on rocks in Spain and Portugal suggest people living along Europe's Atlantic coast shared ideas, technology, and beliefs across long sea routes more than 3, 000 years ago. A new study compared prehistoric boat carvings, known as…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (749+ words) by Layla Tiseo, The Conversation " Roughly 27, 500 years ago, a 15-year-old boy was brutally mauled by a bear in Arene Candide in today's Liguria, Italy. The attack tore through his jaw, neck and left shoulder. He was dying, but he was…...

4+ day, 51+ min ago  (382+ words) Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a large Viking Age production site that supplied textiles and other goods to one of the region's main trade centers over 1, 000 years ago. The site sits near S'ften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (396+ words) A stone quarry along South Australia's Murray River supplied Aboriginal communities for at least 7, 000 years, according to a new study from Flinders University and the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation. The research gives the first detailed look at the…...