19+ hour, 28+ min ago  (636+ words) The 2, 800-year-old "amran Canal in Van, built by Urartian King Minua, still carries the story of Queen Tariria, a royal garden, and one of ancient Anatolia's greatest waterworks. In eastern T'rkiye, the "amran Canal is more than an ancient waterway....

18+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1015+ words) New research at Haughey's Fort reveals a vast Bronze Age landscape with 204 possible buildings, metalworking, feasting, long-distance exchange, and ritual activity. Long before Navan Fort became famous in Irish tradition as the royal seat of ancient Ulster, another center of…...

18+ hour, 57+ min ago  (527+ words) A new international research project will try to answer one of the most persistent questions in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship: where were these ancient manuscripts actually produced and copied? The goal is not to "decode" the scrolls. Many of the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (602+ words) An ancient shipwreck carrying more than 300 amphorae has been identified off the Ionian coast of Calabria, offering a rare underwater glimpse into the maritime trade of Magna Graecia more than 2, 400 years ago. The discovery was first identified in 2023 and later…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (682+ words) Ancient boats carved into rocks along the Atlantic edge of Spain and Portugal may preserve evidence of a far wider Bronze Age world than previously assumed. A new study suggests that some of these Iberian petroglyphs share striking details with…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (993+ words) Archaeologists in Veracruz have uncovered a pre-Hispanic monolith that appears to record a rare ritual scene: two seated elite figures, richly dressed, receiving a flowing substance in a vessel from a divine being shown above them. The carved stone monument…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1016+ words) Two violently killed men found beside six deer antlers at Cerro de las Cabezas in Spain reveal a rare "bad death" ritual in the Iberian world. Archaeologists in central Spain have identified one of the most unusual deposits ever recorded…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (996+ words) A writing system used in Bronze Age Iran, unread for more than a century, may now be closer than ever to being understood. French archaeologist Fran'ois Desset, working with an international team of scholars, has reported major progress in deciphering…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1100+ words) More than 3, 200 years ago, a royal marriage in the eastern Mediterranean ended so badly that it required an imperial decree, a viceroy's ruling, negotiations between kingdoms, clauses about dowry, and even rules about who could inherit the throne. The divorce…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (754+ words) Archaeologists working at B'kl'kale in central T'rkiye have uncovered a stamp seal decorated with two animal figures, a small but potentially important find that may belong to the late Karum period or the Early Hittite period. The discovery was made…...