Archaeologists revealed more wonders of the ancient world in 2022. They ranged from a 3,400-year-old lost city, ancient pots of cheese, and dead rats that told a story. 12 of the most fascinating ...
Compiling a list of the top archaeological finds in a given year is always a weird exercise in time dilation. I’m tasked with revisiting past lives through the art, shipwrecks, and bones left behind.
You can imagine the scene: visitors and residents alike, watching the sun set over the Santa Barbara coastline, as silhouettes of the Channel Islands float on the horizon, fishing boats bob in the ...
Stele of the Falcon God and the Head; scale = 30 cm (K. Braulińska; drawing by O.E. Kaper). Credit: American Journal of Archaeology (2022). DOI: 10.1086/720806 Stele of the Falcon God and the Head; ...
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—According to a Live Science report, Ella Karev of the University of Chicago suggests that 10 branding irons now held in the collections of the British Museum and the Petrie Museum of ...
Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn’t until last December that someone ...
BURDUR, TURKEY—According to an Anadolu Agency report, a 2,000-year-old monumental fountain in southwestern Turkey’s ancient city of Kibyra has been restored. The 26-foot-tall fountain features two ...
Compiling a list of the top archaeological finds in a given year is always a weird exercise in time dilation. I’m tasked with revisiting past lives through the art, shipwrecks, and bones left behind.
Top two: the two sides of Tutankhamun’s dagger. Bottom: the dagger as it was photographed in 1925. Image: T. Matsui et al./Meteorit. Planet. Sci. X-ray scans of an ornate dagger from Tutankhamun’s ...
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