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 ...

We may dream of winning the lottery, but what about finding a medieval-era wedding ring in your yard, or a Byzantine-era mosaic on your farm? Everyday people joined archaeologists and art conservators ...

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.

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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 ...

A preserved plate in the House of the Lararium. Photo: Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii Pompeii’s Regio V is the gift that keeps on giving. Last year, excavations in the ancient Roman ...