Researchers studying 5,300-year-old ‘Oetzi’ have found traces of blood, the oldest red blood cells ever recovered, showing he died shortly after his…
Greek archaeologists picketed a recent auction of antiquities at a London auction house in protest against cuts to state heritage services in…
Humans used fire a million years ago – more than 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a team led by…
Excavations in Jordan have unearthed 20,000-year-old huts that could reshape our view of how humans lived before the development of agriculture. The…
Lost fragments of an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been rediscovered in Australia. On a visit to Queensland Museum, British…
The Titanic has been granted official protection from unscientific exploration by UNESCO. According to the UN’s cultural agency, over 700 divers have…
As we go to press, a third man has been arrested in connection with the theft of 18 Chinese artefacts from the…
Five years ago, CWA reported on the discovery of the oldest rock art found in North Africa (CWA 24). Dirk Huyge and…
The discovery of a 13th-century priestess at a ritual site in northern Peru is forcing a reassessment of the role of women…
In Füllinsdorf, archaeologists have announced the discovery of the largest hoard of Iron Age silver coins ever to be found in Switzerland.…
Archaeologists have unearthed several thousand silver objects, buried 1,000 years ago in Gotland, Sweden. This is the second substantial hoard to have…
Archaeological investigations have unearthed an Iron Age hoard during the construction of a new highway near the modern village of Tartaria in…