Far below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia lies an extraordinary gallery of rock art. Exploration and research in Koonalda Cave has revealed…
Rocky Cappadocia played a significant role in the history of Byzantium, yet little is known of this remote area. Eric Cooper explores…
For nearly 5,000 years, the sanctuary site at Tas-Silġ lured worshippers to its idyllic island setting overlooking the blue waters of the…
Archaeologists in Cologne are completing the city’s biggest project of its kind ahead of construction for a new railway network. When it…
Ancient Egypt’s oldest iron artefacts were made from meteorite, new research has confirmed. The 9 small, tubular beads were found in graves…
Temple trivia from around the world.…
A rare collection of Islamic medical manuscripts has gone on display for the first time, illuminating medical traditions that developed in the…
Detailed analysis of a 2,000-year-old bronze warship ram has shed new light on how the object was created and used. Discovered by…
Ongoing excavations at Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in America, have revealed grisly evidence that within months of establishing the…
Excavations in Switzerland have revealed the first intact Neolithic burial chamber north of the Alps. The dolmen, at Oberbipp in the Canton…
Analysis of some of the world’s earliest pots has revealed that Ice Age hunter-gatherers enjoyed a fish supper. An international team of…
New research on the remains of ‘Oetzi’, the world’s oldest wet mummy, has revealed that his violent death was not the only…
Environmental workers have made an unexpected discovery while preparing a building on the site of Hanford’s Cold War-era nuclear reactor in Washington…