When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
The team behind a large geophysical survey in Sitka, south-east Alaska, believe they have identified the location of a 19th-century Tlingit fort,…
The Saqqara necropolis, located 30km west of Cairo, is home to a wealth of ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids. The burial ground…
Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…
Survey and excavation in a remote region of Mongolia are revealing a wealth of information about an extraordinary concentration of rock art.…
At a time of great climatic and environmental change during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, humans entered the western…
Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II (c.1558–1553 BC) ruled southern Egypt at the end of the 17th Dynasty, during a time when the northern part of…
It is not unknown for children to try to outdo their parents. When it comes to tombs, though, pharaoh Khufu must have…
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – these days the Penn Museum – was conceived in the late 19th…
The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on microevolution in an early hominin species, as…
A project looking at the history of crops in prehistoric China has identified differences in regional diets and changes over time, which…
The remains of two individuals who died during the eruption of Vesuvius have been found at a suburban villa near Pompeii.…
An ongoing study in the Makran Sefidkuh region of Iran is shedding light on the culture and archaeological remains of communities in…