Browsing: Archaeology

The stones that make up Stonehenge were brought from all over BritainHeritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy Stonehenge may have been built to symbolize the unity of…

An adult skull from the Charterhouse Warren mass grave in England. Characteristic cut marks and blunt fracturesIan R. Carwright/University of Oxford Institute of Archeology Some 4,000…

Satellite image showing waterways and nearby Mayan ruins that formed part of an ancient fishing industrygoogle earth Archaeologists have discovered an extensive ancient fishing network established…

A pebble with holes excavated from the ruins of Nahal Ein Geb II. Could be an ancient spindle whorlLaurent Davin A 12,000-year-old set of perforated pebbles…

Plaster statues of those who died at Pompeii. DNA testing revealed that the adult on the right was a man unrelated to the young child in…

Cylinder seal and its design engraved in clayFranck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum) The world’s oldest known writing system may have its origins in the…

Archaeologist removing excess mud from a Bronze Age plowwessex archeology A Bronze Age wooden spade has been unearthed by British archaeologists. It is extremely rare that…

Bronze Age mummies from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionWenying Lee A mysterious white substance found in a Bronze Age mummy in China has turned out to…

The hole at the top of this image is a vertical shaft to an underground waterway called a qanat.Nazari Bwavka et al. Most of the ancient…

Researchers investigate archaeological site in Greenland’s Wanderdal ValleyHuja Larsen About 4,500 years ago, around the time the Great Pyramids of Giza were built and the Indus…