The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin are adjacent to the site of a dry ancient lakebed where scientists have discovered human and animal trackways dating to ...
An aerial view of Peru’s Moche Valley shows Chan Chan, a massive city constructed beginning in the early eleventh century A.D. by the rulers of the Kingdom of Chimor, leaders of a people known as the ...
Bernardo Arriaza of the University of Tarapacá thinks that the Chinchorro people may have developed the practice of artificial mummification as a response to grief brought about by high infant ...
According to an Ahram Online report, excavations at connected sites in northern Egypt’s western Nile Delta have uncovered an industrial area at Kom Wasit that was in use as early as the fifth century ...
According to a statement released by Goethe University Frankfurt, a building complex at the Gird-î Kazhaw site in northern Iraq has been identified as a Christian church and possible monastery by ...
The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...
Two kilns have been unearthed at a well-preserved pottery workshop within the Dinka Settlement Complex in northern Iraq, according to a statement released by the University of Tübingen. The workshop ...
According to a statement released by Texas Tech University, a team of archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas ...
The Anadolu Agency reports that excavations at Syedra, a 3,000-year-old city site on Turkey’s southern coastline, suggest it ...
EL-ʿIRAQ, JORDAN—Archaeologists believe they have rediscovered the lost Byzantine city of Tharais in southern Jordan, […] ...
A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...
In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...