Ancient history
Ancient tomb linked to King Midas’ family sheds new light on ancient kingdom
Discovered in 2010 and excavated since 2013, the tomb dates back to the ancient kingdom of Phrygia (1200 to 675 BCE), but is located more than 100 miles west of Gordion, the kingdom’s capital.
'Grandpa, look what we found': Huckabee family uncovers ancient coins in West Bank caves
Archaeologists find Switzerland’s oldest gold coins dating back 2,200 years
New frescoes unearthed in villa near Pompeii show 'extraordinary details and colors'
9,750-year-old ‘street’ found in Central Anatolia’s Canhasan 3 mound
Turkish excavations reveal 8-meter-long street structure and systematic passages providing settlement access, showing sophisticated urban planning in pre-pottery Neolithic period.
A 12,000-year-old cold case: is this earliest murder recorded in Southeast Asia?
"TBH1 lived for several months after the injury occurred," the researchers wrote, adding that without effective treatment the fracture likely led to infection and death within weeks or months.
8,500-year-old village frozen in time: rising seas reveal a rare archaeological site in Denmark
€13.2 million EU-funded project recovers artifacts from submerged Mesolithic settlement, preserved in oxygen-free sediments after rapid sea level rise forced ancient communities inland.
Did farming begin outside the Fertile Crescent? 9,200-year-old grains found in Uzbek cave
Stone tools and ancient grains in a cave in Uzbekistan tell a new story.
Lost for centuries: Ottoman shipwreck packed with swords, pipes, and royal seals
A winter storm, a fiery end - and an underwater museum waiting to be opened.
Buried beneath Jerusalem: a massive First Temple dam and the ancient climate crisis that sparked it
A mystery of ancient engineering revealed - was this the answer to Judah’s worst drought?
Only the second of its kind: what this ancient seal reveals about Yaroslav the Wise
Experts are calling it one of the oldest Russian seals ever found.
Elite roman tomb found after 2,000 years - could it reveal the identity of a forgotten power player
The grave may belong to someone close to Emperor Augustus, and it still holds its secrets.
Lost Egyptian city rises from the deep
Divers uncover sunken treasures and a forgotten harbor from ancient Canopus off the coast of Alexandria.
Ancient interbreeding secret: why Indigenous Americans carry a disease-fighting Denisovan gene
One in three people of mexican ancestry carries the variant, which reached modern humans via neanderthals.
