• Puppy and toddler found in 2,000-year-old burial
The ancient puppy's collar had a bell on it.
The ancient puppy's collar had a bell on it.
Archaeologists unearthed amazing swords, daggers and other weaponry this year.
The discovery of more than 100 sealed coffins containing mummies, at the Saqqara archaeological site in Egypt, was one of the biggest archaeology stories of 2020.(Image: © Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)With the pandemic and accompanying econom
A man wearing a protective mask passes by the Coliseum in Rome on March 7, 2020, amid fear of the COVID-19 epidemic.(Image: © Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images)The COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic recession it has fostered, loom large over
A Pyxis, or circular box for containing makeup, 470-460 BC. Attica. The vessel shows the marriage of Thetis and Peleus. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsIn the modern world of today we are privileged to take for granted that the ingredients in our cosmetics are s
File photoBy analyzing sediment cores taken from six sites in southern Greece, an international team of researchers identified trends in cereal, olive, and grapevine production indicating major changes in agricultural production between 1000 BC and 600 AD
The lead scroll with Ancient Greek writing, found in an amulet belonging to the Greek man Demetrios, 160 AD. Credit: Museum of LondonAlthough most of us may feel a bit sorry for ourselves in 2020, having to deal with lockdowns and other strict measures to
The ancient fortification of Antissa on the Greek island of Lesvos. Credit: Ephorate of Antiquities of LesvosThree buildings that are of particular interest to archaeologists were brought to light recently in the ongoing excavation in the castle of Agioi
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At its peak, the British Empire ruled a quarter of the world's surface and population, but it still isn't history's biggest empire.(Image: © Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)According to Guinness World Records, wh
The cast-bronze hilt and pommel of the sword are intricately decorated with engravings of circles and rows of crescent-shaped marks.(Image: © Silesian Museum, Czech Republic)A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic found mu
Over 150 years after the first Pompeii victims were found, two more have been discovered.
The inscriber ran out of room and shrank the letters.
Proposed 3D visualization of the settlement at the islet of Dhaskalio. Credit: Greek Ministry of CultureKeros, the small, uninhabited Cycladic island south of Naxos, will be the subject of the first collaboration between The National Geographic and the Gr
Credit: Greek ReporterThe word “souvlaki” is synonymous with Greek food, whether the term refers simply to slices of grilled meat on a small wooden skewer or the soft pita bread stuffed with meat, tomatoes, onions,tzatziki sauceand French fries, which is
Archaeologists found two Stone Age skulls in Dehesilla Cave on the Iberian peninsula. One of the skulls (front) showed signs of a type of brain surgery called trepanation.(Image: © University of Seville)A Stone Age skull found in a Spanish cave b
Archaeologists in Siberia have unearthed a 2,500-year-old grave holding the remains of four people from the ancient Tagar culture —including two warriors, a male and female — and a stash of their metal weaponry.The early Iron Age burial contained the skel
Attackers may have timed the attack to coincide with a public gathering.
The brain cells turned to glass after being exposed to an avalanche of hot ash.
Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga
Stone tools scattered on the seafloor mark the oldest underwater site ever found on the continent.
Credit: AMNASections of the archaeological site of Mycenae,the bronze age kingdom of Agamemnon, were damaged by a wildfire on Sunday.Visitors and staff at the archaeological site were earlier evacuated as a precaution.In an announcement the Ministry of Cu
Aged 25 to 30 when he died 1,700 years ago, he is from the mountainous region of modern-day Khakassia.Male Tashtyk mask is kept in the State Hermatage Museum. CT of the mask layer. Pictures:©TheStateHermitageMuseum.Photo by Vladimir Terebenin, Pa
Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bones inside the Tagar culture death mask.X-ray technology of the period indicated something was unusual about the bones inside the clay head - but could not reveal more.Picture:Vyacheslav Porosev, Instutute of Nuclear
Breathtaking island complex close to Mongolian border rumoured to have been built for tragic Chinese princess.The site hasamazed almost everyone whohas ever ventured here to the very centre point of Eurasia. PIcture: Por Bajin FoundationNew scientific fin
The Hyksos once ruled Egypt, but they didn't arrive as invaders.
An ancient site that Wang Xinyuan's team found in Anxi-Dunhuang section of Gansu province along the major route of the ancient Silk Road.A type of archaeology, employing remote sensing and a multidisciplinary approach, is helping researchers unearth signi
Folk houses in Zhuoshuiancient town are besieged by flooding in Chongqing, on June 28, 2020. 3.5m yuan allocated to a fund for rescue work amid floods in southern provincesProtection and reinforcement of cultural heritage sites in flood-hit provinces in S
Strip miners in the eastern Serbian townof Drmno uncovered a flat-bottomed ship and twomonoxyles, or dugout longboats, along the banks of an ancient tributary of the Danube near the garrison at the Roman city of Viminacium. Measuring nearly 50 feet long a
This is the first known photograph of the magnificent statue of Moschophoros, also known in English as The Calf Bearer when was discovered on the Acropolis in 1864.The statue, dated c. 560 BC and estimated to have originally measured 1.65 meters (5.4 ft)
Exterior of the Treasury of Atreus or the Tomb of Agamemnon on Panagitsa Hill at Mycenae, Greece. This tomb is one of the many archaeological sites left behind of the ancient mainland civilization.New emerging DNA evidence suggests that living Greeks are
A relic from the Dongshan ancient tomb site unearthed in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology said experts have confirmed that the Dongshan ancient tomb site in Taiyuan, is a large-scale cemetery bel
Helios (Sun) on his chariot. Image from a 330 BCE vase from Canossa, a Greek colony in southern Italy.What is a golden age?A golden age captures the best and greatest virtues of human achievements. These accomplishments, however, must have the potential o
Tripodon Street today with the Monument of Lysicrates on the left. From the book “Plaka Through Time” The oldest street in Athens, and the whole of Europe, is about 2,500 years old — and is located in the Plaka neighborhood on the storied slopes of Acropo
Unknown vandals in Albania have caused “irreparable” damage to a monument in ancient Apollonia near the town of Fieri, Albanian authorities announced on Saturday.The director of the archaeological site was quoted as saying that “the damage is irreparable”
Ancient dice (four faces shown here) was found in an early Iron Age grave cairn in Western Norway.(Image: © University Museum at Bergen)On a cliff overlooking a narrow strait in western Norway, archaeologists have discovered rare game pieces, inc
Investigation and ExcavationHetian Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is located at the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Its fertile land has entered the horizon of the Han Chinese ever since the reign of the Emperor Wu of the Han D
The bronze coin has the words "Year Two of the Freedom of Israel" with a cluster of grapes in the middle.(Image: © Koby Harati/City of David Archive)Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a rare coin minted about 1,900 years ago, when
In Göbekli Tepe, archeologists have uncovered a handful of circular neolithic structures such as this one (Enclosure C), which consist of two T-shaped pillars surrounded by a bunch of slightly smaller inward-facing pillars.(Image: © Gil
An aerial view of the Tel Arad fortress that stands in what was once the Kingdom of Judah.(Image: © Asaf. Z; Public Domain)More than 2,700 years ago, worshipers at a "holy of holies" shrine in Israel may have gotten high on weed. Resear
Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painted replica of The Archer, sculpted in 490 BC and discovered in the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina (Stiftung Archologie, Munich)Marveling at the ancient Greek masterpieces today, there is a notion ingrained in our minds t
Hera (left) shakes hands with Athena. Acropolis Museum, AthensOut of all the gestures of greeting used today around the globe, the handshake is the most widely used. The first nearly-universal way of greeting someone, which was first portrayed in the arts
This is the largest piece of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, which is on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.(Image: © Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock)TheHistoriesbyHerodotus(484BC to 425BC) offers a rema
The sacred plaza, seen here, was at the heart of Girsu. A cultic area that had over 300 broken ceremonial objects was recently uncovered near its entrance.(Image: © S. Rey/Tello/Girsu Project)Archaeologists recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cul
Tight wrapping in childhood produced deliberately deformed skulls.
Replica swords tested combat skills and revealed battle damage
Reference article: Facts about Armageddon, the ancient city otherwise known as Megiddo.
The remains of the older warrior woman (left) and her husband, which were excavated from the Airagiin Gozgor archaeological site, in the Orkhon province of northern Mongolia.(Image: © Christine Lee)Archaeologists in Mongolia have found the remain
Photo: AMNAA proto-Byzantine-era skull which was discovered by anthropologists in the Paliokastro area onThasosisland shows signs of complicated surgery, according to a new Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) report.The skull, which dates from the earlyB
Archaeologists digitally reconstructed the leopard image from fragments of a sarcophagus cover.(Image: © University of Milan)Excavation of an ancient city of the dead in Aswan, Egypt, recently uncovered pieces of a sarcophagus lid that had been d
(Museum of London)Havering Hoard, East London, EnglandAn extraordinary collectionof bronze tools and weapons was recovered at a construction site near the Thames in East London. Dubbed the Havering Hoard, the assemblage comprises 453 artifacts dated to be
For thousands of years,in a field next to the site of the Palace of Nestor in Pylos in mainland Greece, tens of thousands of watermelon-sized stones protected two Bronze Age tombs dating to between 1600 and 1500 B.C., the very beginning of the Mycenaean e
Scientists have debated for years over why Bronze Age wall paintings at the ancient settlement of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini depict monkeys who originated from thousands of miles away in Asia.Some say that the artworks suggest that ancient
2019 was another year of major archaeological discoveries, not only inGreecebut across the Mediterranean basin, where the different phases of Greek antiquity left their indelible mark.Archaeologists from a number of countries from around the globe found g
Etruscan painting of dancers and musicians, in the Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, Italy. Photo credit: WikipediaThe Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back in time to the eras of anci
Ancient Greeks had a great love and respect for their dogs, cherishing them as companions, protectors, and hunters, as evidenced by several dog tombstones discovered over the centuries.The most well-known story about the relationship between ancient Greek
The orchestra of the ancient theater in Thouria. Photo credit: Greek Culture MinistryThe ancient Greek city of Thouria, located in the southernPeloponnese,is among the cities which managed to thrive and become important centers all by themselves in the wi
Old boards reveal the importance of trade to the empire.
Archaeologists uncovered a 3000-year-old megalithic temple in Peru.(Image: © Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán)Archaeologists have discovered a 3000-year-old megalithic temple in Peru that an ancient "water cult" used for fertility rituals.The t
Parts of the buried town of Beta Samati were occupied for more than 1,000 years, from the Pre-Aksumite era around 750 B.C. through the early Christian period from about A.D. 325 until about A.D. 650.(Image: © Nicole Harrower)An ancient church from th
(Image: © Greece Ministry of Culture and Sports)A storehouse of ancient treasures, including precious jewels and gold beads, has been uncovered by archaeologists on an island near Crete devoted to making a precious purple dye from sea snails thousand
The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.
The bodies of ancient princes and princesses may have rested in two ancient tombs lined with gold that were recently found at the site of Pylos in Greece, archaeologists announced Dec. 17.Inside the 3,500-year-old tombs, the archaeologists found intricate
The eating habits of the ancient Greeksare fascinating for so many reasons. They had an impressively varied diet by any measure, but it naturally contrasted in many ways to ours — with the most characteristic difference being that they ate much less than