Rebel Maccabees stormed and defeated a stronghold of the Seleucid Empire.The excavation in Lachish Forest, aerial view.(Image credit: Vladik Lifshits, Israel Antiquities Authority)Archaeologists have discovered the burned remains of an ancient Hellenistic
The burned bone fragments belonged to at least three adults.The cup is on permanent display at the Archaeological Museum of Pithecusae on the island of Ischia in Italy.(Image credit: Photo courtesy of Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per
Two graves in an ancient impact crater held luxury goods that were unusual for burials in the Middle Ages.Ornate carvings on the ivory comb depict scenes with animals.(Image credit: BLfD)A wealthy medieval man who died over 1,500 years ago in what is now
Iron fetters around the skeleton's ankles were secured in the center with a padlock.
Business in the front, party in the back.
Objects from the early Bronze Age in Europe may represent one of the oldest forms of currency.
长江流域的原始艺术（下）邵学海本文刊登于《长江文化论丛》第一辑良渚文化的玉器 新石器时代，我国制玉、用玉特别发达的地区，大致沿东南海岸线分布。北端有辽西及内蒙古东部的红山文化，中部有太湖流域的良渚文化，南有台湾卑南遗址等。也有学者认为，史前玉文化中心只有两个，一个红山文化，一个良渚文化。同时认为，“从影响面及影响的深远意义来看 ...
Attackers may have timed the attack to coincide with a public gathering.
The Hyksos once ruled Egypt, but they didn't arrive as invaders.
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Tight wrapping in childhood produced deliberately deformed skulls.
Replica swords tested combat skills and revealed battle damage
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
Hundreds who died weren't instantly vaporized.
Restorers discovered numerous objects concealed under the synagogue floor.
文/ DY编/ DY土耳其境内的哈桑火山（Mount Hasan），是安纳托利亚中部地区第二高山，在加泰土丘发现的壁画上就有她的身影（图片出自wikipedia）现代社会中，大多数人类聚集在乡村和城市之中，习以为常的享受着定居生活提供的各种便利。但在人类刚刚走向农业生活的时代，我们是如何建立最早的城市的？位于今天土耳其境内的加泰土丘遗址（Çatalhöyük）或许能解答我们的一些疑惑。加泰土丘遗址
Carved references to an aurora predate known records by nearly a century.
Gladiators may have frequented the ancient tavern where the fresco was found.
An aerial view of Kemune Palace from the west, near the Tigris River in Iraq.Credit: University of Tübingen/eScience Center/Kurdistan Archaeology OrganizationWhen a drought dried up the water in Iraq’s Mosul Dam reservoir, it exposed ruins from an ancient
Qingbai ceramics from the Field Museum's Java Sea Shipwreck collection.Credit: Copyright The Field Museum. Photo by Kate GolembiewskiScientists just blasted pottery from an ancient shipwreck with a "ray gun." Besides being totally sci-fi, the X-
Roman historians accused Nero of deliberately setting the Great Fire of Rome so that he could rebuild the city in a more pleasing style.Credit: Photographer Helmut Wimmer/Copyright Interspot Film GmbHWas the infamously cruelNeroreally as terrible an emper
Climate change trashed the Byzantine Empire, ancient garbage mounds revealed.Credit: ShutterstockAbout a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.A
Roman relief of a chariot race and spectators, from the Vatican Museum's collection.Credit: CM Dixon/Print Collector/GettyDuring the first century, people across Rome were obsessed with chariot races, which frequently produced horrific crashes.However, on
A schoolchild's homework in Greek was written on a wax tablet nearly 2,000 years ago.Credit: Copyright British Library BoardHomework written by a school kid in ancient Egypt has been preserved since the second century A.D. And the words on the slab may so
By mapping historical spy-satellite images to recent aerial photos, researchers can find historical sites that vanished decades ago.Credit: Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of ArkansasWhen the United States launched its first secret &q
A preserved painting shows the clearing of the site of Capitolias, with the assistance of Dionysus and other gods.Credit: Copyright CNRS HiSoMAIn an ancient Roman tomb that was recently discovered in Jordan, a colorful mural offers a comics-like glimpse o
"You are the stench of a low-life latrine," said one irate character to another in the ancient Roman novel "The Metamorphoses," written by Apuleius in the late second century A.D.Credit: ShutterstockAre ugly accusations and verbal abus
The remains of a child who lived in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall, and a woman who may have been the mother, will go on display for the first time in an exhibition at Birdoswald Roman Fort.The cremated remains were found with enigmatic grave goods includin
Experts study remains dug up in 19th century for first time ahead of Museum of London Docklands exhibitionA puff of dust almost 2,000 years old rose as archaeologist Jackie Keily gently tipped a wastepaper bin-sized lead container, and a pile of cremated
A bronze right arm, preserved from the shoulder to the fingers, was recently recovered from the Antikythera shipwreck. (Brett Seymour/EUA/ARGO)A graceful bronze arm that was once attached to a statue dating to the first century was recently recovered from
Ruins of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece.Credit: Motty Levy/ShutterstockArcheologists and other scientists have long known that intoxicating gases emanating from water flowing from deep within the earth likely produced the visions of the oracle of
Mosaic depicting Greek hero Bellerophon riding the winged horse Pegasus has been described as best find of its kind in 50 yearsA section of the mosaic, found at a Roman site near Boxford in BerkshireA spectacular Roman mosaic described as the best find of
Researchers offer a new angle on interpreting mathematical inscriptions on a very old tablet.Credit: UNSWScientists recently decoded a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia that dates to around 3,700 years ago, and found that it contains the oldest trigonome
Artefact, made in 698, is regarded as most important wooden object surviving in England from before Norman conquest
‘Almost unique’ remains of wealthy home from town’s Roman heyday found under public park in centre
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Sports has allocated 100 million tenge (US$319,400) for the first stage of reconstructing the ancient settlement of Saraishyk, reported Tengrinews on Apr. 3.
Fake objects Nightingale rated highly to join ancient Egyptian amulets she thought ‘shabby’ at World Museum in Liverpool
About 1,400 years ago in Israel, a bag holding nine bronze coins was carefully hidden inside a niche in a building's wall. Untouched since then, the coin cache recently emerged during excavations for a highway expansion near Ein Hemed, a national park loc
Archaeologists face race against time to save artefacts uncovered in crumbling labyrinths beneath the war-torn city
Cambodia's ancient stone city of Angkor is a remnant of the Khmer Empire, dating between the 9th and 15th centuries. But even stone crumbles over time, and scientists are investigating what may have led to significant degradation of the remains of Angkor'
Marble statues of Aphrodite/Venus found at Petra in Jordan date to the second century.Credit: Tom ParkerTwo marble statues representing Aphrodite/Venus, the Greco-Roman goddess of love, were found recently at Petra, an ancient desert city in Jordan.The st
An unusually delicate pair of artifacts recently emerged from a dig site in the United Kingdom: a tiny ball of thread and another length of thread wound around a bobbin. Both are estimated to be approximately 3,000 years old.
这是世界上最长的火车之旅——4683公里横穿中国。摄影师Matthieu Paley带着妻子和两个儿子打算从香港到大西北，而这条线路似乎是个不错的选择。 Paley说：“我相信这一路会非常精彩，我们将会看到真实的中国！中国大地将宛若一幅山水画在我们面前展开！更赞的是，这趟52个小时的火车之旅将从广州出发，抵达新疆，这比坐飞机更简单、更便宜。” 在Paley和家人看来，从翠绿的丛林到荒芜的干草原再到干燥的沙漠，中国每一寸 ...
