In Konya province's Çatalhöyük ancient site, which sheds light on the culture of one of the first human settlements, two unearthed figurines reportedly represent ‘old women' of the civilization, rather than ‘mother goddesses' as it was thought e
A source said that about 2 million Wu Zhu coins weighing more than 10 tons were unearthed, and 100,000 have been sorted so far. Surprisingly, the character on one coin was found to have been carved upside down. The source added that considerably more time
Bronze and porcelain are among the items unearthed in an ancient tomb that had recently been discovered along the Jingmen section of the Menghua Railway in Central China's Hubei province.
The Qi version of The Analects of Confucius (Qi Lun), which had been lost for about 1,800 years, was suspiciously found in bamboo slips unearthed from the Haihunhou tomb, after the first round of infrared scanning, according to Jiangxi Provincial Institut
Chinese archaeologists have discovered several small ceramic figurines during the excavation in the Central province of Hunan. The artifacts were found in the area Sonicjapan in the city district of Changde. The age of the finds is about 4 thousand years.
Part of a graveyard dating back around 3,400 years has been unearthed in southern Egypt at the site of Gebel el Silsila, Egypt's antiquities ministry has announced.
Death during pregnancy or childbirth would have been common in the ancient world, but these stories are often invisible in the archaeological record. However, in a new study of ancient DNA, researchers reported evidence of a woman who died of a pregnancy
Archaeologists in Israel are unraveling the complex history of an ancient military fortification dating to the reigns of Kings Solomon and David.
The eye-catching annual “New Archaeological Discoveries in China” Archaeology Forum sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and organized by the Institute of Archaeology of CASS and Archaeology Press was held in Beijing on January 10th,
Two ancient tombs are found at a construction site in Bazhong city, Southwest China's Sichuan province. The tombs, thought to be of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), have elaborate decorations inside, including flower carvings. Experts say the findings can he
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient tomb in Hunan province in Central China. Length of the tomb is 14 m, width 2 m. On its walls are murals depicting two girls.
The oldest evidence of silk made by silkworms has been found buried in 8,500-year-old tombs in China, revealing that people may have used the luxurious material thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new study finds.
A 2,400-year-old tomb filled with the skeletons of at least six people has been discovered in northern Iraq. Among the artifacts found in the tomb is a bracelet decorated with images of two snake heads peering at each other.
Archaeologists have found murals dating back more than 900 years in a tomb in Zhangzi county, Shanxi province.
A documentary prepared jointly by TRT, the Diyarbakır Governor’s Office and the Turkish Development Ministry has claimed that the ancient statues in the world’s oldest-known temple were constructed by the Prophet Abraham’s father, Terah, prompting an
