• Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Uses Satellites to Uncover Ancient Egyptian Ruins
The Indiana Jones of low Earth orbit harnesses 21st-century technology to uncover long-buried treasures
The Indiana Jones of low Earth orbit harnesses 21st-century technology to uncover long-buried treasures
The iconic seventh-century defaced Buddha at Jahan Abad, Swat, at last, got its face back after a nine-year-long wait following a scientific restoration process conducted by Italian archaeologists.
About 8,000 Terracotta Warriors were buried in three pits less than a mile to the northeast of the mausoleum of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. They include infantryman, archers, cavalry, charioteers and generals. Now new research, including
Dairying began with the onset of agriculture, and likely helped early farmers, said the study's lead researcher, Cynthianne Spiteri, a junior professor of archaeometry at the University of Tübingen in Germany, who conducted the residue analysis as part of
The first established city-state in Anatolia, Melid, continues to shed light on ancient Anatolian history with its adobe palace, ancient relics, including swords and spears, and a temple erected 5,500 years ago.
Archaeologists and metallurgists found inside one of the amulets of the bronze age, found in Pakistan, the first unequivocal evidence that humanity has mastered the secret of the forming casting is already six thousand years ago.
On the Kabardian ridge, in the foothills of mount Elbrus, the archaeologists found about two hundred ancient settlements, built on the same architectural plan.
A massive, 1,500-year-old stone complex that may have been built by nomad tribes has been discovered near the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.
In the late 90-ies of the last century when aerial photography in the Novosibirsk region researchers have discovered an unusual anomaly on the shore of lake chicha, which is 5 km from the town of Zdvinsk. In the picture you can clearly see the outlines of
In one of the mounds archaeological Tarbagatay number of gold items discovered in the form of a hornless deer, bronze ferrules, jewellery, beads and the remains of ancient man, who was prepared for embalming.
The Silk Road serves as the ancient route that connects the east with the west, the Asian with the European continent, and refers to the related geographic and cultural regions.
Karsakpay near the mine in Central Kazakhstan, in the mountains of Altyn-Clack, was found a stone with a carved inscription on it.
A previously unknown huge structure is hidden near the historical monuments of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. This is the conclusion of scientists who analyzed high-resolution satellite images and photos taken by a drone from a bird’s flight.
A jug unearthed at the oldest shipwreck in the central Mediterranean could prove that the Maltese islands were an integral part of the Phoenician trade network.
A Medieval well that was once believed to wash away sins, while healing eye and skin diseases has been recovered in England. Legend has it that the well was also cursed and records indicate a strange death occurred there.