• This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization
The recent discovery of the grave of an ancient soldier is challenging accepted wisdom among archaeologists
The recent discovery of the grave of an ancient soldier is challenging accepted wisdom among archaeologists
New discoveries at Tel Aviv University's Timna Valley excavation have revealed intact defensive structures and livestock pens that provide insight into the complexity of Iron Age copper production.
Archaeological surface survey and cleaning works in the ancient site of Kızılkoyun and the outskirts of a historic castle in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa’s Haleplibahçe district have unearthed 133 inns and five mosaics.
In Eastern China due to the fall of the water level in the reservoir was discovered an ancient Buddha statue. The water level in the reservoir dropped more than 10 meters due to repair the lock gates. As a result, the surface appeared the head of a statue
An ancient city with a long history dating back 3,500 years, the ancient city of Stratonicea in Muğla province has been excavated for some time where 65 tombs have been revealed recently, shedding light on the population of the city back in Roman tim
Two plump woman figurines unearthed in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük represent elderly women, not the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele as was earlier believed, according to an expert.
Heavy rains raging in recent days in Ierapetra (Crete), have led to the exit surface marble… priceless treasures! It happened in one of January days. 30-year-old farmer Michalis Bahlitzanakis was driving his car a few kilometers West of Ierapetra, when I
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
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.
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.
To Gyobekli-Tepa – the most ancient temple on Earth. According to scientists, it was constructed by nomads 12 thousand years ago, and only later near it there were settlements of settled tribes. But whether so it? The ancient megalith conceals in itself a
In many ancient cultures legends about portals to other worlds or other Universes where there live “creators” of people remained. In our world it is considered to be that these “a star gate” only myths and legends, however they can contain a considerable
As the nation teetered on the brink of war in the 1930s, two Western-educated thinkers struck out for the hinterlands to save their country's riches
An ancient glass furnace has been unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Metropolis in the Aegean province of İzmir’s Torbalı district. The finds in the furnace show that its ceramics were imported from Athens to the region.
The mysterious Plain of Jars is an archaeological site in central Laos that has thousands of stone vessels scattered across the ground. Researchers have long tried to figure out why the stone jars were littered across this remote part of Laos.
Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Laodicea, located in the Eskihisar neighborhood in the western province of Denizli and added to the UNESCO World Heritage Temporary list in 2013, are continuing at a 10-meter-long sacred Agora on an area o
Age was found near Novorossiysk archaeological site scientists have identified grains on human teeth. Novorossiysk archaeologists in recent years found in the suburban village Natuhaevskoy few settlements belonging to the so-called Maikop culture of the I
The first fragment of this rare and unique text, a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet, was found in the early 1900s by German-American scholar Hermann Hilprecht at the site of ancient Nippur and published in 1906.
Hereke Castle in Kocaeli, in northwest Anatolia near Istanbul, built in the Eastern Roman Empire and then abandoned, is being restored by Körfez Municipality.
“Bull fat, bat blood… donkey blood… what looks like the heart of a lizard. And a little pulverised pottery and a dash of honey.”
A group of archaeologists found in the North of China the remains of the saltworks, whose age is estimated in 2 thousand years. According to China radio International, saltworks was discovered in the County, Helingeer, where archaeologists found a round p
From June to September, 2016, Wuhan Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted an archaeological exploration and excavation to the cemetery in Xinglong village, Zaoyang city, Hubei province; found out 10 small and medium-sized tombs,
An exhibition of more than 700 pieces or sets of jade unearthed from the Fu Hao tomb has opened at the Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou.
Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Magarsus, located in the southern province of Adana’s Karataş district, have temporarily ended. Works are expected to resume next season in Magarsus’ theater’s orchestra and stadium sections.
The inhabitants of Ancient Greece differed little from our compatriots in regard to drinking. But they knew a lot of recipes on how to avoid a hangover. Scientists working on the study of ancient papyri, found a document in which the magical ways of curin
The excavations in the ancient city of Magarsus in Adana will focus on unearthing the ancient theater's orchestra and stadium sections next season.
The Goryeo (Koryo) kingdom ruled ancient Korea from 918 CE to 1392 CE, and it oversaw a flourishing of the arts, literature, and architecture.
How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
The ancestors of the legendary Mongol conqueror could be Europeans — say the scientists, who carried out the genetic analysis was found in 2004 of the remains of relatives of Genghis Khan.
In the world there are the people who would keep the memories of this event. Here is what it says about the crash of one of the codes of the Maya: “the Sky approached the earth and in one day all perished. Even the mountains disappeared under the water…”
It’s been more than three years, but the fact that these artifacts in the world has not yet been found. While they are unique, scientists say.
Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius Severus, which dominates Libya's ancient city of Leptis Magna, brandishing letters of thanks for his efforts to protect the site.
I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year on behalf of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
About 3000 years ago the people which today very few people remember passed a shattering gait through the Middle East. This army razed the cities to the ground, tortured survivors and sowed fear around the world.
2,000-year-old tombs dating back to the ancient Roman civilization have been unearthed in Turkey's central province of Kütahya during the construction works of the new municipality service building, reports said on Thursday.
2015年，在俄罗斯靠近北极圈的Gornoknyazevsk村庄附近发现了一批精美文物。文物的重见天日，带给科学家们一系列问题——比如，它们究竟是如何出现在这里的？
This treasure was accidentally found near the village of Gornoknyazevsk (YNAO) in 2015 and transferred to the Museum. A detailed study of the specialists have a lot of questions, and one of the most important how I got here this treasure.
This year’s archaeological excavations carried out in the ancient city of Daskyleion in the northwestern province of Balıkesir’s Bandırma district have unearthed two kitchens with utensils such as pots, pans, fish bone, seed and mortar made of b
More than 20 human settlement sites from the pre-Qin period were discovered scattered along the Anning river valley plain for nearly 100 kilometers in Southwest China's Sichuan province, according an archaeological achievements briefing in Xichang on Dec
Archaeological excavations carried out on the coast of the Küçükçekmece Lake in Istanbul’s Avcılar district by Kocaeli University aim to shed light on the history of earthquakes in Istanbul.
华夏地理 国家地理中文网暨华夏地理俯视河道纵横的威尼斯摄影：feray umut 对威尼斯的记忆总显得不太真实。不真实的原因在于，这座城市太不同寻常了，已经不能用一般意义的城市来称呼它。这是人类文明进程中里程碑一般的存在，是城市中的城市，一把不可思议的标尺。从维也纳到威尼斯坐了一趟夜车。盘算着睡一觉，既省了一晚酒店，又省了一天路上奔波，一举两得的穷游思维。 然而，我却失眠了。 那还是第一次在欧洲坐卧铺，除了 ...
On Saturday, 3 December 2016, the Abu Dhabi Declaration was adopted at the close of the International Conference on Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Conflict Areas (2-3 December 2016). ICOMOS was represented at the conference by its Director General Mari
Turkish archeologists in Dascylium ancient city in Turkey's western province of Balıkesir have discovered a 2,600 year-old kitchen which belonged to the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in Anatolia.
Excavations that have been going on for six years at the ancient city of Bathonea in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district promise to give estimations about historical earthquakes that hit the city
Daesh terrorist have destroyed the ancient site of Nimrud almost beyond recognition, and left its ruins vulnerable to thieves and further damage, according to the United Nations.
1989年10月11日，拉萨，晴。 布达拉宫法号长鸣，一名来自色拉寺名叫坚赞觉群的年轻喇嘛，挥动了布达拉宫维护工程开工的第一镐。坚赞觉群作为第一个挥镐僧人由传统的西藏占卜择定。他必须是24岁，五官端正，父母健在，生肖、姓名吉祥，同时品行高尚。 此前，为了祈求工程吉祥圆满，西藏的大德高僧们举行了一系列法事活动。甘丹寺僧众每日念诵《度母经》10万次，哲蚌寺、色拉寺喇嘛在著名高僧益西旺秋的主持下聚会10天诵读 ...
Chinese archeologists discovered in Shaanxi province in Central China Imperial ritual complex, the Altar of heaven. Scientists have dated the construction to the beginning of the Qin dynasty (221-207 years BC), it was used for sacrifices, which were held
The primordial drevnetyurksky name – “бәдіз” (“badiz”), in some regions – “мүсін” (“musin”), but the most known – балбалтас.
The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies up to 3,000 years old have been virtually unwrapped and reconstructed for the first time using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint British-Australian exhibition.
A nearly 2,000-year-old pet cemetery holding the remains of dogs, monkeys and scores of cats has been uncovered in an ancient Egyptian town, archaeologists say.
Archaeologists have discovered terrifying evidence of ancient burial rituals that took place in one of the regions of Brazil.
Malaria afflicted the Roman Empire some 2,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of human teeth collected in Italian cemeteries.
Zawyet El-Erian is a city in Lower Egypt, located between Giza and Abusion.
Examination has defined age of lead books of religious contents in Hebrew language. It has turned out that books which long time were considered as a fake really have been written 2000 years ago.
A treasure hunter armed with a metal detector, found in a field in Cambridgeshire, a giant necklace (torc) of gold, weighing about 730 grams and age of more than three thousand years.
More than 10,000 artifacts, including bronze and porcelain, terracotta, iron utensils, brought this year’s excavations in the Beijing district of Tongzhou at the construction site of the administrative center.
According to many researches, the Egyptian Sphinx hides even more riddles than Great pyramids. Nobody authentically knows when and for what purposes this huge sculpture was constructed.
A third structure has been found within the famous Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico, experts say.Researchers used 3D imaging to illustrate their findThe 10m (33t) tall pyramid was found within two other structures that comprise the 30m pyramid at the Ma
In the safe one old lady living in South Africa, kept the stone sardonyx, which she is ready to give Israel 225 million dollars. Amount fabulous, but in Israel still contemplating the stone may be from the temple of Jerusalem.
Unusual ritual complex has been discovered in the Karaganda region in 2012