(Courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology/Russian Academy of Sciences)Bronze Corinthian helmet, Taman PeninsulaArchaeologists have discovereda bronze Corinthian helmet in the burial of several fifth-century B.C. Greek warriors in southwestern Russia. This
(Courtesy Marina Kilunovskaya)Clockwise from top left: stone buckle, bronze buckle, and female burialOn the bankof a river in Siberia’s Tuva region, archaeologists have unearthed an Iron Age cemetery that held the remains of nobles of the Xiongnu Empire,
Mike P. Shepherd/Alamy Stock Photo)Merchants’ quarter at KaneshThe world’s earliest evidencefor a robust long-distance trading network comes in the form of thousands of clay tablets excavated from the Bronze Age site of Kanesh, in central Turkey. From abo
A villager in thenorthern Chinese province of Shanxi was renovating a house when he was shocked to discover it was built over an ancient tomb. Archaeologists called in to excavate the site dated it to the Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127) and found that the bu
Searching for evidence of cultural changes that swept the prehistoric British Isles
Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered a sword and a shield boss. The discovery seemed routine, unti
At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection
