Iran is displaying hundreds of ancient Persian artifacts, some dating back as far as 3,500 years and all of them recently brought back home from museums and collections in Western countries.
Bridging three periods of income inequality, the gravestone of a former slave finds a new home
The site of Khirbet Qumran (a modern Arabic name) is located in the West Bank, near the northern edge of the Dead Sea, and is the place where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in nearby caves 70 years ago.
The tomb of a general and his princess wife buried on March 18, in the year 564, has been discovered in China.
On a small island in Kuwait, archaeologists have discovered a jewellery workshop containing 3,500 year old semiprecious stones.
Mummified potentate and wife were found in burial mound 42 metres in diameter, and they went to the next life alongside 9 geldings, saddled and harnessed.
Life after death for the Ancient Egyptian elite included lots, and lots, of food
The ancient city of Uzuncaburç (Olba), one of the most notable tourism attractions in the southern province of Mersin, is a draw for visitors even in the winter months when it acquires an extra beauty under a blanket of snow.
Burials are located at about 650m south of Xizhucun Village, Koudian Town, Luoyang City and 20.4 km north of Changhe Gate of Luoyang ancient City from Han-Wei Periods. They are placed on the northern slow slope of Wan’an Mount and about 2.5km west of Huan
A medieval building that may have been used as a synagogue has been uncovered at the site of Huqoq, a village near the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
The recent discovery of the grave of an ancient soldier is challenging accepted wisdom among archaeologists
A sarcophagus, which has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Aigai in the western province of Manisa, was revealed to have been belonged to a school principal after its pieces were reunited.
Artifacts from the Erbil Civilization Museum
Most, if not all, of our readership knows about the intentional destruction of ancient artifacts, buildings, mosques, shrines, and the contents of Mosul museum contents by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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.
Ancient Egyptians who buried their deceased kin in pots may have chosen the burial vessels as symbols of the womb and rebirth, scientists argue in a new paper.
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
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
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.
Archaeologists in Israel are unraveling the complex history of an ancient military fortification dating to the reigns of Kings Solomon and David.
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
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.
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
Archaeologists will continue to dig up the past in 2017. But what can we expect them to uncover? Four out of the five predictionsthat Live Science made at the end of 2015 about major discoveries in 2016 came true. Read on to see whose bones and which majo
Destruction of Syria's historical monuments is akin to Wales' castles and Stonehenge being "looted and obliterated", an archaeologist has said.
Dating back to A.D 542, the period of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, which attracts millions of tourists every year, is going under comprehensive restoration that will help protect the historical construction as well as b
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.
The construction of the museum aiming to revive the ancient city of Troy, next to its relics in the western province of Çanakkale, has entered its final stage.
Archaeologists excavated the city wall and the moat at the orchard and nursery of Langshe District, Kuqa Town
“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,
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
Scientists have found evidence of silk dating back 8,500 years after testing soil samples from a Neolithic site in Henan province.
The project to find the tomb of Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan, carried out under the sponsorship of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) in Turkmenistan has been paused after it was discovered that German archaeology team participating i
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.
On the territory of the Egyptian necropolis of qubbet El-Hawa discovered ancient wall. The Director of the Department of antiquities archaeological areas of Aswan and Nubia Nasr Salama called the discovery “staggering”.
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…”
