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
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.
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
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.
After two years' excavation, a large cache of ceramics have been unearthed at an imperial concubine's tomb dating from the Liao Dynasty (916-1125) in Duolun county, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The unearthed porcelains are decorated with gold and sil
Chinese and German archeologists have found images of what they believe to be Arabian horses on cliff paintings dating back 2,000 years in the Yinshan Mountains of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
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
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.
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
