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Lidar mapping has made finding lost cities buried deep within dense jungle much easier than it was decades ago, when archaeologists were forced to traverse thick vegetation on foot.

Cartonnage Statuette. Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most ...

2025年1月8日 · Rock-cut tomb, Saqqara, Egypt. CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a team of Egyptian and Japanese archaeologists from Kanazawa University has uncovered two rock-cut tombs, mastabas, and ...

1 天前 · ALMENDRALEJO, SPAIN—According to an El País report, researchers from Tera S.L. discovered a 4,900-year-old fortress on a hill in southwestern Spain. The pentagon-shaped fortress was surrounded ...

INDIA: One of the keys to sustaining the flourishing civilizations of the Indus Valley may have been the development of dairy production. Isotope analysis of lipid residues from ceramic vessels ...

Features May/June 2024. Searching for Lost Cities From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time

(Leping Jiang) CHINA: Microfossil residue analysis of ceramic cups found in a 9,000-year-old burial mound at Qiaotou indicates that the dead were sometimes commemorated through ritual beer ...

(2020 Van Neer et al.) LIBYA: Faunal remains from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya underscore just how different the environment was there 10,000 years ago. While today the site is ...