Egyptian officials announced that archaeologists from Egypt and the United States have uncovered a historic burial site featuring 11 sealed interments near the famous city of Luxor, as stated by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in an official announcement on Friday.The ministry revealed that the burial site, dating to the Middle Kingdom period (1938 … Read more
Israeli archaeologists working in the Judean Desert found the earliest evidence of Biblical scarlet dye, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday. The rare textile, 3,800 years old and less than two cm in size, was uncovered in the “Cave of Skulls” northeast of Jerusalem during excavations aimed at preserving heritage finds and preventing antiquities … Read more
Archaeologists discovered a 1,500-year-old ivory box within a marble shrine under an altar at a chapel on Burgbichl hill in Irschen, Austria. The box, adorned with Christian motifs, is believed to be tied to Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, according to Fox News report. The relic was discovered by Archaeologists from Innsbruck University.The marble shrine, … Read more
Archaeologists have been trying to piece together the full human story for a long time, but some members of prehistoric societies have been largely overlooked: kids! It turns out these little people played a much bigger part in human history than we realized. In Little Sapiens, a documentary from The Nature of Things, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki … Read more
NEW DELHI: Archaeologists have made an exciting discovery at the Abraq archaeological site in the Umm Al Quwain region of UAE. According to Reuters, three golden coins, estimated to be 2,000 years old, have been found at this ancient site of Tell Abraq. The site dating back to 2500 BC, is considered one of the … Read more
KOLKATA: Researchers from IIT Kharagpur, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Deccan College have found evidence of human settlement that is as old as 800 BCE (Before Christian Era) at Vadnagar in Gujarat. An IIT Kharagpur statement said that the study of deep archaeological excavation at Vadnagar … Read more
The 2013 discovery of the largest collection of hominid fossils ever found is rewriting the origin of complex behaviours we thought were uniquely human, says a renowned paleoanthropologist. The fossilized bones belonged to an entirely new species of ancient human relatives called, Homo naledi, which lived in South Africa several hundred thousand years ago when the first Homo … Read more
