and Coptic, these fragments record transactions, personal letters, and other mundane communications. Additional household artifacts such as pottery, perfume and oil containers, and various stoneware were also retrieved. Golden Mouthpieces Reveal Ancient...

Archaeologists uncover a Toltec-era altar with human remains and obsidian artifacts near Tula, shedding light on the ancient city’s layout and rituals. Archaeologists uncovered a stone altar on the fringe of the Tula Archaeological Zone in Hidalgo,...

aridity forced them to migrate. Unearthing a Lost Oasis in the Prehistoric Sahara Excavations revealed a suite of artifacts—stone implements, pottery shards, ornamental beads, decorated eggshell fragments, animal bones, and charred plant...

amounts of extraterrestrial metal, linking elite craftsmanship to space‑borne material. A recent investigation of 91 iron artifacts recovered from Greece and Crete revealed that 13 of them— all ring‑shaped pieces—contain unusually high concentrations of...

one of the world’s original seven wonders. Monumental Entrance Stones Retrieved from the Sea Among the recovered artifacts are enormous door lintels, doorjambs, a threshold slab, and sizable base stones. Researchers also identified a previously unknown...

evidence of advanced pump systems, sophisticated anchors, and complex plumbing fixtures. Among the most revealing artifacts were lead pipes stamped with the name of Caligula, which definitively linked the ships to the emperor. The discovery of...

ship’s commanding officer of any wrongdoing. The previously unnamed formation was eventually designated “Basse Nouvelle.” Artifacts recovered from the wreck of the French battleship France. Credit: Ouest-France The Fragmented Legacy of a Sunken Giant...

curator at the Île-de-France Regional Archaeology Service, noted that the site’s construction style and associated artifacts offer compelling evidence for the island’s ancient importance. “The wall’s architecture, with its large blocks and systems of...

Archaeologists in Alaska have unearthed 80,000 artifacts from a 13,800-year-old site, revealing new insights into how early North Americans lived and thrived. Archaeologists working in a remote region southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, have uncovered a...

Greek marble altar discovered in the region (2025). With fieldwork for this season concluded, the chariot and associated artifacts will be sent to the Autonomous University of Madrid for conservation and detailed analysis, a step deemed crucial for...

demonstrates a blend of cultural currents: Viking‑linked silver coexists with Anglo‑Saxon runic inscriptions, Christian artifacts, and objects that journeyed across great distances before arriving in Scotland. Scholars propose that the hoard was not the...

revelations along the river, where receding waters have also exposed long-submerged shipwrecks. While those earlier artifacts offered a glimpse into recent history, the mammoth remains provide a window into a period dating back hundreds of thousands of...

of Herculaneum, carbonizing its vast library of papyrus scrolls into fragile, blackened remnants. For centuries, these artifacts have challenged scholars, as the traditional ink—historically carbon-based—offers almost no contrast against the scorched,...

Linear Elamite script, opening a new window onto a language that vanished a millennium ago. The script, first spotted on artifacts unearthed at Susa in 1903, is composed of geometric symbols—diamonds, curves and broken lines—that resisted interpretation...

years ago—significantly older than earlier estimates. Reinterpreting the Grave Goods The investigation also revisited the artifacts found alongside the burial. Initial excavations uncovered a young rabbit’s bones laid on the child, red deer remains near...

the ERT data revealed a substantially larger construction, consistent with a Saite‑era (26th Dynasty) feature. Religious Artifacts Hint at Temple Identity A focused 10 × 10 metre trench exposed mudbrick walls that matched the geophysical signatures....

into the ancestral realm. What the Bells Reveal About Ancient Zeng Worldviews Tse cautions that interpreting ancient artifacts solely as utilitarian items can impose modern, secular frameworks onto societies that operated under fundamentally different...

Presidential Palace before being placed back into secure storage. China was the most recent foreign venue to host the artifacts, underscoring the ongoing scholarly interest in their cross‑cultural significance. Many of the thinner, hammered gold pieces...

(STScI) Combining imaging with simultaneous spectroscopy allowed the team to distinguish a genuine planetary signal from artifacts or dust structures that can mimic planets in raw images. “A bright spot appeared in the IFU data, but we know not to trust...

how Egyptian and Graeco‑Roman cultures co‑existed. Gold Ornaments Reveal Afterlife Beliefs Among the most striking artifacts are the twenty‑four gold pieces, likely intended to be placed on the lips of mummified bodies. In antiquity, gold was regarded...