New finds in northwest China revive Liubo, the Han‑era board game, adding unearthed boards that deepen clues about its mysterious rules. New excavations in Shaanxi have unearthed Han‑era tombs that contain Liuo game boards etched onto bricks, offering...

A pristine 4th‑century Egyptian desert settlement uncovered, showing streets, homes, a church and 1,600‑year‑old secrets. Archaeologists working for Egypt’s antiquities authority have revealed a fully intact Byzantine settlement at Ain El‑Sabil in the...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient German tomb have uncovered a mysterious hidden tunnel, leaving experts baffled as to its original purpose. Archaeologists working near the village of Reinstedt in eastern Germany have unearthed a curious...

Divers recovered hundreds of gold coins from an English wreck; newly uncovered London legal records finally reveal the ship’s name, cargo and doomed voyage. Thirty years after a glint of gold first caught a diver’s eye on the sands of Devon’s...

A 2,000‑year‑old bronze chariot unearthed in Spain reveals unique mythic carvings and unprecedented insights into ancient Iberian cultures. Archaeologists excavating the Tartessian settlement of Casas del Turuñuelo in Guareña, Badajoz, have recovered a...

Egyptian excavations uncover a Byzantine town with streets, a church, and tombs packed with gold burial items. Egypt remains a premier laboratory for uncovering tangible clues about ancient societies, their worship practices, and mortuary rituals....

A 62‑acre site near Hradec Králové produced 13,000 bags of artifacts but no graves, walls or clear reason for its disappearance. While surveying a new highway route in the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic, construction workers near Hradec Králové...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a mysterious Neolithic stone-paved workshop, shedding new light on ancient craftsmanship and daily life. Archaeologists working at the Neolithic site of Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a...

A 5,000‑year‑old tomb’s stone disk, whose modern‑looking shape baffles archaeologists, sparks ongoing debate over its original purpose. Unearthed nearly a hundred years ago in a First Dynasty burial, the stone object known as the Sabu Disk continues to...

Discover the pre‑Inca civilization that thrived around Lake Titicaca, revealed by years of archaeological research uncovering an advanced ancient state. The Tiwanaku civilization flourished around the Lake Titicaca Basin from roughly 500 to 1100 CE,...

2000‑year‑old gold rings unearthed at a Thai burial site include a plain band and one with an Indian‑astronomy inscription, shedding new light on the Iron Age. Excavations at the recently identified Don Yai Thong burial ground in Phetchaburi province...

First treasures from a $20 billion shipwreck emerge, sparking a global clash over gold, history and legal ownership. Three centuries after the San José vanished beneath the Caribbean, a Colombian-led team succeeded in raising its first tangible relics....

Archaeologists have uncovered long-lost boxes dating back to a 1957 excavation, revealing significant historical findings hidden for decades. Decades after they were first unearthed, tens of thousands of artifacts from the ancient Rajghat site in...