reclaimed nearly two kilometers of the ancient harbor district, effectively sealing workshops and warehouses in a watery tomb for nearly two millennia. Mapping a Lost Maritime Metropolis A multi-year research initiative, spanning from 2021 to 2027, is...

across Greece and Crete have made a striking discovery: roughly one-third of the iron jewelry recovered from these elite tombs was forged from metal that originated in space. This revelation, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, sheds new...

religious requirements, seeing no conflict between the two practices. The Porous Boundaries of Early Belief Detail of Tomb 134 – © Denkmalamt Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Photo : Michael Obst. Ultimately, the Frankfurt amulet forces historians to move away...

of a unified Egypt, predating the iconic Giza pyramids by half a millennium. Petrie noted with unease that these royal tombs were surrounded by hundreds of smaller, subsidiary graves. The sheer volume of burials occurring simultaneously with the death...

Science, 2026 The archaeological contexts reinforce the prestige of these objects. The rings originate from elite tombs, affluent domestic settings, and a temple on Crete. One specimen was recovered from the Anemospilia sanctuary, while the others came...