Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Archaeologists working in Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula have uncovered a lush and previously underappreciated prehistoric landscape filled with ancient cemeteries, rock art, and standing stones that together present a complex picture of ritual life in the area between 3000 and 500…
Archaeologists excavating Somló Hill in western Hungary have unearthed six extraordinary hoards of metal artifacts over 3,000 years old, offering new information on the social and ritual life of Bronze and Iron Age communities in the area. The finds, which…
In the dry plains of ancient Nubia—modern-day Sudan—women were not just pillars of their households but true bearers of the community’s weight, according to a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. The study, led by Jared…
Archaeologists on Crete have revealed telling evidence that Bronze Age populations did not just give up on their ancient burial grounds—rather, they entombed them in complex rituals that reflected profound societal changes. In a paper recently published in the journal…
Archaeologists in North Macedonia have uncovered the remains of a possibly long-lost ancient city far more ancient and important than previously known. Found near Crnobuki village, the Gradishte archaeological site was widely believed to have been a 3rd-century BCE Macedonian…
A pair of copper-alloy cymbals discovered in the north of Oman is offering fresh insights into Bronze Age Persian Gulf cultural dynamics and suggests that music may have been at the forefront of connecting communities across vast regions, such as…
For the first time, scientists have unveiled chemical evidence that wine was consumed on a large scale in ancient Troy, contradicting earlier assumptions that it was a drink of the elite. Scientists from the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Jena…
Two well-preserved daggers from the Bronze Age have been discovered in a field in the municipality of Kutenholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. The over 3,000-year-old artifacts are among the earliest Bronze Age findings in the region. Their discovery has provided new…
Archaeologists have made an enigmatic discovery at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Başur Höyük in southeastern Turkey: a significantly high number of adolescent remains buried in elaborate graves. The discovery, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, sheds new light on…
A trailblazing study conducted by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology mapped out the economic and political borders of the territory of El Argar, the Bronze Age site credited with…
