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At 4.5 meters high with a square base of 22 meters on each side, a 4,300-year-old pyramid has been unearthed at a cemetery associated with King Titi, who had his funerary complex built north-east to that of King Djoser (2630 – 2611 BC).
The original ...
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The Polar ice cap during the last Ice Age might not have been as extensive as previously thought, according to archaeologists looking at the remains of human settlements in the north of Sweden.
People may have lived in the northern region of Tornedalen a...
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The Babylonian seal found in Egypt recently has been dated to the reign of King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC). The script is in Akkadian and is the oldest babylonian artifact ever found in Egypt, indicating that the connections between the two ancient superpo...
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In what is sure to add weight to Levant theory of Atlantis, Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn has discovered - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan has been successively inhabited and irrigated for more than 13,000 years. The area where s...
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A new excavation is underway at the so called half way village between Deir-El-Medina and the Valley of the Kings. A photograph of the excavation has been published online, but so far little is known about the excavation. It is thought that Finnish archae...
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A major Mesolithic site at Asfordby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, which may date from as early as 9000 BC, has given up over 5000 worked flints including flint cores used for tool creation, blades, flakes and 'debitage' (small chips from tool-wo...
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A new theory has been proposed that marking on Indus Valley ceramics correspond to the volume of the vessel. Experiments on volume measurements so far seem to have confirmed the finding. System works like this: the sign ‘V’ stood for a measure, a lon...
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DNA tests are being performed on blood samples found on hundreds of obsidian spear tips and arrowheads dug up with bone fragments and smashed pottery at the summit of the El Tigre pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador. Mirador is 8 km from Guatemala's bord...
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In what is sure to have Atlantis scholars eager for more information, Spanish archaeologists working at Tall Qabr, in Syria, on the banks of the Euphrates river have unearthed a planned circular shaped city that dates back to 2,600 BC.
The specific area...
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Hundreds of bleached bones and skulls found in the Sahara desert by Italian archaeologists seems to have solved the riddle of what happened to the Lost Army of Cambyses. According to Herodotus, Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers f...
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Excavations began on a Canaanite city from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 B.C.) at Tel Kabri in 1986. Though they were halted in 1993, they have started up again and have already changed the picture of Canaan's relationship with the Mediterranean worl...
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An examination of skulls dating back to 2,500 BC at the ancient city of Ur, now in modern day Iraq, have shown evidence of large scale violent human sacrifice. The original royal tombs were a major find in the 1920s and the surrounding burials numbering o...
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A scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years is now the oldest artifact ever discovered in the Americas, possibly predating the Clovis culture of 12,900 to 12,400 years ago, says archaeologist Dennis Jenkins of the University of Ore...
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Jim Krehbiel of Ohio Wesleyan University and one of his students spent years uncovering why ancient kivas (rooms used for religious rituals) were built in such remote sites in Utah. Their findings have revealed 29 sites that have alignments for solstices,...
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Michael Le Quesne, a 16 year old from England, on holiday with his parents, made an extraordinary discovery over the 2009 summer. While snorkeling at Maljevik, a small bay of sand and shingle, near the city of Bar, he spotted an odd looking 'stone' at...
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Archaeologists have finally started exploring a sunken Mayan city that was first discovered 12 years ago. Roberto Samayoa, a businessman and recreational diver had been diving in Lake Atitlán for years, and often found pre-classical Mayan pottery shard...
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Irene Forstner-Müller, head of the Austrian Archaeological Institute regional office in Cairo, has announced the discovery of a Babylonian seal in Egypt that confirms contact between the Babylonians and the Hyksos during the second millennium B.C. The H...
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Luis Chero, head of the Huaca Rajada Sipan Archaeological Complex, has announced new findings that push the earliest known date for the Moche civilization in Peru back to 100 BC. The discovery, a young warrior's tomb, has bee carbon dated. It contains th...
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Work on a second runway at Malaga airport, Spain has been disrupted as earth moving accidentally uncovered the oldest Phoenician remains in the area, older than the remains discovered at El Cerro del Villar 40 years ago. Called ‘La Rebanadilla’, the n...
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New archaeological evidence at the Dhra′ excavations near the Dead Sea in Jordan have unearthed large scale, sophisticated granaries that have been carbon dated to 9,000 BC (11,300–11,175 cal B.P.) This is a thousand years earlier than previous findi...
