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Archaeologists Find Unique Minoan Sealstone in Greece

In 2015, University of Cincinnati (UC) archaeologists Professor Jack Davis and Dr. Shari...

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The site.

Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus (11 April 145 – 4 February 211), born there, died in York while preparing to invade Scotland....

The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals

Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean...

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Continuously Run Libraries

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a sacred Christian site nestled in...

Marco Polo himself may have recognised this medieval trading ship. It’s one of the 40 or so shipwrecks newly discovered on the bed of the Black Sea...

Here are two examples from Mexico. One is El Pillar, the lost and buried city of the Maya in the Yucatan. This site is totally buried but with the...

Temple of Artemis Found on Greek Isle of Euboea

AMARYNTHOS, GREECE—Swissinfo reports that a team of Swiss researchers led by Karl Reber of the...

H. L. Hunley , often referred to as Hunley , was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War....

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Published on Sep 14, 2017

The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical manuscript written on more than 70 leaves...

More History than Archaeology, but interesting anyway:

In a nutshell demonstrates why the Eastern Roman Empire lasted so much longer than the...

Domitilla catacombs unveiled after years of renovation

The catacombs of Domitilla, close to the Appian Way, have been restored with laser and...

What 6000 years? Italians been making wine ever since God made Italians. Or Sicilians, even.

Researchers Discover Italy’s Oldest Wine in...

It is bad that I read this story...

Shipwreck of USS Indianapolis, Which Helped Create the Atomic Bomb, Found After 72 Years

And my first thought...

Found.

Naval researchers announced Saturday that they have found the wreckage of the lost World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis on the floor of...

Swiss Egyptologists study 3000-year-old prosthesis

It is likely to be one of the oldest prosthetic devices in human history: Together with other...

More history than archaeology…

Project page with technical details & more videos:

Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found

The corpse of Louise de Quengo, a widow from an aristocratic family from...

An altogether sad story. Interesting read.

Builders in the old part of the Canadian city of Quebec have unearthed a live cannonball fired by the British during a siege in 1759.

They posed for...

I was perusing a book I own entitled The English Mediaeval House by Margaret Wood and saw two of my favorite quotes that relate to a study of the...

Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in Spain have found the largest collection of naturally preserved human brains in the world, a scientist...

For refined, upper-class ladies in 16th-century Europe, getting a tan, especially on your face, was not a good look.

The implication of such...

Not archaeology stricto sensu , but a fun video about illuminated manuscripts:

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'

New scientific findings suggest that images and hieroglyphics on the wooden...

What is the purpose of this website?

The primary purpose of this site is to provide a series of links to archaeological photo spheres.

It is also...

Because where else?

According to FirstCoast, last October hurricane Matthew damaged a wine shop on St. Augustine’s plaza. After the hurricane,...

Easter Island’s monumental stone heads are well-known, but there’s more to the story: all along, the sculptures have secretly had torsos, buried...

17 mummies discovered in central Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in desert catacombs in Minya province, an unprecedented...

Mes Aynak (Pashto: مس عينک‎, meaning little source of copper ) is a site 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, located in a barren region of...

(not from the link)

Some very good quality pictures by a guy tasked with making panoramas there (the original, not the for tourists copy)....

Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by...

Egypt unearths 8 mummies in 3,500-year-old tombs

Cairo (CNN)Egyptian officials unearthed eight mummies, 10 colorful sarcophagi and numerous...

Quite impressive.

Legendary sunken treasure discovered in SW China

CHENGDU, March 20 (Xinhua) -- A centuries-old legend that a vast booty of treasure belonging to...

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The development of the Azilian in Western Europe 14,000 years ago is considered a “revolution” in Upper Paleolithic Archaeology. One of...

Lycurgus Cup: A Piece of Ancient Roman Nanotechnology

In the 1950s, the British Museum came into possession an ancient glass chalice called the...

From Lake Nemi ( Nemorensis Lacus ), drained by Mussolini, boat later destroyed by artillery fire during WWII.

Giant 3,000-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II found buried in a Cairo slum is hailed as 'one of the most important discoveries ever'...

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Found this blade at a show this pase weekend. I used to collect swords, American mostly, sold off all but a few. The...

More History than Archeology, hope I won't get banned… :mrgreen:

The text is even read in old French pronunciation!

Melbourne based archaeological virtual reality startup, Lithodomos VR, has closed a $900,000 AUD (679,500 USD) seed funding round. The company is...

Came across this in Archeology Mag today. Interesting that the place of execution of the Salem witches could be forgotton. This topic has interested...

Board game and luxuries discovered in Crusader castle in the Galilee

Archaeologists exploring the enigmatic Teutonic fort also found projectiles...

An iconic Bronze Age girl who was buried in Denmark about 3,400 years ago came from a foreign land, a new analysis of her hair and teeth suggests....

Eds Coral Castle Quarry and Flywheel, Engineering Mystery Solved

Its about 20 min long a tad boring, but it does seem to explain this modern...

3,800-Year-Old 'Tableau' of Egyptian Boats Discovered

More than 120 images of ancient Egyptian boats have been discovered adorning the inside of a...