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Massive Ancient Drawings Found in Peruvian Desert

Peruvian archaeologists armed with drones have discovered more than 50 new examples of these...

Trove of ancient 'freedom coins' unearthed in Jerusalem

A trove of bronze coins, the last remnants of an ancient Jewish revolt against the Roman...

World's oldest tattoo art found on Egyptian mummy that has been in British Museum for 100 years

Previously, all that academics and museum visitors...

Interesting. I would argue that the death rate is constant. Also note that the greatest bloodletting occurred after women got the right to vote.

Expedition led by Microsoft co-founder locates lost WWII carrier

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) was struck by multiple Japanese...

[quote= The Crown Chronicles ] Bayeux Tapestry will be loaned to UK for exhibition

The famous Bayeux Tapestry is to be loaned to the UK for an...

Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures

In 1811, a group of English and German scholars happened upon the Aphaia Temple, on...

Maybe this belongs in History rather than Archeology but it's almost as if they dug up a new find here. An old, long ignored manuscript was found in...

Fortresses, farmlands of the Maya emerge from massive LiDAR survey

A recent aerial survey revealed thousands of ancient Maya structures previously...

From a year ago:
Researchers Finish Separating World’s Largest Celtic Coin Hoard

Last Friday, conservators at Jersey Heritage finally completed...

New findings on Lao Plain of Jars help unravel ancient mysteries

A joint research team from Australia and Laos has uncovered a new set of human...

Bronze Age artifacts used meteoric iron

You may already be surprised to hear there are iron objects dating back to the Bronze Age, but their...

Bones with Bling: The Amazing Skeletons of the Roman Catacombs

Way back towards the end of the Middle Ages, 1578 to be exact, came the fascinating...

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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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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...

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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...