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The Praeneste fibula (the brooch of Palestrina ) is a golden fibula or brooch, today housed in the Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in...

Greek police break up gang that excavated, sold antiquities

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police said Wednesday they have broken up a major gang that...

I like things that are sort of messages from the past, an inscription in an old book that no one has noticed for 300 years, an arrow fired into a...

X-Ray tomography (with the synchrotron in Grenoble, used only to produce X-Rays):

The scrolls aren't your typical 2,000-year old papyri...

Archaeologists have virtually reconstructed an ancient Pompeii house in 3D, revealing the beauty of a well-to-do Italian home almost 2,000 years...

Archaeological team prepares 4,000-year-old Hittite meals

The 4,000-year-old Hittite cuisine was cooked in Alacahöyük, an important Neolithic...

Well that's what the man says.

Iraq’s Transport Minister Kazem Finjan claims that the first airport in the world was built by ancient aliens....

Sorry guys, found no good video in English but I'll summarize the comments and you'll get it easily from the graphics:

The foundations have been...

A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find

Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species...

Monumental Forgotten Gardens of Petra Rediscovered After 2,000 Years

Petra is perhaps best known for its sandstone canyon that leads directly to...

Experts using a novel computer imaging program have for the first time virtually unwrapped an ancient scroll too burned and fragile to be opened.

In...

A 2,100-year-old marble mother goddess sculpture of Kybele has been unearthed during excavations in the Black Sea province of Ordu’s Kurul Castle,...

Ötzi the Iceman was a dapper dresser. About 5,300 years ago, he sported a fur hat made from a brown bear, a sheepskin loincloth, leggings and a coat...

High-tech imaging reveals rare precolonial Mexican manuscript hidden from view for 500 years

Researchers from the Bodleian Libraries and from...

An interesting article about what lies beneath the streets of NYC.

The fact that there are steam pipes under there always surprised me.

Two...

Remarkable ancient structure found just two miles from Stonehenge

Exclusive: Stonehenge had a close, wooden rival of gigantic proportions - that...

Steve1989 is part of the youtube niche of people who review MREs. He somehow got a hold of one from 1943 and opens it.

Seeing it full of...

Ancient Poop Sticks Offer Clues to the Spread of Disease Along the Silk Road

The parasites found within the 2,000-year-old-feces smeared on bamboo...

Time traveling to the mother tongue

The sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology...

I have seen this before, but it popped up again in one of my other haunts

Ancient D20 Emerges From The Ashes of Time

Jokes about Ptolemaic nerds...

The earliest bra. Found in Austria.

Using both their archaeological context—the fill layer was likely created during a fifteenth-century renovation...

Philistines more sophisticated than given credit for, say reseachers

Discovery of 3,000-year-old cemetery in Ashkelon will dispel many myths and...

Always enjoyed the story about the goddess and her temple at ‘Ain Dara. There is a lot of crapola on Al Gore's interwebs. Wiki is fairy decent,...

This is for Ed, I would like your thoughts on this movie. I thought it was amazing, a sci fi with little but talking. And yes it's in archaeology.

Ship Photos – Real Viking Ship Completes North Atlantic Crossing

The world’s largest viking ship has arrived in North America after crossing the...

Dunno if that counts as archeology, but I found it interesting:
Medieval Book Historian Erik Kwakkel Discovers and Catalogs 800-Year-Old Doodles in...

We post pictures of all sorts of ugly black guns with little emotional appeal. I thought that I'd share a thing that I got some time ago....

Because the Conquistados were here in the late 15th early 16th c.

There is a long history of discovery of articfacts in central/north central...

Fascinating stuff.

Britain's oldest handwritten documents discovered in City of London

Apparently, back when London was the Roman colony of...

I sorta wanted this primarily for current events, ironic as that concept is given the context, but also for objects that one might come across or...

Interesting stuff comes up in the news and I, and some of you, purloin items from museums and private collections so we now have a place to share...