Unfinished moai attached to bedrock by “keels” along their backs demonstrate how carvers worked underneath from both sides until figures were separated from the source material. This production stage, ...
Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...
What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...
Archaeologists excavating in southwestern France have uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman burial discoveries in recent decades - a richly furnished funeral pyre containing gold treasures, ...
The circular arrangement of pits forms a boundary over two kilometers wide, enclosing more than three square kilometers around the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments. Each pit measures up ...
Archaeological excavations at the heart of London's political power have revealed remarkable prehistoric tools, medieval treasures, and architectural remains spanning six millennia beneath the Palace ...
According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...
Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...
The bones discovered at Goyet represent the largest assemblage of cannibalized Neanderthal remains in northern Europe. Nearly one-third of the 101 skeletal fragments bear unmistakable signs of ...
The sarcophagus was found among abandoned houses in a quarter of Aquincum that had been vacated in the 3rd century and later repurposed as a burial ground. Nearby discoveries included a Roman aqueduct ...
When the Nag Hammadi codices were discovered in Egypt in 1945, the world gained access to a body of writings that challenged some of the most deeply rooted assumptions in Western religion. Among these ...
The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...