Archaeology & History A Christmas Miracle? Israeli Archaeologists Are Freshly Excavating a Tomb Believed to Hold the Woman Who Helped Deliver Baby Jesus The Salome Cave is being developed as part of the Judean Kings Trail. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 21, 2022
Archaeology & History Here Are 2022’s 12 Most Mind-Blowing Archaeological Discoveries, From Ancient Lice Combs to the World’s Oldest Mummies Revisit our best stories on the tombs, shipwrecks, and coin hoards unearthed this year. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 20, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists in Denmark Have Unearthed a 5,000-Year-Old ‘Bog Body,’ a Neolithic Skeleton Bearing Traces of Ritual Sacrifice “It doesn’t happen very often that you find a bog body,” said the lead archaeologist. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 20, 2022
Archaeology & History Norwegian Researchers Piloting a Deep Sea Rover Stumbled Upon a Well-Preserved Medieval Shipwreck The wreck was found in Lake Mjøsa, which once served a thriving Viking trade route. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 20, 2022
Archaeology & History 7,000-Year-Old Cotton Fibers Discovered in Israel Are Revealing the Inner Workings of an Ancient International Trade Network The fibers were found in an ancient village in Israel, indicating its place within a global network. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 20, 2022
Archaeology & History U.K. Archaeologists Say That Ancient Tools Discovered Around Stonehenge Point to a More Advanced Society Than Previously Known Researchers have examined several 4,000-year-old tools from a burial site near Stonehenge for the first time. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 16, 2022
Archaeology & History Japanese Archaeologists Spot More Than 150 New Nazca Lines in Peru Using Aerial Footage Taken by Drones The team from Yamagata University has identified a total of 358 geoglyphs so far. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 16, 2022
Archaeology & History The U.S. Has Returned Seven Very Ancient Seals That Were Looted From the Baghdad Museum After One Appeared in an Online Auction The Manhattan District Attorney's Office opened an investigation when one of the seals was offered in an online auction in 2021. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 15, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists Have Pinpointed the Origins of Two Mysterious Sarcophagi Discovered After the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire One body was determined to be a high priest and the other a knight—living centuries apart. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 13, 2022
Archaeology & History Please Don’t Let TikTok Convince You Otherwise—Ancient Rome Definitely Existed The baseless theory is "ancient aliens" level ridiculous. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 11, 2022
Archaeology & History Hurricanes Washed a Mysterious Wooden Structure Ashore in Florida. Now, Archaeologists Say It’s a 19th-Century Cargo Ship Residents had previously speculated that the 100-foot enigma was the work of extraterrestrials. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 9, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists Have Discovered One of the World’s Oldest Pieces of Narrative Art, and It’s Rather NSFW The 11,000-year-old carving was found among the remains of a Neolithic structure in southeastern Turkey. By Artnet News, Dec 8, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists Have Unearthed the First Full-Color Portraits of Egyptian Mummies in More Than a Century The excavation at Gerza also turned up papyri, pottery, and coffins dating back to the Ptolemaic period. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 8, 2022
Archaeology & History Scientists Have Cracked the Origins of ‘Desert Kites,’ Massive Prehistoric Patterns That Were Carved into the Middle Eastern Desert Three studies confirm the long-held hypothesis that the structures were hunting traps. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 7, 2022
Archaeology & History ‘I Just Googled, ‘How Do You Repatriate Antiquities?’’: How One Man Hand-Restituted His Grandmother’s Valuable Artifacts to Diplomats on Embassy Row John Gomperts wanted to give back his Grandma's antiquities so he dropped them off at their respective embassies in Washington, D.C. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 7, 2022
