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Archaeology Around the World

Features stories on discoveries, excavations, and artifacts that reveal insights into ancient civilizations and reshape historical timelines.

 Temple of Baal Shamin, Palmyra, Syria.

Oldest known alphabetic writing found on clay cylinders in Syria

 Mystery bamboo cart.

Exposed by melting snows in the Alps, mystery bamboo cart puzzles experts

 The Amazon rainforest.

Archaeologists uncover lost 18th-century Portuguese city in the Amazon rainforest

 Wooden burial chamber at the center of a large burial mound near Riedlingen in Baden-Württemberg.

Archaeologists discover rare well-preserved 2,600-year-old Celtic wooden burial chamber in Germany

 “Dahomey”.

Documentary chronicles return of artworks looted by 19th-century French soldiers to West Africa

 The hoard includes silver pennies minted between 1066 and 1068.

Largest treasure hoard found in England sold for £4.3 million

 Carved from a single piece of oak, the wooden spade survived millennia.

What a 3,500-year-old wooden spade tells us about bronze age life

 Ancient mine gallery in Lavrio.

Study suggests Eastern European miners may have invented the wheel around 3900 BC

 Man-made, or natural? The pyramid at Gunung Padang.

Some researchers think Indonesian pyramid could rewrite human history, dating back to 25,000 BC

 A massive Viking-era cemetery near the village of Tvååker.

Massive Viking-era cemetery excavated, reveals 50-meter ship-shaped stone

 The Lamp of Prince Sarghitmish.

The Lamp of Prince Sarghitmish: record set for most expensive glass piece ever auctioned

 What is going on at The Great Pyramid of Giza?

Egyptian ministry denies destruction of parts of the Great Pyramid

 Bushfire smoldering in Australian Outback.

Ancient Tasmanians used fire to shape their environment 41,600 years ago, earliest evidence shows

 Airbnb: Fight like a gladiator in the colosseum.

Airbnb’s Colosseum Gladiator Experience draws outrage

 Stone statue of Hindu deity in the National Museum of India in New Delhi.

US returns over 1,400 smuggled artefacts to India

 2,000-year-old Roman gladiator-shaped knife handle.

Shaped like a gladiator: Rare 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle discovered in England

 Aztec Death Whistle.

Researchers find Aztec 'death whistles' do weird things to the listeners' brains

 Solomon defeating the devil.

5th-century Turkish amulet shows Solomon defeating the devil, with angels invoked by a scribe

 Glowing jade teapot at the British Museum.

British Museum receives largest donation in its history with Chinese ceramics collection

 Kon-Tiki expedition, 1947. Across the Pacific.

Norwegian museum returns artifacts, skulls taken by explorer back to Easter Island

 Early wheel-like technology.

12,000-year-old spindle whorls discovered in Israel suggest early wheel-like technology

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