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- Tomb of Wife and Son Maybe Related to Alexander the GreatΑrchaeologists from the 28th Ephorate of Antiquities unearthed a tomb in the city of Amphipolis, near Serres, northern Greece, which they believe could belong to the wife and son of Alexander the Great, Roxane and Alexander IV. The circular precinc...
- Button found on St. Augustine ShipwreckA corroded uniform button found in the mud off the St. Augustine Beach pier could be the “smoking gun” that leads to identifying a mystery shipwreck. And the copper coin with a face of what could be Britain’s King George found by a Lighthouse...
- 3500-year-old Minoan building found in CreteAn accidental meeting in 1982 between a well-known Greek archaeologist, Yannis Sakellarakis, and a shepherd from Crete has led to an archaeological discovery of great importance – Zominthos, a settlement from the Minoan era on the plain by the same...
- Archaeologists find 2,000 year-old beef portion in ancient tomb in northwest ChinaScientists arrived at the conclusion after months of analysis confirmed the substance's makeup, according to Hu Songmei, a paleontologist from the provincial archaeological institute. Xinhua news agency reports that according to Hu, the beef -- mo...
- La Bastida Unearths 4,200-Year-Old Fortification, Unique in Continental Europeon Sep 28, 2012 in forts archaeologyThe archaeological excavations carried out this year at the site of La Bastida (Totana, Murcia) have shed light on an imposing fortification system, unique for its time. The discovery, together with all other discoveries made in recent years, reaffir...
- Oldest Ivory Workshop in the World Discovered in Saxony-AnhaltExcavations at the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach near Zeitz have uncovered a 35,000-year-old ivory workshop. In an international co-operation project, archaeologists from the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for the Evolution...
- The Collapse of Biblical ArchaeologyHow should the historian deal with the biblical texts on the one hand and archaeological data on the other? The collapse of “biblical archaeology” has left many scholars without any agreed procedure. At one pole is a clique clinging to “biblica...
- 2,600-Year-Old Buddhist Site Will Soon Be Turned Into A Chinese Copper MineMes Aynak is a 2,600-year-old Buddhist site in Logar province, Afghanistan, that is home to both an ancient archaeological site and one of the largest copper deposits in the world. In 2007 a Chinese government-owned company paid $3 billion to lease...
- Ancient Buddhist Statue Made of Meteorite(Credit: Dr. Elmar Buchner) An ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analyzed by a team of scientists led by Dr. Elmar Buchner from the Institute of Planetology, University of Stuttgart. The probabl...
- 1,000 Years Old Funerary Chamber Discovered in Michoacanon Sep 21, 2012 in archaeology news top archaeology news archaeology headlines discoveries anthropology news archaeologyPhoto: DMC INAH. H. Montaño. The discovery of a funerary chamber of more than a 1,000 years old, in the Archaeological Zone of Tingambato Michoacan, with an unidentified character’s burial, accompanied by 19,000 green stone beads, shells and hu...
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