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1 day ago · The first text revealed on the scroll. OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a charred scroll of papyrus measuring more than 30 feet long from Herculaneum, a Roman city buried in ash during ...

1 day ago · ALMENDRALEJO, SPAIN—According to an El País report, researchers from Tera S.L. discovered a 4,900-year-old fortress on a hill in southwestern Spain. The pentagon-shaped fortress was surrounded ...

Cartonnage Statuette. Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most ...

Lidar mapping has made finding lost cities buried deep within dense jungle much easier than it was decades ago, when archaeologists were forced to traverse thick vegetation on foot.

Features May/June 2024. Searching for Lost Cities From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time

INDIA: One of the keys to sustaining the flourishing civilizations of the Indus Valley may have been the development of dairy production. Isotope analysis of lipid residues from ceramic vessels ...

Bringing the Past to Life. A RCHAEOLOGY magazine brings readers close to the human past with stories from every corner of the world. We engage and entertain our readers with lively storytelling ...

(Leping Jiang) CHINA: Microfossil residue analysis of ceramic cups found in a 9,000-year-old burial mound at Qiaotou indicates that the dead were sometimes commemorated through ritual beer ...