Excavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted in the middle of the last century.
Humans may have ritualistically “killed” objects to remove their symbolic power, some 5,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new international study of marine pebble tools from an Upper Palaeolithic burial site in Italy suggests.
The Amazonian rainforest was transformed over two thousand years ago by ancient people who built hundreds of large earthworks.
An international team of researchers has managed to pinpoint, to within three months, a medieval volcanic eruption in east Asia the precise date of which has puzzled historians for decades.
New research indicates that Baltic hunter-gatherers were not swamped by migrations of early agriculturalists from the Middle East, as was the case for the rest of central and western Europe.
An international team has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image, in a southwestern French rockshelter.
Vagnari is situated in a valley of the Basentello river, just east of the Apennine mountains in Puglia (ancient Apulia) in south-east Italy. The archaeological project, has been directed by Maureen Carroll since 2012.
New research on the Sun Temple archaeological site in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado
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New clues to Maya collapse
Using the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, archaeologists have developed a high-precision chronology that sheds new light on patterns leading up to the two major collapses of the ancient civilization.
Archaeological research has just been published which reveals new evidence for vitrified hillforts and warfare in early medieval Scotland.
The timing of the first entry of humans into North America across the Bering Strait has now been set back 10,000 years.
In August 2016, a team from Applied Archaeology International (AAI) were invited to the annual Eyak Cultural and Language Camp in Cordova, Alaska, hosted by Orca Adventure Lodge. The team included two archaeologists, three interns from the Kenaitze Tribe, and Elders from Australia – as part of AAI’s annual cultural ranger internship and international cultural exchange program.
Canary Island farmers have cultivated the same types of grain for over a thousand years say researchers.
Research by GUARD Archaeology has just been published, presenting the results of the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project, a multi-disciplinary project carried out between 1996 and 2005 in the Central Highlands of Scotland.
