Modern technology reveals old secrets about the great, white Maya road
Did a powerful queen of Cobá, one of the greatest cities of the ancient Maya world, build the longest Maya road to invade a smaller, isolated neighbor and gain a foothold against the emerging Chichén Itzá empire?
Archaeologists uncover a tantalising remnant of the medieval mansions of the Strand
Archaeologists uncover a tantalising remnant of the medieval mansions of the Strand beneath London’s Courtauld Gallery.
OI archaeologists discover lost city that may have conquered the kingdom of Midas
Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute have discovered a lost ancient kingdom dating to 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom ruled by King Midas, in battle.
Perth Pictish find offers glimpse into Scotland’s warrior past
Archaeologists have carefully recreated images of a figure on a Pictish stone, discovered during the construction of a road in 2017, with the details uncovered offering new insights into Scotland's warrior past.
Old Irish ‘clachan’ found in South Australia
The oldest known Australian example of a communal type of Irish settlement has been 'unearthed' in a dusty paddock in rural South Australia.
Ancient plant foods discovered in Arnhem Land, Australia
Australia's first plant foods - eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago - have been discovered in Arnhem Land.
5,200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange
Most people are familiar with the historical Silk Road, but fewer people realize that the exchange of items, ideas, technology, and human genes through the mountain valleys of Central Asia started almost three millennia before organized trade networks formed.
Hot pots helped ancient Siberian hunters survive the Ice Age
The research - which was undertaken at the University of York - also suggests there was no single point of origin for the world's oldest pottery.
New study debunks myth of Cahokia’s Native American lost civilization
A University of California, Berkeley, archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary demise of Cahokia, North America's most iconic pre-Columbian metropolis.
Late Neolithic Italy was home to complex networks of metal exchange
During the 4th and 3rd millennia BC, Italy was home to complex networks of metalwork exchange, according to a studyby Andrea Dolfini of Newcastle University (UK), and Gilberto Artioli and Ivana Angelini of the University of Padova (Italy).
How we solved the Greek monkey mystery – and found an important clue to Bronze Age world
The blue monkeys painted on the walls of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini are among many animals found in the frescoes of this 3,600-year-old city.
Puzzle of early Neolithic house orientations finally solved
Human behaviour is influenced by many things, most of which remain unconscious to us. One of these is a phenomenon known among perception psychologists...
Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, study suggests
The mysterious disappearance of Greenland's Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down to the overexploitation of walrus populations for their...
Large scale feasts at ancient capital of Ulster drew crowds from across Iron Age Ireland
People transported animals over huge distances for mass gatherings at one of Ireland's most iconic archaeological sites, research concludes.
Archaeologists discover the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don
Valerii Guliaev, the head of Don expedition, announced the first results of the examination on the 6th of December at the session of Academic Council of IA RAS.
