Tag: archaelogy

An archaeological mission from the Ain Shams University has uncovered a Roman era sphinx during excavations at the Dendera Temple Complex, located in the Qena Governorate of Egypt.

Studies by archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University reveals new findings on the Jordanian megaliths, dating from 5,000 years ago.

The best known tradition of stone circle construction occurred across the British Isles and Brittany in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with over 1000 examples still surviving to this day.

Ancient DNA recovered from fossils is a valuable tool to study evolution and anthropology. Yet ancient fossil DNA from earlier geological ages has not been found yet in any part of Africa, where it's destroyed by extreme heat and humidity.

Devon farmers who made their home in the same remote location for 1,200 years had a taste for exotic imported food and drink, archaeologists have found.

Skeletal evidence shows that, hundreds of years after the Roman Republic conquered most of the Mediterranean world, coastal communities in what is now south and central Italy still bore distinct physical differences to one another - though the same could not be said of the area around Rome itself.