As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank its teeth into a young man’s thigh bone.
Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast England, provide the first…
Category: Arch/ Anthro
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Significant archaeological discoveries near Inverness
Archaeologists have made several major discoveries at the site of the upcoming Old Petty Championship Golf Course at Cabot Highlands, near Inverness, Scotland.
A study led by Avon Archaeology Highland uncovered remnants of Neolithic wooden…
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Maya ritual offering found in Yucatán caves
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have recovered a globular ceramic pot in Zumpango Cave, part of the extensive Garra de Jaguar system.
Located in Mexico’s municipality of Quintana Roo, Zumpango Cave…
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Archaeologists find UAE’s first major Iron Age necropolis
The Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi has announced the discovery of the first major Iron Age necropolis in the United Arab Emirates.
The necropolis was discovered by the Archaeology Section of DCT Abu Dhabi’s Historic Environment…
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Ramses III inscription discovered in Jordan’s Wadi Rum
Jordan’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of an inscription bearing the seal of Ramses III in the Wadi Rum Reserve, Jordan.
Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III, the second pharaoh of Egypt’s Twentieth Dynasty, is…
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Prince’s royal tomb discovered in Saqqara
An archaeological mission led by Dr. Zahi Hawass has discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, the son of King Userkaf, founder of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty.
Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara is one of the most important cemeteries of…
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Artefacts from Genghis Khan era rediscovered
Researchers at the Siberian Federal University (SFU) have rediscovered a collection of artefacts from the era of Genghis Khan while cataloguing undocumented objects in the storerooms of the Kytmanov Yenisei Museum-Reserve.
The collection includes…
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Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior
On a bright, late-summer day in north-central Europe around 300,000 years ago, a team of perhaps a couple dozen hunters got into their assigned positions for a big kill.
Little did they know that remnants of this lethal event would…
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Skull may belong to King Matthias Corvinus
A skull unearthed in the ruins of Hungary’s former royal coronation site may belong to King Matthias Corvinus.
Matthias Corvinus, also known as Matthias I, ruled as King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. During his reign, Matthias…
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Ancient Egyptian settlement discovered near Alexandria
Archaeologists excavating at Kom el-Nugus west of Alexandria have discovered the remains of a New Kingdom settlement.
Kom el-Nugus is situated on a ridge surrounded by modern developments between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Mariout. The eastern…
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