After more than four decades of excavations at the Maya city of Caracol, University of Houston archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase have uncovered the long-lost tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the city’s founding ruler.
Caracol was a major Maya polity…
Category: Arch/ Anthro
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Carved human face found in Polish lake
Archaeologists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) have made the remarkable discovery of a carved wooden beam in the waters of Lake Lednica, located between Poznań and Gniezno in west-central Poland.
Made from oak, the beam features a…
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Crystalline arrowhead among new discoveries at Hedkammen
Archaeologists from Arkeologerna have uncovered a crystalline arrowhead crafted from quartzite during excavations south of Skellefteå in northern Sweden.
The discovery was made during a study of the Hedkammen ridge, revealing over 300…
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Greenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s archaeological past
A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July 10 in Science, suggests that humans (and their sled dogs) arrived in the region roughly 1,000 years ago…
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Lost medieval town rediscovered
Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have uncovered physical remains of the lost medieval town of Hamarkaupangen in Hamar, Norway.
It is not known when Hamarkaupangen was founded, but historical texts…
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A drowned landscape held clues to the lives of ancient human relatives
A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus from the seabed. The discovery, described in four studies in the June Quaternary Environments and Humans, reveals a lost…
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Blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seabed
Archaeologists have recovered twenty-two stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Also known as the Lighthouse of Pharos, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was completed during the reign of Ptolemy…
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Gravestone depicting 13th century knight unearthed in central Gdańsk
Archaeologists from ArcheoScan have unearthed a rare gravestone depicting a medieval knight during excavations in the centre of Gdańsk, Poland.
The site under investigation was once home to a 12th-century wooden church and later a 14th-century…
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Angler unexpectedly fishes out a mysterious medieval sword
An angler fishing in the Vistula River in Warsaw has made an unexpected discovery, a medieval sword dating back hundreds of years.
The sword, now under the care of the Warsaw Conservator of Monuments, is remarkably well-preserved, with its blade,…
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300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Discovered in China
Archaeologists have unearthed an assemblage of 35 wooden tools — digging sticks and small, complete, hand-held pointed tools — at the Early Paleolithic site of Gantangqing in southwestern China. This discovery reveals that hominins who…
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