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An Amateur Metal Detectorist in the U.K. Has Struck History-Lover’s Gold: A 16th-Century Pendant With Links to King Henry VIII
It is the most significant Tudor find in 25 years. Gold chain with pendant associated with Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon (c. 1521). Photo:…
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Archaeologists Discover 60 High-Ranking Renegade Mummies in a Tomb of an Ancient Egyptian Opposition Figure in Luxor
Important Egyptians chose to be interred in Amenhotep-Huy’s burial place because he opposed Akhenaten’s controversial move to monotheism. The tomb of the Vizier Amenhotep-Huy in…
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Archaeologists Uncover London’s Largest Roman Mosaic in 50 Years
One of London’s newest landmarks, a glass skyscraper known as the Shard, evidently shares space with one the city’s oldest hidden treasures: a nearly preserved…
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Japanese Archaeologists Spot More Than 150 New Nazca Lines in Peru Using Aerial Footage Taken by Drones
The team from Yamagata University has identified a total of 358 geoglyphs so far. Once again, a team of archaeologists from Japan’s Yamagata University have…
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A 1,700-Year-Old Castle Was Among the Thousands of Buildings Destroyed by the Deadly Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
The Gaziantep Castle, built in the second and third centuries, was among the more than 3,000 buildings destroyed. A view of the damaged Gaziantep Castle…
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Archaeologists Unearth Roman Mosaic in Rural British Town
In 1963, a British blacksmith discovered a massive, nearly complete Roman mosaic pavement at Hinton St Mary in the region of Dorset. It was considered…
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Aww, Archaeologists Have Discovered an Adorable Version of Egypt’s Most Famous Monument: A Miniature Sphinx
The statue is a much smaller iteration of the famed Great Sphinx of Giza, but sculpted perhaps 2,500 years later. The Roman-era mini sphinx discovered…
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Archaeologists on Easter Island Have Discovered a Previously Unknown Moai Statue Buried in a Dried-Out Lake Bed
A new moai statue has been found on Rapa Nui, a Chilean territory also known as Easter Island, prompting excitement among researchers that there may…
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Rock-Cut Chambers Found in Ancient Zeugma’s Mosaic-Laden ‘House of the Muses’
Archaeologists have uncovered two rock-cut chambers in the House of the Muses in the ancient city of Zeugma in southeastern Turkey, the Hurriyet Daily News…
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Archaeologists Discover Another Buried Sphinx In Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists working on a groundwater reduction project at the Kom Ombo Temple in Aswan have discovered a sandstone sphinx, according to the Egyptian Ministry…