Bioarchaeological investigation of the extraordinary record of human remains and their context from Neolithic Çatalhöyük, a massive archaeological site in Turkey, provides important perspectives on population dynamics, health outcomes, behavioral…

3,000-year-old Saka settlement discovered in Kazakhstan.

A candidate for UNESCO World Heritage status: Umm Al Qaiwain’s ed-Dur temple... Flourishing at the beginning of the Christian era, ed-Dur was a port town that derived its wealth from trade across the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean

Japanese and Russian researchers say a well-preserved carcass of an extinct cave lion cub has been found in permafrost in Russia. Scientists say they found the remains of the cub while digging near a river in northeastern part of Siberia in July…

DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians. Newly discovered ancient teeth dating back 31,000 years are evidence of a new ethnic group in human history and could change know about the first American…

Prehistoric stone engraved with horses found in France. Markings appear on both sides of the sandstone, the National Archaeological Research Institute said.

Aceramic Neolithic site discovered in Cyprus. The announcement followed the completion of the 2019 archaeological mission of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Troodos mountains.

A historical structure believed to belong to the Byzantine era has been unearthed from beneath a restaurant in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne.

During the Umayyad period, a freed slave would become a “mawla” (client) of their former master, and non-Arab converts would become the client of the person who witnessed their conversion, said a British historian.

The association of Greek archaeologists sent a letter to the Greek and Turkish culture ministries and UNESCO. Greek archaeologists have expressed concern over the limited access that visitors have to the Hagia Sophia monument in Trabzon, northeast…

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered a large marble head from Rome’s imperial age that is believed to show Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, music and dance.

Among the newly discovered finds in the village of Slatina, there are various items of household and cult like a bone spoon and ceramic utensils, pintadera, parts of cult sacrificial tables. Slatina is believed to be the site of the oldest human…

Çatalhöyük is one of the earliest Eurasian sites to undergo palaeoparasitological analysis to date. The results inform how intestinal parasitic infection changed as humans modified their subsistence strategies from hunting and gathering to settled…

Mysterious 3,000-year-old fingerprints... Fingerprints of Ancient Masons Reveal Advanced Iron Age Construction Technique: Three-thousand-year old fingerprints have been found on ancient bricks at an Iron Age village in Al Ain.

Using computer simulations to discover where Neanderthals lived. Archaeologist Fulco Sherjon has used computer simulations to identify where and how Neanderthals lived in West Europe. What stood out was that they probably had lots of children and…

Oldest meteorite collection found in the Atacama Desert... 222 meteorites larger than 10 g per squared kilometer per million year... Researchers have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved meteorites that allowed them to reconstruct the rate of falling…