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Rare 1,700-year-old relic accidentally uncovered during child’s hunt stuns archaeologists

During a visit to the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert in Israel during a show-and-tell trip, an 8-year-old boy found a 1,700-year-old Roman relic on the surface.

146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity

Crystals preserved inside a prehistoric bone led scientists to revise the estimated age of the archaeological site, suggesting that its stone tools were crafted during a severe ice...

Archaeologists Discover Builders In Mesopotamia Did Something Unusual: But Why?

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in northern Iraq have made an intriguing discovery. The research team found a deliberately constructed feature that offe...

Archeologist believes new technology could reveal where the Lost Ark is truly hidden

A Tennessee-based biblical archaeologist believes new scanning technology could finally help answer one of history’s most enduring mysteries: the location of the Ark of the Covenan...

Buried for 2,500 years: giant lost structure discovered beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta

3,000-year-old Egyptian amulet found in Spanish tomb shocks archaeologists

Oregon Cave Discovery Older Than Egypt’s Great Pyramids

Deep in the high desert of central Oregon, a rock shelter hid two small scraps of hide for more than twelve thousand years. No one knew what they were for most of that time, and wh...

Ancient Pots, Stone Tools Found Near Kambham

Findings point to Megalithic burial practices and prehistoric human activity

Spectacular archaeological finds in Turkey shed new light on origins of Christianity

The remarkable discoveries include the best-preserved early image of Jesus discovered near the Turkish city of Iznik

Rare 15,000-Year-Old Artifact Found In Kents Cavern Has A Fascinating Story To Tell

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - It took many years, but the mystery behind a curious ancient artifact found in Kents Cavern in Torquay, U.K., has finally been solved, and the 15...

Archaeologists Discover Prehistoric Mountain Cave Packed With Mysterious Green Mineral

A prehistoric Pyrenees cave may have been an early copper-processing camp repeatedly used for thousands of years, with archaeologists also uncovering child remains and symbolic jew...

Early Humans Returned to This Pyrenees Cave for 2,000 Years and Left Bones, Hearths, and Rare Jewelry

Learn more about Cave 338 and the artifacts researchers discovered inside of if, which indicate it was a valuable meeting spot for nearly 2,000 years. 

Archaeologists uncover massive ancient site during rail project, including rare Roman find

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have discovered over 1,000 artifacts before railway construction, including a rare Roman-era metal wire drawplate.

Mysterious Ancient Tunnel Discovered Beneath Jerusalem Streets

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), archaeologists unearthed a […] The post Mysterious Ancient Tunnel Discovered Beneath...

This 15,000-Year-Old Discovery Changes What We Know About Early Human Creativity

Clay ornaments created 15,000 years ago show that symbolic expression began before agriculture. Evidence suggests both children and adults participated, highlighting early social a...

Prehistoric cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle reveals 120,000 years of human and animal history

Significant discovery made at home of best Viking-age sculpture collection in Europe

A SIGNIFICANT find at the home of one of the most “impressive” collections of early medieval sculptures found in Europe has been made with another historic fragment discovered by a...

An Archaeologist Found Dozens Of Religious Artifacts In An English River — And Now He Knows Why

For years, archaeologist Gary Bankhead kept finding religious artifacts clustered within one section of England's River Wear, including a 19th-century Russian icon depicting Jesus...

Remarkably Intact Iron Age Timber-And-Stone Structure Unearthed In Aschaffenburg, Germany

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Workers discovered archaeological structures dating to the 4th century BC while building a stormwater overflow basin north of the Willigis Bridge in...

Archaeologists uncover massive artifact depicting pharaoh thought to have challenged Moses in Exodus

According to a report from Fox News, archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a massive ancient statue believed to depict King Ramses II, the powerful pharaoh widely associated by sc...

Buried Roman sanctuary discovered beneath Frankfurt hints at shocking rituals

A hidden Roman sanctuary discovered beneath Frankfurt is offering rare clues about ancient rituals, including possible human sacrifice. With major funding secured, scientists are n...

Archaeologists Just Found 260 Mysterious Burial Monuments Across The Sahara That Were Built Before The Egyptian Pyramids

Archaeologists recently identified 260 enclosure burials in Sudan's Atbai Desert that date back as far as 4000 B.C.E. and hold the remains of humans and livestock from an unknown n...

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Israel aims to become the leader in archaeological knowledge within three years as they develop an open database and transform it into an advanced scientific repository using Googl...

Archaeologists Stumble Upon a Roman Villa When Expecting to Find Nothing at Their Project Site

Preparatory archaeology work at an English wind farm development site has turned up two incredible discoveries. The first was a Roman villa and bathhouse, and the second was a Neol...