Popular Archeology

New Light on an Etruscan Settlement: Marsiliana d’Albegna
by No Author
Excavations in Italy are uncovering finds that are expanding our knowledge of who the ancient Etruscans were and how they lived.
Before Mesa Verde
by Shirley Powell
Uncovering the beginnings of the great Pueblo culture of the American Southwest.
The Dedication of Roman Weapons and Armor in Water as a Religious Ritual
by Brandon Olson
Through chance finds, formal excavations, looting, and dredging operations, several pieces of intact, fully functional Roman weapons and armor have been recovered from aquatic contexts in Gaul and Britain dating from the first century B.C.E to late first century C.E. Some scholars have attempted to explain the phenomenon as a series of accidental losses, while ... Read more »
The Minoan Connection
by No Author
The news-making discoveries that are now emerging from this major archaeological site in Israel.
Ancient Peru: The First Cities
by Kimberly Munro
The first installment of our Ancient Peru series relates what archaeology has revealed about its first cities and civilizations.

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Mesopotamian King Sargon II envisioned ancient city Karkemish as western Assyrian capital

Crusaders made love and war, genetic study finds

First genetic study of the Crusaders confirms that warriors mixed and had families with local people in the near East, and died together in battle.

Neolithic site reveals transition from hunting and gathering to animal herding

Archaeologists examine urine salt levels in the soil to reconstruct the evolution of sheep and goat domestication at 10,000-year-old Turkish settlement.

At last, acknowledging royal women’s political power

Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age

Need for social skills helped shape modern human face

The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good social skills.

Archaeologists discover lost medieval city in Africa

Scholars on the ground have discovered what they believe to be the remains of a long lost medieval city in Ethiopia.

Ancient DNA reveals new branches of the Denisovan family tree

Archaeologists identify first prehistoric figurative cave art in Balkans

New species of early human found in the Philippines

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A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis

Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 years

Military correspondence from the First Temple period discovered on reverse side of well-studied artifact at The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv University researchers say.

New research reveals earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa

Scientists have pioneered a technique to directly date prehistoric rock paintings in southern Africa, which revealed dates much older than previously thought.