2+ hour, 49+ min ago  (668+ words) A new study has uncovered a striking contradiction in the ancient Maya city of Ucanal. Residents built an advanced water management system that kept drinking water clean for centuries; however, the same system also exposed them to toxic mercury poisoning....

4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (450+ words) A 3,500-year-old bronze axe and a bronze garment pin have been found in Switzerland, beneath the Schlossfelsen outcrop above Burg im Leimental, a village near the French border. Archaeology Baselland reported the discovery after a systematic survey carried out in…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (494+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 2,500-year-old Iron Age village in H'llhorst, western Germany, during preparations for a new municipal fire station. The discovery was made on Lohagenweg in the Minden-L'bbecke district. The site sits near the W'hrsiek spring,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (583+ words) Ancient societies often faced severe climate pressure. Droughts and shifting rainfall patterns disrupted farming and reshaped political systems. For the ancient Maya, these stresses intensified between A.D. 800 and 1500, when many major cities in the Lowland region were abandoned. A new study…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (250+ words) The Mani Peninsula, a land where pagan traditions survived long after most of Greece had embraced Christianity, rises dramatically from cliffs and jagged mountains, its secluded coves carved by wind and sea. Other explanations have been proposed, though they are…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (256+ words) Greece's Tatoi Palace is nearing a major public reopening, as authorities prepare to present over 100,000 objects recovered from the former royal estate in a landmark exhibition which will provide a sweeping overview of material linked to Greece's former royal family....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (628+ words) Researchers in Luxor, Egypt, have uncovered a carefully arranged cache of wooden coffins linked to a group of women known as the "Singers of Amun," offering rare insight into temple life and burial practices during a turbulent chapter of ancient…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (635+ words) After more than 1,300 years, water is flowing again beneath the Asopos Bridge at the ancient Greek city of Laodicea (Greek: "), bringing movement back to one of Anatolia's most important Roman-era monuments. Archaeologists say the return of water marks a decisive…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (457+ words) Ancient agriculture is returning to one of the world's most famous archaeological sites as Pompeii brings vines back to land buried by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The project reconnects the ruined Roman city to a farming tradition that once…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (613+ words) While ancient Greece didn't have a police force in the same way we think of them today, they did have systems for maintaining order and enforcing laws. The term "police" used by modern states to describe the body enforcing the…...