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A Columned Building in Guatemala Reveals the Moment When the Maya Began to Share Power
2+ hour ago (1364+ words) Researchers discover in Ucanal a 9th-century structure that may have functioned as a "council house," where leaders met horizontally and in view of the public. As the article explains, these kings ruled through systems of surveillance and control that were…...
Remains of the Temple of the god Pelusius discovered in the ancient city of Pelusium in Egypt: a massive structure with canals connected to the Nile
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (766+ words) After six years of archaeological excavation work at the Tell el-Farama site, located in the ancient city of Pelusium in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities has brought to light…...
Archaeologists find and document the hydraulic system that supplied water for a thousand years to the ancient Greek city of Amphipolis
17+ hour, 56+ min ago (634+ words) The bilateral collaboration between the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Granada (UGR) and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres, known as EAA/MYA (Study of the Aqueducts of Amphipolis), has made public the findings obtained during…...
Finding in Poland Reveals Lactose-Free Milk Drinking Rituals and Female Secret Societies in the Neolithic
22+ hour, 2+ min ago (793+ words) An international team of archaeologists has discovered at the S'aw'cinek site, in central Poland, a set of ceramic vessels demonstrating that more than 5, 000 years ago collective rituals with low-lactose dairy drinks were already being celebrated. The discovery, published in the…...
New findings in the Plain of Jars of Laos, the megalithic structures that still nobody knows when or by whom they were created
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (757+ words) Since 2016 an archaeological team made up of researchers from Australia and Laos, led by Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly and Thonglith Luangkhoth, has developed a research project in the so-called Plain of Jars, located in the province of Xieng Khouang, in…...
A mound on a small Norwegian island contains a pre-Viking-era ship burial that matches the Sutton Hoo graves in England in age
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (1597+ words) A team of archaeologists found on the island of Leka, north of Norway, a ship burial buried beneath a huge mound of earth dating to the late 7th or early 8th century, about one hundred years before the beginning of the traditional…...
Pre-Hispanic Equinoctial Alignments Discovered in Cuicuilco: The Apparent Path of the Sun Coincides with the Cempohuallapohualli Calendar
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (474+ words) The researcher responsible for the project, archaeoastronomer Aar'n Uriel Gonz'lez Ben'tez, a member of the Astronomical Society of Iztapalapa, explained that the apparent trajectory of the celestial body over the horizon coincides with the beginning of two veintenas of the…...
A 5, 000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in T'rkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (1318+ words) A team of archaeologists has unearthed at the site of K'll'oba, in Anatolia, a charred bread dating between 3200 and 3000 BC. The discovery reveals that our ancestors were already mixing cereals and legumes and making possibly fermented breads for ceremonial purposes....
A Roman submerged port structure discovered off Asini in the Argolid, with foundations of several piers and docks
1+ week, 49+ min ago (593+ words) An underwater archaeology campaign carried out between September 29 and October 1, 2025 in the waters near the site of Asini, in the municipality of Nauplia in the Argolid (Greece), has made it possible to refine the chronology and function of a large…...
An Engraving Found in Central Spain Shows a Rider with the Oldest Documented Stirrup in the West, Advancing Its Use by More Than a Century
1+ week, 2+ day ago (936+ words) A small brick fragment discovered at an archaeological site in the province of Cuenca in Spain is calling into question one of the most established theories about the military history of Europe. It is a crude but revealing engraving: the…...