Archaeology & Art Publications

03/14/2017

Archaeologists have unearthed a black granite statue representing Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III seated on a throne. It was discovered on the west bank of the city of Luxor, Egypt.

Archaeologists working in Luxor have unearthed a magnificent statue of King Amenhotep III of ancient Egypt and several statues and statue parts of the cat goddess Sekhmet meant to protect him.The proj

03/08/2017

Halet Çambel, one of the pioneers of Turkish archaeology, was commemorated today in the Google Doodle for International Women's Day. She was also the first Muslim woman to compete in the Olympics, in 1936.

03/06/2017

Archaeological excavation of the earliest Dyottville glass factory revealed multiple architectural elements, such as furnace clean-out vaults, multiple tempering/annealing oven foundations, a late-nineteenth-century brick floor, and other interior walls encompassing the entire evolution of the glass factory building from its initial construction in 1816 to the final building phase in the late nineteenth century.

02/25/2017

A recent genetic study shows that Neanderthal DNA that survives in people is still controlling how some genes work.

Early humans may have outcompeted Neanderthals, but their influence lives on in DNA some of us inherited after the two interbred

02/25/2017

Excavations in Lincolnshire associated with the construction of a new roadway have uncovered evidence of inhabitation stretching back to the Mesolithic period.

Archeological excavations ahead of the construction of the Lincoln Eastern Bypass have revealed historically significant burial grounds, high-status Roman

02/20/2017

The discovery of the seeds was made during the excavation of a civilian tomb, dating between the middle and late Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.) and early Eastern Han Dynasty (25 A.D. - 220 A.D.) in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

02/16/2017

Archaeologists conducted an investigation at Wye House, a former Maryland plantation still owned and occupied by descendants of the original family and home to the late Frederick Douglass.

02/12/2017

Excavators have uncovered what they believe to be the 1,300-year-old remains of a Mayan prince entombed within a royal complex of the ancient city of Uxul, located in Mexico near the Guatemalan border.

Under a remote Maya palace in the ruined city of Uxul, archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an ancient burial—and a rare artifact.

02/08/2017

A 3-D reconstruction led to the revelation that an artifact excavated in the 1760s from the ruins of the Villa dei Papiri, in the shape of an Italian ham, turned out to be a portable sundial.

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock."

02/05/2017

Recent discoveries add six new rock art sites to the more than 180 already documented in Ladakh, India, enhancing our understanding of formative artistic and cultural influences from north Inner Asia.

Read further to learn more about the sw****ka in Tibetan rock art, a sacred symbol embodying good luck and prosperity in many cultures.

02/01/2017

01/29/2017

The uncovering of a cemetery in Israel containing over 200 human remains gives insight into the culture and lifestyle of the Philistines, a mysterious group of people in the Hebrew bible.

An unprecedented find in southern Israel may finally reveal the origins of one of the Hebrew Bible's greatest villains.