An 1,800-year-old statue of a woman was unearthed in İzmir, Turkish officials announced on June 12. In a Twitter post, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry’s Department of Excavations said the statue was found in the ancient city of Metropolis lo...

Yetkililerin 12 Haziran'da yaptığı açıklamaya göre, İzmir'de yaklaşık 1800 yıllık bir kadın heykeli ortaya çıkarıldı. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Kazı Daire Başkanlığı, Twitter'dan yaptığı paylaşımda heykelin İzmir'in Torbalı ilçesindeki Metropolis an...

The stone was found by a "Project 500" worker from the Parks and Nature Authority while cleaning and preparing nature paths in the Nitzana National Park.

Archaeologists working at the Neanderthal site of Abri du Maras in France have discovered a 46,000-year-old cord fragment — the oldest known direct evidence of fiber technology.

Archaeologists have unearthed 170,000-year-old whole, charred rhizomes of flowering plants from the genus Hypoxis in a cave in southern Africa. These botanical remains represent the earliest direct evidence for the cooking of plants’ underground stor...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati has found two Bronze Age tombs in Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, while investigating the area around the recently-discovered tomb of the Griffin Warrior. The 3,500-y...

Mega-structures of the Trypillia culture, which was part of the larger Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, were public buildings that served a variety of economic and political purposes, according to new research by archaeologists from Germany and Ukraine.

Climate-related megadroughts built the foundation for the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (912 to 609 BCE), the largest and most powerful empire of its time, a new study published in the journal Science Advances suggests.

Göbeklitepe'deki dikili taşlarla benzerlik gösteren ve ilk belirlemelere göre neolitik döneme ait "T" şeklinde 250 dikilitaşın bulunduğu Şanlıurfa'daki Karahantepe'de kazılar başladı.

The new Urartu Museum building in the south of Van Castle was opened in the eastern province of Van, moving from its former premises after receiving damage during earthquakes that rattled the ancient city on Oct. 23 and Nov. 9, 2011.

Archaeologists digging at an early hominin site in China have discovered two engraved bone fragments that date back nearly 115,000 years.

The street that provides access to Anatolia’s largest ancient stadium, the Laodicea Stadium, is being unearthed. The stadium is located next to the ancient city of Laodicea and has a capacity of 25,000 to 30,000 people.

Zooarchaeologist Masaki Eda of Hokkaido University Museum and his colleagues studied anatomical characteristics such as the size and shape of beaks, heads, necks, bodies, wings, tails, and feet of 16 bird figures etched in the ground in Peru’s southe...

An international team of archaeologists has found 8,000-year-old eggs of the whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) in coprolites (fossilized feces) from Çatalhöyük, a prehistoric settlement inhabited from about 7100 to 5600 BCE — the earliest archaeological...

In Grotta della Basura, a deep cave near Toirano in northern Italy, a team of archaeologists has made a surprising discovery: a number of human hand- and footprints on the clay-rich floor of the cave — evidence that a small and heterogeneous group of...