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2,000-year-old Greek lecture hall discovered in Italy is first of its kind
The ancient school complex had a gymnasium with a large swimming pool and 650-foot tracks, archaeologists said.
Archaeologists Who Believe They Found Noah’s Ark Reveal Plan To Dig It Up
Archaeologists have revealed their plan to dig up the site where they believe Noah's Ark is located after conducting numerous soil samples at the ...
Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools
A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...
Older Than Stonehenge? Groundbreaking Discovery at “Unusual” Ancient Burial Site Rewrites Neolithic History
New research reveals that Flagstones in Dorset dates back to 3,200 BC, offering new insight into the origins of monumental ...
A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
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Lost City of the Samurai
Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...
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New Discoveries at the Temple of Ramses II Reveal Its Rich History
Archeological work at Ramses II's mortuary, known as the Ramesseum, has uncovered a school, stone workshops, and storage ...
Peru’s ancient irrigation systems succeeded in turning deserts into farms because of the culture − without it, the systems failed
Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern societies realize. Glacier loss adds to the challenge today.
A Student Had a Hunch About a Stone Circle. Turns Out a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site Was Beneath It.
A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, ...
Visiting the Titanic is suddenly a lot easier than you think
Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.
Ancient artifacts made of volcanic glass keep turning up in Canada. But how?
Obsidian does not naturally occur in Alberta where the artifacts are being unearthed at Early Prehistoric archaeological ...
‘Rare’ lost tomb of Roman gladiator found 2,000 years later in ‘extraordinary’ discovery: scientists
Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...