Kiona N. Smith 
Enlarge / The skeleton was found buried with two buckles, which likely once held a shroud in place. Mazzarelli et al. 2019 reader comments 151 with 87 posters participating Share this story In a medieval Italian cemetery, archaeologists recently exhumed … Read more
reader comments 81 with 48 posters participating Share this story All that’s left today of an ancient boat discovered in 2018 in what was formerly Uruk is the bitumen, black tar that once coated its framework of reeds, palm leaves, … Read more
Salazar et al. 2022 reader comments 71 with 41 posters participating Share this story A recent study of geological deposits and archaeological remains has identified a massive earthquake and tsunami that wiped out communities along the coastline of Chile’s Atacama … Read more
Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reader comments 84 with 35 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists in Egypt recently rediscovered two sphinxes that guarded the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun. Despite 3,400 years of … Read more
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reader comments 29 with 27 posters participating Share this story Twenty-four hundred years ago, Heraklion was ancient Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today, the ancient city lies submerged beneath Abu Qir Bay, a … Read more
Pawlowicz and Downum 2021 reader comments 42 with 24 posters participating Share this story Real archaeological fieldwork is seldom as exciting as it looks in the movies. You tend to get fewer reanimated mummies, deadly booby traps, and dramatic shootouts … Read more