This week, the Society for American Archaeology published an open letter to Netflix and the television production house ITN requesting that they re-classify its new series Ancient Apocalypse as a work of fiction rather than a docuseries. The show centers … Read more
This photo of the south end of the canal, taken in 2018, shows where the waterway met up with Little Lagoon. Gregory Waselkov In the beachside resort town of Gulf Shores, Alabama, locals had often referred to an odd feature in … Read more
It has lain within a burial chamber, undisturbed, for thousands of years. Now a remarkable Egyptian sarcophagus has emerged from deep beneath the sands near Cairo, to the excitement of archaeologists, who describe it as a hugely significant “dream discovery”. … 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
A rare 4,000-year-old board game made of stone has been uncovered by archaeologists in Oman. Marked with ‘playing fields and cup holes’ the discovery was made during excavations of settlements near the village of Ayn Bani Saidah in the Qumayrah … Read more
Largest ancienct city unearthed in Egypt The ancient city, reported to be the largest ever found in Egypt, dates back to the era of king Amenhotep III, who ruled the ancient kingdom from 1391 to 1353 BC. That’s according to … Read more
The new discovery is in Dhi Qar, southern Iraq, home to many archaeological sites including ziggurat temples, ancient burial grounds, and the so-called Home of Abraham (pictured) Photo: Aziz1005 An ancient urban settlement believed to date back to pre-Babylonian times … 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
Enlarge / Behold, the “Rude Man” chalk giant carved on a hill above the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. Barry Batchelor/PA Images/Getty Images reader comments 159 with 90 posters participating Share this story The Cerne Abbas Giant is … Read more
Enlarge / Spanish archaeologists recreated three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems. Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE reader comments 37 with 32 posters participating Share this story In 1993, a media studies professor at Fordham University named Edward Wachtel … Read more