Ancient Roman tombs, shrine to Hercules discovered in Rome suburb dig
While the tombs and the shrine were found within the modern city's boundaries, they would have been situated outside the ancient walls of Rome.
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Human hand outline may be oldest rock art in the world, researchers say
Italy discovers basilica design by ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, 'father of architecture'
Digital scans unveil new love notes and sketches on ancient Pompeii wall
High-tech cleaning brings back brutal detail of Rome’s Danube wars
The hand-held lasers concentrate flickering beams of light onto the stone, with the heat they generate lifting away black deposits of pollution to reveal the white Carrara marble beneath.
New frescoes unearthed in villa near Pompeii show 'extraordinary details and colors'
Archaeologists found a nearly complete peahen fresco, missing its head, dating to the mid-first century B.C., that may have belonged to Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of Emperor Nero.
Israeli AI, drone imagery revolutionizing mapping of archaeological sites
“Sites that appear on the surface as scattered stones suddenly become coherent, organized spaces, and it saves a lot of research time,” Dr. Yitzchak Jaffe said.
Hanukkah discovery: Rare Hasmonean lamp, Second Temple stylus found near Jerusalem
The Civil Administration said the artifacts add to a growing corpus of Second Temple–era material recovered in recent years across the West Bank.
Ancient lead menorah pendant sheds light on Jewish presence in Byzantine Jerusalem
Cast almost entirely of lead, the pendant is decorated on both sides with an identical image of a menorah framed within a circular border.
Tomb raiders: Italy busts massive archaeological looting ring, recovers 10,000 artifacts
Officers seized around 10,000 archaeological artifacts, including 7,000 coins issued by various Greek city-states that existed on Sicily in ancient times.
Hanukkah miracle: Israel discovers evidence of Judah Maccabee’s battlefield near Jerusalem
The site is widely identified with the ancient village of Bet Zecharia, where the Seleucid army and the forces of Judah Maccabee clashed in what is known as the fifth Maccabean battle.
Oldest-known fire-making found in Britain, pushing Neanderthal mastery back 415,000 years
"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.
Neanderthals were selectively targeted for cannibalism in Ice Age Europe, study reveals - study
Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of Neanderthal bones in northern EU.
In first-ever discovery, archaeologists find ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off Alexandria coast
Archaeologists uncovered the first known thalamegos near Alexandria’s ancient port, a 35-meter pleasure boat matching Strabo’s account and preserved with Greek graffiti and timberwork.
