From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone ...
On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.
In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is ...
A joint Greek-Chinese team has finished its first season at Angelokastro, in western Greece, where a village grew into the city of Arsinoe thanks to an Egyptian queen. It has uncovered a square ...
View of the apse and choir of the mountain-top church during excavations in 2022. Credit: A. Guicheteau, Inrap Archaeologists excavating a wooded hill in Burgundy have found a large church, buildings ...
A team excavating Augusta Raurica, a Roman colony near Basel in Switzerland, has unearthed a complete iron window grille 1.7 meters (5 ft 7 in) underground, with five bars and two nails still in place ...
The pillar with the 56-oracle inscription in the place of discovery. Credit: Kileci, Ş., Tüner Önen, N., & Özüdoğru, Ş. 2026 / Excavation Archive A limestone pillar found in 2024 at Kibyra, in ...
Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had ever ...
Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades ...
Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils ...
Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The deity ...