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Ninurta and Anzu: A Neo-Assyrian Vision of Order Against Chaos

Rare River God Mosaic Unearthed in Ancient Aspendos

Rare Monolithic Sculpture and Ceremonial Platform Discovered in Veracruz

Roman Curse Tablet Deciphered in Ancient Coriovallum

Lamashtu and Ancient Birth Amulets: Fear, Protection, and Childbirth in Mesopotamia

Caesarea Maritima: Herod’s Roman City by the Sea

Ancient Sled Dogs Helped Arctic Hunters Stay Connected 8,000 Years Ago

Chilpik Dakhma: The Ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence

The Mask of Mictlantecuhtli

Caral May Have Been the Americas’ First Civilization Built Without War

Imperial Roman Villa Discovered at Castel di Guido Near Rome

Roman Marble Busts Found in Ancient Winepress Near Caesarea

Inca Child Sacrifice May Have Strengthened Imperial Rule

Rujm el-Hiri: The Wheel of Ghosts

Ancient Grape Seeds Reveal Chianti’s White-Wine Past

Could an 11-Dot Figurine Preserve One of Mesoamerica’s Earliest Written Numbers?

Dzhubga Dolmen and Doguab River Dolmen 4

9,000-Year-Old Plastered Skulls and Neolithic Memory

Greco-Roman Cemetery Found at Tell Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Nile Delta

Spanish Cave Chamber Shows More Than 11,000 Years of Repeated Human Activity

New Rock Art Discovery in Oman

Oldest Known Maya Lowland Long Count Inscription Identified at El Palmar

4,000-Year-Old Evidence of the Siege of Qabra Discovered in Northern Mesopotamia

The Kings Who Ruled Before the Flood

Iberian DNA Stayed Stable Before Roman Rule, Study Finds

Princely Celtic Tomb with Gold and Chariot Discovered in Germany

7,000-Year-Old Headless Skeletons in Slovakia

Two Equids Discovered in Pompeii Bakery

Roman Luxury Home Found Under School Gym

Ancient Side’s Forgotten Alphabet Revealed

Archaeologists Find Nassau’s First Pirate-Era Shipwrecks

The Twelve-Angled Stone of Cusco

Someone Butchered a Mammoth in a Place Where Humans Were Almost Gone

Britain’s Oldest Known Cave Art Rediscovered in Wales

The Great Ziggurat of Ur: A Monumental Temple of Ancient Mesopotamia

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Ötzi’s Microbes Still Live

Nazca Lines: The Ancient Code in Peru’s Desert

Panama Burials Reveal Colombian Emeralds

Egyptian Kohl Bottle Found in Roman York

12-Year-Old Finds Ancient Gemstone

Marble Aphrodite Found in Egypt

Rare Funerary Cache Uncovered at Ancient Heliopolis Cemetery in Matariya

The 4,000-Year-Old Mystery of Harman Kaya

Neanderthal DNA We Carry May Weaken Defense Against Some DNA Viruses

Bronze Age Brain Surgery

Inside the Lost Capital of the Hittites

Lost Maya City of Sac Balam Found?

5,000-Year-Old Ancient Settlement Found in Georgia

One panel, hundreds of decisions

Did Roman Emperor Carus Really Die From a Lightning Strike?

How Humans Made Their Beds 200,000 Years Ago

Massive Water Reservoirs Discovered at Egypt’s Medieval Red Sea Port of Aydhab

More Than 2,000-Year-Old Greek Theater Mask Discovered in a Croatian Cave

Rare Jesus Fresco Found in Türkiye May Rewrite Early Christian Art History

Ancient Chinese Brewing Recipe Revealed by Sealed Bronze Bottle Found in Qin Tomb

2,300-Year-Old Cemetery Found in Vasto

Ancient Tools Reveal Early Anesthesia Evidence

Possible 100,000-Year-Old Cremation Evidence Found in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift

Neanderthals May Have Treated Tooth Decay 60,000 Years Ago

Monumental Tomb Unearthed in Olympos

115,000-Year-Old Shellfish Clues Rewrite Neanderthal Life

Bronze Age Standing Stone With Possible Human Face Found on Alderney

Worship of Baal and the Children Given Over

The Lost Empire That Never Was: Debunking Tartaria

A 6,000-Year-Old Mega-Building in Romania Is Reopening the Debate on Europe’s First Complex Societies

Classified Dirt: The Archaeological Anomaly the State Tried to Erase

The Emerald Tablet and the Myth of Lost Ancient Wisdom