Author: AllThatHistory
Carmei Gat Mikveh Lifted Intact by IAA at Kiryat Gat
The Israel Antiquities Authority has lifted a roughly 2,000-year-old Second Temple–period Carmei Gat mikveh—about 25 tons and roughly 4 m wide—intact from the Carmei Gat neighborhood of Kiryat Gat, southern Israel. Excavation…
Rare Salona Face-Down Burial Packed with Glass and Gems
A rare Salona face-down burial—Grave 162 at Hortus Metrodori in the western necropolis of ancient Salona near Solin, Croatia—has drawn fresh attention after the site’s fifth excavation season. The individual was laid…
Oued Beht Defensive Ditch Rewrites Morocco’s Bronze Age Map
Newly published fieldwork at Oued Beht in Khémisset Province, northwestern Morocco, has dated a multiphase Oued Beht defensive ditch, earthen embankment, and stone wall along the ridge tip long known as Wall…
Liman Tepe Drainage System: 5,000-Year-Old Stone Channels in Urla
Archaeologists working at Liman Tepe in Urla, on İzmir’s Aegean coast, have uncovered stone channels between terraces at different elevations—an approximately 5,000-year-old drainage system that excavation director Prof. Vasıf Şahoğlu of Ankara…
3,600-Year-Old Elite Warrior Burial Unearthed at Keshikchidagh, Azerbaijan
A rare diorite mace head has emerged from a stone-covered kurgan in western Azerbaijan, pointing to a Middle Bronze Age burial dated to about 3,600 years ago. The find comes from Kurgan…
Chan Chan’s Intact Chimú Funerary Platform Holds 38 Elite Burials
At Chan Chan—the vast adobe capital of the Chimú on Peru’s northern coast—archaeologists have opened a funerary platform that stayed largely sealed for about six centuries. Inside the Utzh An walled complex…