Archaeology & Discoveries
Neanderthals Made Wooden Spears, Containers and a Possible Club 60,000 Years Ago
Neanderthals are often remembered for their stone tools, but a remarkable collection of ancient wooden remains from Spain is revealing another side of their technology. Tens of thousands of years ago, these…
Possible Stone Age Boat Anchor Discovered Underwater Off Norway
A Stone Age anchor in Norway may offer a rare clue to how people traveled by water thousands of years ago. Archaeologists recovered a heavy, grooved stone from the seabed near a…
Stone Tools Found Underwater Reveal Australia’s Lost Landscape
Stone tools found during underwater archaeology in Australia are revealing how Aboriginal communities used a landscape that now lies beneath the sea. Off the coast of Western Australia, archaeologists and Indigenous Rangers…
Bir El-Shaghala Pyramid Tomb: Roman-Era Burial Holds a Greek Elegy
Near Mut, the capital of Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, archaeologists have uncovered a Roman-era tomb that mixes pharaonic religion with Greek poetry. The Bir El-Shaghala pyramid tomb, announced in September 2026 by Egypt’s…
Vulci Tomb of the Stone Chamber: Monumental Etruscan Tomb Survives Looters
In the Polledrara necropolis of ancient Vulci, north of Rome, archaeologists have opened a monumental Etruscan tomb that repeated 20th-century looting failed to empty. The Vulci Tomb of the Stone Chamber—in Italian,…
Qinngua Norse Church Greenland: East-Facing Grave Confirms Medieval Site
An east-oriented skeleton uncovered during summer fieldwork has confirmed what surveyors long suspected: a medieval church and churchyard at Qinngua Norse church Greenland, near Narsarsuaq in the south of the island. Announced…