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CALGARY, CANADA—According to a Phys.org report, coca leaves have been found in the fur of […] The post Coca Leaves Found in Llama Wool at Peru’s Tambo Viejo appeared first on Archaeology Magazine .…

HESSE, GERMANY—Live Science reports that a temple dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war, […] The post Roman Settlement Found Near Ancient Fort in Germany appeared first on Archaeology Magazine .…

LAWRENCE, KANSAS—Bethany Potter of the University of Kansas and her colleagues reviewed migration models for […] The post When Did People Arrive in the Americas? appeared first on Archaeology Magazine…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For hundreds of years, Romans used amulets to protect themselves and their environment. According to PhD candidate Patricia Kret, this practice carried on even after Ch…

Love, War, and Diplomacy The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed By Eric H. Cline (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, […] The post Love, War, and Diplomacy and the Br…

The Book of Esther Word for Word Bible Comic series (Bristol, United Kingdom: Word for Word Bible Comics, 2024), i–ix + 84 pp. Acts of […] The post The Bible in Living Color appeared first on Biblical…

Early Career Scholars Fall Brown Bag: Beyond the Tenure Track Panel Discussion: Beyond the Tenure Track Join ASOR’s Early Career Scholars on October 16, 2026 at 12:00pm ET via Zoom for […] The post EC…

HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE—A complete Roman pottery workshop laid out on a grid has been discovered in […] The post Large-Scale Pottery Workshop Uncovered in France appeared first on Archaeology Magazine…

ABYDOS, EGYPT—In the 4th Dynasty (ca. 2575–2465 b.c. ) of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, pharaohs were building […] The post Did Egypt’s First Pharaohs Demand Human Sacrifice? appeared first on Archaeology Maga…

ROME, ITALY—Rare evidence of medieval Rome’s thriving community of Anglo-Saxons has been found close to […] The post Anglo-Saxon Community in Rome Revealed appeared first on Archaeology Magazine .…

With the support of the Anna C. & Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship, Nicole Constantine spent three weeks in Greece conducting museum research for her dissertation on the daily lives of […] The post Sailin…

Sandwiched between the genealogies of Adam’s descendants and the tale of Noah’s flood are a few enigmatic verses that leave many of us scratching our […] The post The Nephilim and the Sons of God appe…

In the Bible, a shade of blue called tekhelet was God’s chosen color for the ancient Israelites. Tekhelet drapes adorned Solomon’s Temple, and tekhelet robes were worn by Israel’s high priests. What w…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For several years, archaeologists have explored underwater sites in Lake Arendsee in the Altmark region of northern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. They have found Neolithic fi…

A volute-krater attributed to the Syriskos painter by J.R. Guy (see BAPD 44988) is said by Michael Padgett to have been found with a psykter-column-krater attributed to the Troilos painter recently re…

HALDEN, NORWAY—Science in Norway reports that a rescue excavation on southeastern Norway’s Svinesund Plateau, which […] The post 4,000-Year-Old Gallery Grave Excavated in Norway appeared first on Arch…

PUNÍN, ECUADOR—Live Science reports that the face of a man who lived in Ecuador's Andes […] The post Face of Ancient Andean Man Reconstructed appeared first on Archaeology Magazine .…

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY—According to the Greek Reporter, a lead figurine depicting Venus Pudica has been unearthed […] The post Lead Venus Figurine Unearthed in Hungary appeared first on Archaeology Magazin…

News from ASOR’s President and Looking for Your Input October 5, 2026 Dear All, As our profession grows and changes, one of my highest priorities as ASOR president is to […] The post News from ASOR’s …

When people today say, “God sees me,” they are often communicating their sense that God knows what they are going through, e.g., they do not […] The post The Face of God appeared first on Biblical Arc…

The metal detector chirped as archaeological volunteer Edie Lipsman passed it by a large stone. Although no one knew in that moment what Lipsman had […] The post Golden Treasure Trove Discovered at Hi…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A community-led archaeological project has uncovered the remains of an early medieval monastery in Argyll, western Scotland. Researchers have identified the site as t…

In 2025, Ella Egberts received an ASOR Mesopotamian Fellowship to continue archaeological research in the Iraqi Western Desert. During the field season, Ella and her team identified eight new Paleolit…

Who are the Nephilim? From where do the “heroes of old, the men of renown” come? The post Who Are the Nephilim? appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society .…

Just outside Zion Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City sits a small building considered by many Christians to be the location of Jesus’s Last Supper, and […] The post The Hidden History of Jerusalem’s Upper R…

Dear Friends, Earlier this week I startled awake at 2:30 a.m., with my mind racing about the concept of cause-and-effect. The physics. The metaphysics. The theology, ontology, and philosophy of it. I …

SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the State Office for Heritage Management and A RCHAEOLOGY […] The post Mesolithic Lumber Recovered in Germany’s Lake Arendsee appeared first…

Archaeological work at the site of Al-Ma’mala in Al-Aqiq Governorate, Al-Baha (Saudi Arabia) is beginning to reveal a substantial early Islamic settlement associated with mining, […] The post Mining a…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Historians have long used remains, burial practices, and other archaeological evidence to define the boundaries of ancient populations. But new discoveries can often …

Although jails of various sorts would have been as normal in the Roman Empire as they are today, archaeologists have discovered fewer than you might […] The post Thrown in a Late Roman Jail appeared f…

Burpham’s Big Dig: a tale of two Sussex villages Encountering ordinary people in the Bayeux tapestry The Wemyss caves: 40 years of community, conservation, and discovery Defence to domesticity: explor…

A recent series of excavations across Burpham and Wepham in West Sussex has revealed new – and sometimes surprising – insights into their origins and evolution. James Sainsbury reports.…

Continuing last month’s exploration of high medieval monasticism, this month I will visit sites across the country, both well known and less well known, that reflect the profound impact the Church had…

This Bronze Age button comes from a hoard of three copper-alloy items that also included two axe heads. One of the axe heads was noticed by a farm worker in 2021, while…

Marking the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror, 2027 has been designated the Year of the Normans. Events to mark the millennium are planned all over Europe, with castles as a ma…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Has a previously unknown Roman town near St. Pantaleon-Erla in Lower Austria been discovered? Which Roman city could it be? Was it perhaps the settlement of Claudiviu…

There are lots of great ways to get involved with history and archaeology over the next few months, including exhibitions, lectures, and conferences exploring a wide range of subjects. If you would pr…

Defending the Demetae I enjoyed the fascinating feature on the wonderful Halberton Roman villa in CA 438. By a happy coincidence, the day before, I had visited Carmarthenshire Museum, which has recent…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Young adults, not families, drove migration in Bronze Age communities. Researchers analyzed skeletal samples from Greek archaeological sites to assess mobility during…

Helmet and two mitrai from Afrati, Crete Source: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Part of what Günter Kopcke called "freebooter's loot" from Afrati on Crete has been returned to Greece from New Yo…

The caves at East Wemyss are home to traces of human activity spanning prehistory to the present day, including important Pictish carvings. In recent decades some of these interactions have been destr…

New research into a man buried at St Peter’s in Barton-upon-Humber almost 1,000 years ago has shed new light on the complexity of society in Britain during the Norman Conquest. The unusual…

The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.…

The Bayeux Tapestry is perhaps the most recognisable piece of early medieval art – and, almost 1,000 years after the brutal events that it depicts, rather friendlier relations between England and Fran…

The Bayeux Tapestry has gone on display at the British Museum at last, despite the fears of some conservators that transporting it to London would cause irreparable damage. In the event, two threads w…

Fortified Temple and 13 Towers of the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex © 2023 by Corrispo, used under CC BY-SA Your experience matters! Join our letter writing campaign to save a place […] The po…

Looking for funding to support your archaeological research? These upcoming webinars offer opportunities to learn more about the funding landscape, explore AIA fellowship opportunities, and get practi…

The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund, which helps volunteer and community groups to date their finds, has opened applications for its 2026 funding cycle. Kimberley Teale discusses …

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists are investigating mysterious giant stone circles visible only from the air. This complex structure is located over 3,000 meters above sea level near the Ti…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A small 2,000-year-old artifact has proven more important than once thought. This decorated Iron Age terret, now on display in the European Prehistory Gallery at the As…

The Ness of Brodgar in Orkney is home to an unprecedented complex of 5,000-year-old buildings. Ongoing analysis is illuminating their form and function, as Carly Hilts reports.…

This unusual burial was recently found by archaeologists from Highland Archaeology Services, working in advance of the expansion of a quarry at Evelix, near Dornoch, in Sutherland. Before it was used …

This Stonehenge paperback will sell, probably deservedly, very well. Its text gives a suitable level of detail, while also reflecting current mainstream (and therefore English Heritage) views, and hen…

It is a much-cited refrain that the only way to understand Scottish hillforts properly will be to excavate them fully, reliant as we have been, for the most part, on very limited…

In this absorbing book, Nicholas Bateman draws together 70 poems spanning 35 centuries, all of which had become lost before being rediscovered by archaeologists or archivists. Ranging from epic texts …

This book brings together papers from MetalAges2024 – Chronological Methods and their Correlation in the Metal Ages, which was held in Florence in 2024, co-organised by the UISPP Scientific Commission…

This is the most recent addition to the Jersey Heritage Research Series (see CA 434 for a review of The Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in Jersey and CA 431 for The Neolithic…

In the world of fly fishing, trout dominate the headlines, but in the past grayling were considered to be the equal of trout for sporting appeal – hence Izaac Walton’s The Compleat…

Last month we shared images from Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, highlighting how recent drought conditions have revealed the outlines of long-buried archaeological remains. Features both familiar and n…

A second excavation season at Buckler’s Hard, a private ship- building hub on the River Beaulieu, 12 miles (20km) south of Southampton in the New Forest, has fully revealed the wooden slipway…

When we last reported from Arthur’s Stone in 2023 (CA 404), it was thought of as an isolated Neolithic monumental site overlooking the Golden Valley in Herefordshire. Now, the Universities of Manchest…

This season’s excavation at Huttons Ambo in North Yorkshire has uncovered new details about the small village’s medieval past, including potentially one of the most high-status buildings yet found on …

Restoration work at the Priory House in Dunstable – a Grade II-listed building that was originally part of the grounds of Dunstable Priory, founded by Henry I in 1132 – is carefully…

A once-thriving Bronze Age settlement has been revealed during excavations in Erksine, Renfrewshire. The discovery was made by a team from GUARD Archaeology, who excavated two large fields in Northbar…

The sheep-pox virus (SPPV; Capripoxvirus sheeppox) is in the same family as the variola virus, which causes smallpox in humans. It is a highly contagious disease among sheep, causing the animal to…

Community-created field systems in Colombia? In the wetlands of La Mojana in northern Colombia is a vast (more than 500,000ha or 1,900 square miles) field system of canals and ridges, used to…

Sculpting southern Scotland A new project, coordinated by Dr Christina Cowart-Smith and funded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, is set to start this autumn with the aim of documenting around…

Happy Friday, Everyone! First up, Department of Corrections: Last edition, my headline on warning signs outside the Smithsonian contained a simple but egregious typo: I intended $84K, as quoted from t…

AIA offers a range of funding opportunities to support archaeological research, fieldwork, study, and publication. Details on the fellowships/grants, eligibility requirements, and information on how t…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old Highlands story of forbidden love, war, and a legendary curse is now being investigated as a true-crime case. Forensic experts hope to uncover the real …

Embroidering the Past: the Bayeux tapestry Castles in the cliffs: archaeology and myth in the Pyrenees The frontier in Raetia: heritage on the edge of the Roman world Becoming America: how science sha…

As the Bayeux Tapestry goes on show at the British Museum, Matthew Symonds explores some of the enigmatic messages encoded in its exquisite needlework.…

As summer comes to an end, it is the perfect time to reflect on your heritage-filled travels, archaeological projects, and visits to historical sites around the world. Dig out your best photos…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About a hundred years ago, archaeologists unearthing pottery sherds in Tampa Bay found something unexpected. Some of the fragments they recovered had designs nearly ide…

From serving as the edge of an empire to falling within no fewer than three modern World Heritage Sites, Raetia's Roman frontier has long been a place of consequence. David J Breeze introduces the anc…

Across 8 Greek island, location of the Loizos Cave archaeological site (6)9 ___ limestone, sedimentary rock made of small grains of calcium carbonate (7)10 Kathleen ___, British archaeologist, author …

In the 12th century, the counts of Foix began creating a unique network of fortifications using caves and other natural features in their part of the Pyrenees. Colin Duncan Taylor explores their origi…

Last year, in Vienna, we visited the salt mines at Hallstatt and the site beside the Danube where the Venus of Willendorf was discovered.…

When news about Tenochtitlan (nowadays Mexico City), the capital of the Aztec Empire, started to reach Europe around the time of the conquest by the Spanish Conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés, the cit…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hidalgo, Mexico, is home to numerous ancient cave paintings and rock art. Located in the pre-Hispanic region of Mesoamerica, the area has seen migrations of various ind…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Around 1 in 10 people worldwide chew betel nuts. However, the earliest beginnings of this widespread drug-use habit are unknown. Colored areca nuts [Areca catechu] in…

What role did science play in the emergence of the United States of America? Matthew Symonds spoke to Elissavet Ntoulia about scientific knowledge and its practical applications as a nation was born.…

I first came to the Umbrian hilltop village of Giove half a lifetime ago. I was seeking sanctuary in the real Italy as I navigated potential closure of the British School at Rome (where…

Bronze Age sailors, metal prospectors, and traders regularly travelled between northern and southern Europe – a distance of more than 2,000 miles – according to new research looking at similarities in…

An assemblage of objects discovered at Peñico on the north-central coast of Peru, dating to 3,800 years ago, provides new evidence for the continuity of the Caral culture. Caral is considered the…

Archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities have uncovered the remains of a residential city dating to the 4th and 5th centuries AD at the Ain Al-Sabil archaeological site in the Dakhla…

The wetlands of La Mojana in northern Colombia are home to an ancient raised field system made up of canals and ridges (camellones) covering a vast area of c.500,000ha. Often called the…

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of Dublin’s previously “lost” medieval castles has been identified within University College Dublin’s Roebuck Castle. New research reveals that substantial remains …

An ancient votive well has been discovered at the Etruscan city of Kainua in northern Italy. Kainua, located on the outskirts of modern-day Bologna, was founded in the late 6th century BC.…

Two remarkably detailed bird figurines have been discovered at Hohle Fels cave in south-western Germany. The cave, which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ‘Caves and Ice Age Art in…

Beneath Grønhaug In 1902, investigations of the Grønhaug burial mound on Karmøy, western Norway, revealed the poorly preserved remains of a Viking Age ship dating to the mid-9th century. Now archaeolo…

Janice Kinory looks back on the curious case of the clay tablets from Glozel.…

Examination of surgical tools from a Ming Dynasty tomb reveals evidence of early anaesthetic use in 14th-century China.…

Good afternoon, Friends, Today we are so pleased to share the new, next season of Archaeology Café, which is running just shy of two decades long! Thank you to the leadership who trusted this crazy ga…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While working with old manuscripts in Utrecht University's Special Collections, Dr Mark de Kreij, an assistant professor of Ancient Greek and Papyrology at the Univer…

Congratulations to the Worcester Society for winning the 2027 Golden Trowel Award! Between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026, the Worcester Society achieved a growth of 36%. The Worcester […] The post 20…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers recreated a damaged ancient scroll to test a new method for examining historical texts. A model carbonized papyrus scroll opens a novel path to identifyin…

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of the most complete diplodocid skeletons ever discovered in Europe is reported by paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinó…

Although Classical Greek religious traditions were well established in Cyprus, Greek-style temples appear to have been relatively rare. Newly documented and analyzed architectural fragments from the L…

Italian Terra Sigillata (ITS) was one of the most widely traded fine wares in the Roman world, seeing distribution across the Mediterranean and beyond. Northern Italian Terra Sigillata (NITS) has rare…

This study aims to identify imperial portraits through contextual and iconographic markers rather than from physiognomy and hairstyle. Modern scholarship categorizes portraits into types based on faci…

The second-century CE relief tondi now on the fourth-century CE Arch of Constantine are anomalous both in subject matter and in format. Among these eight reliefs, the scenes of the lion hunt and of th…

This article presents the results of six years of archaeological excavations at Castellaraccio di Monteverdi, a minor fortified settlement in the middle valley of the Ombrone River in southern Tuscany…

New discoveries from Mycenaean Pylos in southwest Greece were the focus of an exhibition inaugurated in early 2025 at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Kalamata). This exhibition traveled to the …

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John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration (Sept 14, 2026)—What ever happened to patriotism? You know, the pride and sense of belonging borne of collective sacrifice and accomplishmen…

The post Intent on the Paleolithic: Papers in Honour of Prof. Dr. Wil Roebroeks appeared first on American Journal of Archaeology .…

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New fellowships will provide extended research travel support for graduate students and emerging scholars. AUBURNDALE, MA — The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is pleased to announce a $500,…

Hi all, A short edition today, because we just came to you on Monday, and I’m trying to get back to a regular Thursday or Friday posting. Thanks for your patience as we spin all the plates! Our longti…

Dear Friends, On Friday, August 28, the Center for Western Priorities (CWP) hosted a live recording event (listen at that link) here in Tucson for The Landscape Podcast, which presents news, interview…

The AIA joined a national coalition of more than 700 organizations representing 7 million Americans to call on Congress to reject efforts to weaken or dismantle Section 106, a set […] The post AIA Joi…

Banner image © Jonathan T. Bailey Press release posted by Conservation Lands Foundation Filing seeks to return the landmark monument case to the active docket and challenge President Trump’s July 13, …

The #DigThis Photo Challenge put participants’ creativity and photography skills to the test! From June 1 through August 31, archaeology enthusiasts captured images inspired by a variety of fun photo …

Reinstatement of award follows court ruling that termination was unlawful Tucson, Ariz. (August 31, 2026)—Archaeology Southwest is gratified to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities …

Hi Everyone, A brief but urgent edition today. I apologize for the length of the two calls-to-action at the top. I included enough information to convey the seriousness and hopefully prompt you to fol…

It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of former AIA President Dr. James R. Wiseman. A Renaissance scholar whose interests spanned archaeological science, remote […] The post In…

The following is a summary of public archaeology resources compiled by 2026 SHA PEIC members.…

Since its inception, Section 106 has given state and local governments, Tribal Nations, and the public a voice in protecting historic and cultural sites affected by federal projects. The proposed […] …

Source: MMA A psykter column-krater attributed to the Troilos painter was deaccessioned by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in June 2026 (1986.11.12; BAPD 15922). The history of the piece was rec…

Cup attributed to near Psiax. Source: MMA. In February 2026 two fragmentary Attic cups that had been given to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art by Dietrich von Bothmer were deaccessioned pending t…

Source: MMA The Manhattan DA has announced that 45 objects derived from New York's Metropolitan Museum have been returned to Italy. They include a marble fishplate and two marble dishes said to have b…