Archaeology Insight Digest

Linear A likely traces back to Egyptian hieroglyphics indirectly: strong Minoan-Egyptian ties around 2000 BC inspired Cretan hieroglyphics, which...

Child burials in Moche society followed strict orientation rules, with this 1,500-year-old 18-month-old at Huacas de Moche buried head south in a...

Chogha Zanbil's ziggurat remains the best-preserved example outside Mesopotamia, rising from sun-baked bricks in Iran's Khuzestan.

• Built around 1250...

Dental calculus proteomics uncovered surprising individual diets among eight commoners, directly challenging assumptions of limited food access in...

Photographer Stella Nastou frames Ancient Messene's marble ruins, wild vegetation and open horizons to evoke more than 2,000 years of layered history...

A crowdfunded excavation is resuming at the first confirmed Roman villa in North Wales, aiming to map its layout and reveal how its wealthy residents...

Three insights from analysis of 243 ogame vessels:

• Multifunctional vessels: Large stoneware served for storing water, soy sauce, fertiliser, human...

• Satellite radar and sediment cores mapped a 64 km extinct Nile branch, clarifying why 31 pyramids cluster along its former banks.
• Muon...

Ancient rock art murals in west Texas, some 4,000 years old and older than the pyramids, face destruction from proposed border wall construction...

Isotope analysis of 17 Herculaneum remains reveals distinct diets just before Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

• Men ate 50% more seafood and more cereals,...

Ground-penetrating radar detects underground anomalies to pinpoint locations suspected of containing remains, demonstrating a non-invasive survey method for archaeological exploration.

Ongoing work with ancient writing spans multiple fronts, from stubborn undeciphered scripts to hands-on conservation and fresh finds.

• Undeciphered...

Three recent finds trace how trade turned objects into carriers of identity and innovation across vast distances.

• 3,200-year-old Qurayyah Painted...

When real examples number under 100, traditional image augmentation fails and deep learning stays out of reach for many archaeological tasks.

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Kiln debris outside Vulci served as the key proxy for local clay sources, bypassing inaccessible natural deposits due to thick vegetation.

• ICP-MS...

A Dutch Leiden University mission has uncovered a previously unrecorded New Kingdom tomb at Jabanat el-Qurna in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna necropolis,...

Mehmet Erdek began wielding his pickaxe at Hattusa in 1975 at age 15 and has since contributed to uncovering Hittite seals, tablets, and structures...

A rare intact clay tablet covered in geometric symbols was unearthed at the Lucone di Polpenazze site on Lake Garda, northern Italy.

This find...

Did Christians and Muslims coexist peacefully or convert after conflict in 14th-century Central Asia?

• Ilibalyk excavations uncovered 140+ Christian...

Why did Paleolithic toolmakers leave nearly 40,000 flint artifacts but zero organic remains at Inkaya Cave?

• The site served as a workshop for...