Archaeology News

Apr 8, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a huge wine press and a ceramic model of a church dating back to the early-Byzantine period (5th – 6th centuries CE). Ceramic model of a church unearthed near Ashkelon, Israel (Clara Amit / Israel Antiquities Authority) “The wine press, which exceeds 100 m2 in area, consists of three components: a large treading floor paved with ceramic tiles was discovered in the center...

Mar 14, 2013 by Sci-News.com

An expedition of archaeologists has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the island of Manda, off the northern coast of Kenya. Chinese coin found on...

Feb 27, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research by an international team of archaeologists provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on...

Feb 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has found remains of an industrial installation dating back to the Byzantine period (600...

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Strontium isotope data from the Danube Gorges in the north-central Balkan show Europe’s first farmers were immigrants. “One of the big questions...

Feb 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Richard III Society have unveiled the world’s only facial reconstruction of the human remains found at the Greyfriars in Leicester,...

Feb 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research led by Spanish scientists casts doubt on the widely accepted theory that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia, Spain, at the...

Jan 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Barry Molloy, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom, has discovered that the Minoan civilization had strong martial traditions,...

Jan 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of British and Greek archaeologists has unearthed over 300 clay figurines at the Neolithic archaeological site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece. Clay...