4,200-Year-Old Ceramic Storm Drains in Ancient Chinese Town Are the Oldest of Their Kind
Story at a glance… The world’s oldest ceramic drain pipe system has been identified and described in China. The…
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Story at a glance… The world’s oldest ceramic drain pipe system has been identified and described in China. The…
Story at a glance… An incredible stone tomb has been found at a famous Neolithic site in Spain. A…
When news broke in 2018 that another Viking-Age ship burial had been found on the shores of the Oslo…
Workers building a new highway in Romania were forced to call archaeologists when it became clear they were digging…
PICTURED: An aerial view of Kemune Palace from the west, near the Tigris River in Iraq. PC: Universities of…
PICTURED: A 3D image of the LIDAR survey showing conclusively that an urban-agrarian culture in the southern Amazon was…
PICTURED: Pottery figurines lie on the floor of the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.…
PICTURED: A woman harvests millet in a field in Zaozhuang city, East China’s Shandong province, on Sept 7, 2016.…
PICTURED: The Norfolk Hoard, one of the most important ever found. PC: British Museum. Released. A hoard of 131…
PICTURED: The reconstructed archaeological site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, also known by the mythical name of “Vinland,” home…
PICTURED: The Moai heads of Rapa Nui, or Easter island. CC 4.0. Story at a glance… A new genetic…
PICTURED: The walls of the lost city of Aten. Photo credit: Zahi Hawass. Released via Facebook. It’s the stuff…
PICTURED: The burrow where the artifacts were discovered. Photo credit: Skokholm Blog. Released. Alone on the windswept island Skokholm,…
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
Questions have always circled around Stonehenge, and now a breakthrough hypothesis suggests that the world’s most famous Neolithic monument…