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10,500-Year-Old Wooden Remains Found 20 Meters Beneath a German Lake
Deep beneath a lake in northern Germany, archaeologists have found remarkably preserved wooden remains dating back some 10,500 years. The discovery could provide rare evidence of how Mesolithic hunter-gatherers built and organized the places where they lived. The wooden remains were discovered in Lake Arendsee…
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A Christian Church Was Built Around a Mysterious Life-Size Figure in Ancient Sudan
On a granite hill overlooking the Nile’s Third Cataract in northern Sudan, archaeologists are reconstructing the history of a remarkable site. At its center stands the ruin of a seventh-century Christian church built around a much older, life-size human figure carved into the rock. The…
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13,000-Year-Old Spear Points Reveal How Ice Age Hunters Learned an Unfamiliar Land
At the end of the last Ice Age, people moving through the Tennessee River Valley faced a challenge that went far beyond finding food. They also had to learn an unfamiliar landscape — where rivers led, where animals moved and where the stone needed to…
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Perfectly Preserved Bronze Age Sword Found Beneath an Italian Lake
A perfectly preserved Late Bronze Age sword has been discovered beneath the waters of Lake Mezzano in central Italy, adding a striking new find to one of the region’s most important submerged prehistoric settlements. The weapon was recovered from the lake’s southern shore near Valentano,…
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Giant Stone Spheres Hidden in a Bosnian Forest Defy an Easy Explanation
Deep in the forests around Zavidovići in Bosnia and Herzegovina, enormous stone spheres emerge from stream beds, slopes and layers of earth. Some are almost perfectly rounded, giving them an appearance that can seem more engineered than geological. Around 60 stone spheres have been recorded…
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A 2,100-Year-Old Adrasan Shipwreck Still Holds an Ancient Delivery That Never Arrived
Somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean around 2,100 years ago, merchants loaded thousands of newly made plates, bowls and serving dishes onto a ship and prepared them for a journey that would never reach its destination. The vessel sank off what is now Adrasan, on Türkiye’s…
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A 6,500-Year-Old Fire May Have Preserved Clues to Europe’s Earliest Beer
A fire that destroyed a prehistoric house in Bulgaria around 6,500 years ago may have preserved evidence of one of Europe’s earliest beer-making traditions. Archaeologists working at Provadia-Solnitsata found charred emmer wheat inside a Late Chalcolithic building dating to around 4500 BC. What made the…
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A Huge New Rock Art Panel Emerges at Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site
A survey of the Tanum rock carvings at Trättelanda has revealed 16 previously undocumented carved rock surfaces. The largest contains ships and human figures across an area whose boundaries researchers have yet to establish. Researchers surveying the southern edge of Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site…
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Ancient Grave in Kazakhstan Reveals a Woman With a Mysterious Skull Injury
A woman was buried beside a man and two children in southern Kazakhstan. An injury near her temple has left archaeologists with a question the grave cannot yet answer: was she wounded in a fight, or killed during a burial ceremony? The remains came from…