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More than 4,000 years after two members of an elite Egyptian family were commemorated at Saqqara, their tomb has returned to the archaeological spotlight with an extraordinary amount of its decoration still visible. A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has excavated and…
Originally, the dome mosaics included about a million tesserae. Although many of these have fallen away, the basic iconographic scheme can still be glimpsed. The mosaics were organized into three concentric registers. The lowest of these, which is also the…
The structural core of the settlement sits along the western side of the central summit, where excavators uncovered evidence of elite domestic comfort that survived well into the Merovingian era. Among the most technically revealing finds are the elements of…
Desirable greenery. Sweet chirping of birds. Cool breeze. Sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees. And a two-story temple standing peacefully in the middle of the forest. But there is no pinnacle on the roof of the temple. After traveling…
The day of days, the most wonderful that I have ever lived through, and certainly one whose like I can never hope to see again. Despite Carter’s initial awe upon peering into the warm, gas-filled antechamber, the physical preservation challenges…
Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of a 20ft-wide marble monument built around a burial chamber Christians believe once contained Jesus Christ's body. The tomb lies within a shrine at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and has been…
A new archaeological software tool named after the ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes (Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης) could help researchers date artifacts by combining historical evidence with statistical analysis. The program estimates when ancient objects were made, used, and buried, offering a more…
Archaeological discoveries have raised questions about whether Mount Vesuvius erupted in the summer or autumn of A.D. 79. 'The Eruption of Vesuvius,' painting by Pierre-Jacques Volaire. Despite the wealth of archaeological evidence unearthed from the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, one fundamental…
‘Tis the season for all things spooky. It’s easy to spot the decorated lawns and aisles of candy on store shelves. But hidden away most of the year in a storage room at Mississippi’s Old Capitol Museum in Jackson is…
Наша Ніва Archaeologists Discover Previously Unknown 17th-Century Chapel-Crypt Near Talachyn In the Talachyn district, archaeologists have discovered a 17th-century chapel-crypt, about which there is no information in any known historical document, reports BelTA. The length of the structure reaches 10 meters,…