3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization Archaeologists excavating on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast have unearthed the oldest pottery ever found in Australia. The find is highly significant because it challenges the idea that Aboriginal Australian…
5,000-year-old mother goddess found in İzmir’s most ancient settlement A Mother Goddess statuette, determined to be 5 thousand years old, was found during the excavations carried out in the Yeşilova Mound (Yeşilova Höyük) in the Bornova district, which contains the ruins of…
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Step Pyramid Dedicated to Horse Cult in Kazakhstan Alarge Bronze Age pyramid has been discovered in Kazakhstan, the country’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education reports. The structure—which dates back to the 2nd millennium BC—is unlike anything that…
4,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-like Sanctuary Unearthed in the Netherlands Dutch archaeologists have unearthed an approximately 4,000-year-old religious site – nicknamed the “Stonehenge of the Netherlands” – that includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. The mound, which contained the remains…
Ancient Quartz Tools Unearthed in Canada Archeologists have uncovered a cache of artifacts near Ottawa that could shed new light on trade and communication networks between Indigenous communities thousands of years ago. The discovery last month in Lac Philippe, Que.,…
Buddha Statue Found In Egypt Points To Trade Ties With Ancient India An ancient statue of Buddha has been discovered in the seaport of Berenice in Egypt, shedding further light on the trade links between India and Egypt during the period…
New DNA study reveals African and Asian ancestry on the Swahili Coast People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ – the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa – have African and Asian ancestry according to new research on ancient DNA. Archaeologists…