Women played a crucial role in all aspects of the development and endurance of the state, including some who ruled the ...

The stone, known also as a massebah, was discovered during excavations of the First Temple era site, inside a large residence named by archaeologists as "Building 101," or the Governor's Residency. In ...

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For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of ...

Archaeology undergraduates from the University of Cambridge were on a training dig when they discovered a group burial just three miles outside of town. Dated to the ninth century C.E., a time when ...

Danie van der LithA RESEARCH project led by a Sol Plaatje University (SPU) honours student is helping to uncover new archaeological evidence from one of South Africa's lesser-studied concentration ...

Right-wing extremists have spent decades perfecting the use of archaeology to promote their messianic ideology and sabotage diplomatic efforts.

Archaeologists recently found a rare textile at Colonial Michilimackinac, using metal threads that helped preserve fibers for ...