33 stories tagged archaeology, newest first.
44 points by teleforce | 5 comments
Guardian article on University of Sheffield researchers replicating the dichroic colour-changing glass of the 1,600-year-old Roman Lycurgus Cup.
57 points by laybak | 1 comments
Getty Museum article by conservator Susanne Gänsicke on conserving and reassembling a 5th–6th century clay Buddha head excavated at Merv, Turkmenistan.
100 points by janandonly | 44 comments
Archaeology News article reporting the discovery of a large Iron Age salt-mining chamber complex, at least 300 meters long, beneath Hallstatt, Austria.
75 points by XzetaU8 | 36 comments
Open-access Antiquity research article using tooth-enamel lead levels from cemeteries to date and examine the social dynamics of Peak District lead production, AD 600–1500.
24 points by pseudolus | 5 comments
Science news feature by Lizzie Wade on how new radiocarbon dates show the Inca Empire lasted longer than thought and faced more resistance.
125 points by samizdis | 128 comments
Phys.org news article on research showing rabbits were a royal luxury in medieval England until the Black Death; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
9 points by dcminter | 0 comments
Vesuvius Challenge Substack post announcing the award of a $50,000 First Letters Prize for reading text in Herculaneum scroll PHerc 343.
136 points by mikk14 | 30 comments
Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.
5 points by fittingopposite | 0 comments
A 2017 blog post on the bawdy and humorous graffiti found on the walls of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum.
370 points by benbreen | 88 comments
The History Blog post about the discovery of a Hittite royal archive in Turkey; the capture shows only a security check page.
55 points by optimalsolver | 79 comments
Phys.org news article on ancient DNA research suggesting Scandinavia's first Neolithic farmers violently replaced the existing hunter-gatherer population.
4 points by darkwater | 0 comments
Blog post explaining why Etruscan remains poorly understood despite being pronounceable, since most of the ~13,000 surviving inscriptions are funerary.
139 points by Hooke | 55 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.
3 points by measurablefunc | 2 comments
A Works in Progress essay examining the causes of the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mediterranean civilizations.
377 points by AnodicElegy | 259 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter feature by Patrick Fitzsimmons arguing that drought, famine and invaders cannot explain why Bronze Age empires never recovered.
85 points by gmays | 10 comments
Live Science news article on archaeologists finding a fragment of the world's oldest known peace treaty, from around 1269 B.C., at the Hittite capital Hattusha in Turkey.
154 points by yusufaytas | 43 comments
Archaeology News article reporting the first two intact burials found at Göbeklitepe in Turkey and what they suggest about the site's scattered human bones.
365 points by gumby | 62 comments
Article on how NASA's decorrelation stretch color-enhancement technique, developed for planetary imagery, is used to reveal faded ancient rock art.
1608 points by verditelabs | 353 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement page reporting that an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll has been virtually unrolled and read for the first time.
480 points by bookofjoe | 249 comments
News article reporting that 430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 in Greece's Megalopolis Basin are the oldest known.
576 points by bensouthwood | 274 comments
A Works in Progress essay arguing that modern reconstructions of painted classical statues misrepresent how the ancient originals were actually colored.
394 points by fatihpense | 165 comments
TRT Haber Turkish-language photo gallery reporting the discovery of a 12,000-year-old standing stone with a human face at Karahan Tepe.
318 points by simonpure | 77 comments
An illustrated web portrait of Tenochtitlan featuring Thomas Kole's 3D reconstruction of the Aztec capital, available in English, Spanish and Nahuatl.
327 points by Someone | 240 comments
Johns Hopkins Hub article on clay cylinders found at an ancient Syrian site bearing what may be the oldest known alphabetic writing.
421 points by lukehollis | 81 comments
Interactive guided virtual tour of 3D-scanned excavation tunnels inside Temple 26 and other Maya temples at Copán Ruinas, Honduras.
353 points by dzdt | 130 comments
A post on the Tlacuilolli blog about Mesoamerican writing describing newly discovered Aztec codices from San Andrés Tetepilco.
1287 points by amrrs | 200 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement of its 2023 Grand Prize winners, who made the first Herculaneum scroll readable; the 2000-year-old text discusses music, food, and pleasure.
816 points by GuardianCaveman | 90 comments
A trilingual interactive site by artist Thomas Kole presenting a 3D digital reconstruction of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.
389 points by Brajeshwar | 215 comments
Smithsonian Magazine news article on research finding seaweed and aquatic plant biomarkers in ancient European dental plaque, showing millennia of seaweed eating.
1095 points by razin | 204 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement that a 21-year-old computer science student discovered the first word read inside an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
727 points by samaysharma | 199 comments
Article reporting that a Babylonian clay tablet shows knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem roughly 1,000 years before Pythagoras.
327 points by khole | 196 comments
Arkeonews article on new finds at Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, including a roughly 12,000-year-old human statue with a realistic facial expression.
336 points by janpot | 164 comments
News article reporting that archaeologists in Germany found an exceptionally well-preserved 3,000-year-old sword.