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In Latvia, the country’s first underwater dig found a fishing spear possibly up to 11,000 years old Researchers in Latvia have carried out what the Latvian Academy of Culture calls the country's first underwater archaeological excavation, and it turned up more than they expected....

In Türkiye, a dog’s paw prints survive on a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age mudbrick from a burned house Four thousand years ago, a dog walked across a freshly shaped block of wet clay in western Anatolia....

Fu Hao, China’s Warrior Queen, Was Buried With a Huge Bronze Axe Fu Hao, a Shang dynasty consort and military commander, lay in an intact tomb at Yinxu with a reported 9 kilogram axe, about 130 weapons and 16 sacrificed people....

Magnetic scan reveals a probable Roman roadside station buried near Mellaria, Spain A cart-mounted magnetic survey mapped a 48-meter buried building beside the Córdoba to Mérida road that may be a Roman mansio, an official stopover for travelers....

Roman Inscription Nearly 16 Feet Long Found in Spain May Date to Augustus A reused stone block at the Roman Baths of Fortuna in Murcia carries 9-inch letters from an inscription at least 4.8 meters long, possibly from the age of Augustus....

Roman house and possible temple found beneath the streets of Fréjus, France Municipal archaeologists in Fréjus have uncovered a Roman house and a monumental building that may be a temple, near the crossing of Forum Julii's two main streets....

Satellites Led Explorers to a Desert Ruin in Oman That May Be Ubar Space shuttle radar and satellite images guided expeditions to Shisr in Oman, a fortified oasis that may be the legendary lost city of Ubar, though the identification is still open....

A Stone With Two Different Carvings Turns Up at a Galician Hillfort Archaeologists at Castro do Pico da Bandeira in Galicia found a granite stone with a neat triskele on one face and a rougher petroglyph on the other, and its meaning remains open....

A 1,500-Year-Old Clay Shaman Figure With Red Paint Found Beside a Japanese Tomb Archaeologists in Gunma, Japan, found a 41-centimeter haniwa of a female shaman with traces of red pigment in the moat of a 49-meter burial mound....

A 2,900-Year-Old Clay Earring From Japan Has Spiral Details Only One Millimeter Thick Excavators at the Shinpukuji Shell Mound near Tokyo found an openwork Final Jomon clay earring, about eight centimeters across, with spirals, red pigment traces and parts roughly one millimeter thick....

A massive eruption buried parts of southern Japan in ash 7,300 years ago, and the sea may have saved survivors Radiocarbon dates suggest people fled or died in southern Kyushu after the Kikai eruption 7,300 years ago, while northern coastal communities kept growing and turned to the sea....

Archaeologists may have found a 5,000-year-old funeral hall beside China’s ‘royal tombs’ At Fanshan in Hangzhou, 120 post holes suggest a large oval building beside 5,000-year-old Liangzhu tombs, hinting at an early tomb system....

Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came from Scotland, not Wales Mineral grains in Stonehenge's six-tonne Altar Stone match rocks in northeast Scotland, at least 750 km away, which suggests a long sea journey about 5,000 years ago....

A 30,000-year-old woman’s DNA reveals east-west mixing in Ice Age Europe The oldest genome-wide data from southwestern Europe suggests Ice Age groups mixed across long distances about 32,000 years ago....

Astronomers found a real “Three-Body” star system 7,000 light-years away Chinese astronomers using the FAST telescope found a pulsar, a white dwarf and a Sun-like star bound together, only the second pulsar triple of its kind reported so far....

A 150-million-year-old bird with dinosaur teeth and a sickle claw is the earliest known bird to lose flight A crow-sized Jurassic bird from Fujian, China, had serrated teeth and a sickle-shaped claw, and its short limbs suggest it was the earliest known bird to lose flight....

A Greek temple in Albania had a roof of marble shipped from Paros Excavations at the Doric temple of Shtyllas near ancient Apollonia suggest its roof used marble tiles from Paros and tiles from Corinth, about 2,400 to 2,500 years ago....

A 2,700-year-old woman was buried in a house’s courtyard with a mysterious seal At Metsamor in Armenia, a woman buried tightly curled up in a courtyard 2,700 years ago had an Urartian-style seal and may have grown up elsewhere....

A cave of prehistoric bear bones found nearly 10,000 feet up Italy’s Dolomites is now locked behind a metal gate A mountain guide found a cave of prehistoric cave bear remains high in the Italian Dolomites, and South Tyrol has now sealed it with a metal grille and a monitoring system....

New mosaic floors found at central Turkey’s largest known mosaic building Excavations at Örenşehir in Kayseri province have revealed new Roman and Early Byzantine mosaic floors at what local officials call Central Anatolia's largest known mosaic structure....

In Spain, a Navarre cave yielded 46,000-year-old Neanderthal hand bones, a regional first Archaeologists digging in Abauntz Cave in northern Spain have recovered six bones from a Neanderthal who lived about 46,000 years ago....

In Morocco, scientists rebuilt a 315,000-year-old Homo sapiens face that looks surprisingly familiar A team of researchers has built a digital face for some of the oldest known Homo sapiens…...

Voynich manuscript may have been bound in the wrong order, new study suggests A 2026 study suggests the Voynich manuscript began as loose sheets read in sequence and was later bound out of order, which could help code-breakers if the idea holds up....

Copper from 435 miles away: how Shang China’s capital built one of East Asia’s earliest supply chains Chemical fingerprints in copper ore suggest Zhengzhou's bronze workshops around 1400 BC relied on mines in the Middle Yangtze Valley, about 700 km away....

Hellenistic mosaic floor found at Kültepe-Kaniş, a site famous for Assyrian merchant tablets Excavators at Kültepe-Kaniş near Kayseri found a Hellenistic building with a mosaic floor, the first of its kind there, showing the settlement stayed active long after its merchant era....

Police in Türkiye seize a marble head of Zeus, and its origin remains a mystery Anti-smuggling police in İzmir seized a marble head of Zeus believed to be about 2,000 years old and detained three suspects, but the sculpture's origin is unknown....

A rare Cybele relief turns up in one of Thrace’s last pagan temples Archaeologists at Balak Dere in Bulgaria found a marble relief of Cybele with three nymphs, a combination not seen before, in a temple that may have outlasted Rome's ban on pagan rites....

The mystery man in a Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey A Roman stone coffin found in 1820 held a much later skeleton, and archaeologist Warwick Rodwell thinks the man was likely Abbot Aelfwig, buried around 1020....

The elephant photo that won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 Federico Veronesi's black-and-white image of a desert elephant carrying a dead calf in Namibia won the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year grand title....

Drone lasers reveal hidden roads under the jungle near Machu Picchu A Polish-Peruvian team used drone-mounted LiDAR on Mount Yanantin and found more than 2.5 km of unknown pre-Columbian roads, with far more likely still hidden....

A 2,500-year-old barrier in Denmark may have been built to stop an army Museum Vest archaeologists found a line of postholes near Schæfergårde that may mark a 2,500-year-old barrier across an ancient road in western Jutland....

Shakespeare and Marlowe may have co-written Edward III, new study suggests Computer analysis of the anonymous 1596 play Edward III points to Shakespeare as the main author, with Christopher Marlowe writing nine sections around 1592....

Laser-scanning drones find three new Aboriginal rock art shelters in the Blue Mountains A Sydney team and Dharug custodians used LiDAR drones to confirm six known rock shelters and locate three new ones, each holding art or artefacts....

4,000-year-old tablets reveal a princess’s estate and a possible village of war captives Fifteen Ur III clay tablets in the Iraq Museum describe a princess's rural estate, a previously unattested canal and a village that may have housed prisoners of war....

Wyoteuthis linsterorum: the chunkiest squid relative from Jurassic Wyoming Two rare fossils from Wyoming reveal a new belemnite with the thickest bullet-shaped skeleton known for its group, and one of them sat unstudied in a drawer for years....

Why rabbits were a royal luxury in medieval England Rabbits were rare and pricey in medieval England, and historian Alex Brown explains how the Black Death helped turn them into everyday food and fur....

Why a physicist thinks we probably live in a quantum multiverse Physicist Philipp Strasberg argues in Scientific American that many worlds is the best answer to quantum mechanics' contradictory rules, though the idea remains contested....

Moche child’s tomb at Huaca de la Luna holds 32 offerings Archaeologists at Huaca de la Luna in Peru found the tomb of a Moche child, with 32 ceramic offerings and traces of a possible copper mask around the skull....

In China, researchers say fossils from Xujiayao show what a Denisovan face looked like Researchers in China say a collection of fossilized skulls, teeth and jaws from Xujiayao in northern China shows what the Denisovans, a group of ancient human relatives, looked like....

In Scotland, a face reconstruction shows an almost 1,900-year-old man from southern Britain A new facial reconstruction brings back the face of a man whose remains came from Inveresk, a Roman fort site near Edinburgh....

In England, a Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey may hold Abbot Aelfwig or Wulnoth, a study suggests A skeleton found inside a Roman limestone sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey in London most likely belonged to a high-ranking Benedictine monk, probably an abbot of the abbey, according to a new…

In China, archaeologists found a possible 5,000-year-old ritual hall beside Liangzhu’s royal tombs Archaeologists in eastern China have reconstructed the footprints of three wooden buildings beside Fanshan, an elite cemetery on the outskirts of the ancient city of Liangzhu in Zhejiang Province....

In Malta, a Study Suggests Romans and Other Classical-Era People Made Much of 2,628 Stone Tracks Malta has thousands of parallel grooves cut into its rock, often called cart ruts, and nobody has agreed on who made them....

In Bulgaria, a 2,500-Year-Old Thracian Temple Held a Bronze Ring With Four Hooks, Purpose Unknown Archaeologists excavating a Thracian temple in southern Bulgaria have found a bronze object that nobody can identify....

In Turkey, 2,100-Year-Old Coins Show Mithradates VI Using Medusa, a Myth That May Have Warned Rome A new study of coins and sculptures from Tokat Province in Turkey says King Mithradates VI of Pontus (about 120 to 63 BC) used Medusa imagery in his propaganda against Rome....

In a Spanish Cave, Five Roman Inscriptions Name a Goddess, Domina, and Several Include Female Names Researchers from the University of Alicante have recorded more than 120 Latin inscriptions in Cova de les Dones, the "Cave of the Women," near Millares in Valencia, Spain....

In Turkey, a 1,900-Year-Old Coffin Lid Has a Silenus Face Unmatched Among Known Terracotta Sarcophagi Archaeologists in western Turkey have identified a fragmentary Roman-era terracotta sarcophagus with a small Silenus head on its lid....

Off Turkey, Archaeologists Say They Found the World’s Oldest Shipwreck, 4,400 to 4,700 Years Old Archaeologists say they have found the world's oldest known shipwreck near Kekova Island, off the coast of Antalya in southern Turkey....

In Iraq, a 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal’s Shoulder Blade May Hold the Earliest Wooden Spear Wound In Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan, researchers have found a hole in a Neanderthal's left shoulder blade that may be the earliest evidence of a wooden spear attack on a human ancestor....

1,200 Years Ago in Peru, a Hairless Dog Was Mummified. Its Skull Still Has Skin, Ears, and Red Cinnabar Researchers at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru, found a naturally mummified hairless dog at least 1,200 years old. Its skull keeps its skin and ears and is colored with red cinnabar....