Ancient History

Climate data stored in a cave shows a lack of rain around the year 520 coincided with societal upheaval in Arabia.

The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice has been marked for thousands of years by people in different parts of the world.

"Any parent will recognize that... It's a glimpse backwards [in time]," archaeologist Joe Watkins, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, told Newsweek.

"This is perhaps the first complete vessel found from this period in the caves of the Judean Desert," said Amir Ganor, from the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The raid was conducted in the ultra-Orthodox Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem over suspicions of illegal antiquities trading.

"We can imagine Mary Magdalene coming to the synagogue here... to participate in religious and communal events," said archaeologist Dina Avshalom-Gorni.

Scientists have recreated the faces of three ancient Egyptian men using DNA which is around 2,500 years old.

Some such boats, which were often used to ferry cargo from place to place, date back to the Neolithic era.

The 110 tombs contained a variety of archaeological artifacts, including pottery, jewelry, kitchenware, and, of course, human remains.

"The key finding is that we are able to map the whole town in great detail without digging," said archaeologist Martin Millett.

Some researchers consider Homo erectus to be the immediate ancestor of our own species, Homo sapiens.

"If Nefertiti was buried as a pharaoh, it could be the biggest archaeological discovery ever," said Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves.

Researchers wanted to investigate the feasibility of restoring vocal sounds of ancient human remains.

Research has shed new light on one of the most notorious natural disasters in history.

The artifact was created by the Wari culture which developed in what is now the Peruvian Andes and flourished between 500-1000 A.D.

"Feasting, almost invariably associated with sacrifice, was a social necessity of early societies," researcher Finbar McCormick said.

The head cones were found in two separate graves at the archaeological site of Amarna

Little is known about the Aksumite Empire, which ruled over what is now Eritrea and northern Ethiopia hundreds of years ago.

New discoveries are challenging the traditional view held by many archaeologists that all Viking warriors were men.

The bust is one of the finest and most important surviving pieces of Ancient Egyptian artwork.

The findings were made at Saqqara—a site that once served as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

The settlement lies at an altitude around 5,000 feet higher than the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu.

Archaeologists uncovered the ancient city using a revolutionary imaging technology known as LiDAR, which essentially lets you "see through" vegetation.

The Minoan Civilization, which flourished on the Greek island of Crete in ancient times, is considered by many to be the birthplace of "high culture" in Europe.

The letter is the oldest known Christian documentary evidence from the Roman province of Egypt, providing fascinating details about some of the earliest adherents to the religion.

Researchers say their findings at the 'Ein Qashish site show open-air sites may have been more important to Neanderthals than previously thought.

At least 170 of the 4,500 manuscripts in Egypt's Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai have text invisible to the naked eye.

The stone has a weird and varied origin story.

The finding could date back to a vanquished Iron Age kingdom that once went toe-to-toe with the Assyrians for dominance over the Middle East.

Researchers pieced together data from thousands of ancient tablets to make a road map to 11 lost cities.