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5,000-year-old stepwell found in Dholavira, said to be largest in India In one of the largest Harappan cities, Dholavira, in Kutch, a 5,000-year-old stepwell has been discovered, which is three times bigger than the Great Bath at Mohenjo Daro. Located in the eastern reservoir of Dholavira by experts working with IIT-Gandhinagar from the Archaeological Survey of India, the site represents […]

Researchers Confirm: The Largest Pyramid In Mexico Has Been Found An immense pyramid, much bigger than the Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun, was found by researchers in Mexico. It is 75 metres in height and has been studied by experts from the National Institute of History and Anthropology. It is found in the Tonina Acropolis, Chiapas and is possibly about […]

The World’s Oldest Art May Be This 430,000-Year-Old Zigzag on a Shell On the banks of the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, a remarkable fossil finding was discovered by 19th-century physicist Eugene Dubois: the bones of what seemed to be an ancient human, surrounded by animal fossils and shells. Excavated in the 1890s, the site gained fame as the home […]

Turkish bombing damages 3,000-year-old temple in Syria ‘3,000 years of civilization destroyed in an airstrike,’ ex-head of Syria’s antiquities department says of destruction at Ain Dara Syria’s Department of Antiquities and War Monitor said on Sunday that a 3,000-year-old temple was destroyed in a Turkish air attack on a Kurdish militia in the north of the country. Dating back to […]

Stunning 13th century tiled floor uncovered below Bath Abbey In finding a beautiful tiled floor under Bath Abbey in the 13th century, archaeologists made a “once-in-a-lifetime find” Around two metres below the current abbey floor level, the vividly coloured tiles were discovered and have not been seen in 500 years. They give a unique glimpse of what would have looked […]

A 90,000- year-old bone knife tips unique tools appeared early in Africa The artisan made the knife out of a mammal rib bone, and shaped and sharpened it into a 13cm long knife through a series of steps. Morocco is home to the oldest known bone artefact in the world: a 90,000-year-old knife which, according to a new report, archaeologists […]

800,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Discovered in UK On the storm-lashed beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, one of the fastest-eroding stretches of the British coast, the earliest human footprints found outside Africa, dating from 850,000 to 950,000 years ago, have been discovered. The sea tides that had revealed the prints last May destroyed them within a fortnight, leaving only casts and 3D […]

Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Found Beneath Demolished University Housing On a plot of land earmarked to become University of Cambridge accommodation, an Anglo-Saxon burial ground was found. More than 60 graves that date back to a similar period as the famous Sutton Hoo site, about 400-650 AD, were discovered by excavations at the site. Many of the burials newly discovered include grave goods […]

Stunning eagle sculpture uncovered at sacred Aztec temple in Mexico The discovery of a spectacular 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden eagle in an ancient temple in Mexico has been announced by archaeologists from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The largest statue ever carved in the temple is the Eagle, which measures 106 cm x 70 […]

Ancient Amazonian farmers have fortified valuable land that they have spent years making fertile to protect it Farmers in Bolivia have developed picket defences round beforehand nutrient-poor tropical soils that they have enriched over decades to secure them from social unrest. These long-term methods of soil administration allowed Amazonians to grow demanding crops of nutrients, equivalent to maize and manioc […]