Scientists Found a Massive Pit Full of Human Remains from Nearly 700 Years Ago

Historical records from 1350 show that as many as 12,000 people were buried in 11 “ plague pits ” outside the city of Erfurt, ...
Live Science

Dionysus and his erect penis depicted on 2,500-year-old bone stylus found in Sicily

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...
Popular Mechanics

A New Study Revealed the Secret Origin of One of America’s Most Mysterious Monuments

Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E. A new study proposes that the impressive ...

Researchers develop non-destructive spectrometry technique for analyzing fragile archaeological ivory

A research team led by Prof. Wang Zhenyou at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Medieval mass grave unearthed in Germany may contain remains of Black Death victims

Find marks first systematically identified burial site associated with plague burials in Europe, scientists say ...
Phys.org

Possible ancient artifacts are found in a B.C. thrift shop—and archaeology scholars are on the case

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2024. This email was from a thrift shop, Thrifty Boutique in ...