Archaeology

Physics-guided AI ‘WisePanda’ snaps China’s shattered bamboo slips back together in minutes

WisePanda, unveiled in May 2025, uses physics and AI to help conservators match bamboo slip fragments 20× faster than manual methods, combining a simulator with a TripletNet ranking network.

 Physics-guided AI ‘WisePanda’ snaps China’s shattered bamboo slips back together in minutes.

In oxygen-deprived clay: 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in China

In oxygen-deprived clay: 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in China.

Muon telescopes set to map Khafre’s pyramid from the King’s Chamber

The Grand Gallery and the Ascending Passage towards the King's Chamber inside of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. View of the dark tunnel inside the pyramid with steps

Ancient inscriptions reveal identity of Great Pyramid builders

 Who built the Great Pyramid? The inscription found.

Neanderthals' 125,000-year-old 'grease factory' discovered at Neumark-Nord in Germany

The evidence constitutes the earliest clear case of intensive grease-rendering yet documented for the Paleolithic.


Opening of Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum gets postponed yet again

The grand opening of the GEM, which was set for July 3 – much delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises, and the COVID pandemic – has been postponed yet again.

  A view of the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, in April 2025.

50 centimeters vertical shaft leads archaeologist to hidden cave, secret burial site

The discovery was made following reports of bone theft and looting in the area.

 50 centimeters vertical shaft leads archaeologist to hidden cave, secret burial site.

How did the Romans make fish sauce? DNA reveals key ingredient

Analysis shows ancient sardines closely related to modern ones, confirming genetic continuity.

 Prepared by fermentation from fish, salted garum sauce in a bottle on a gray background.

AI helps decode cuneiform tablets revealing Babylon's hidden hymn

"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn - a process that would formerly have taken decades".

 A cuneiform tablet with the hymn.

Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes

Archaeologists unveil Peñico, a city that thrived 3,500 years ago, linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Amazon.

 A worker brushes a decorated wall at Limon archaeological complex, where two chambers used for political ceremonies of the Mochica culture, of more than 1,500 years old, were recently discovered according to archaeologist Walter Alva, in Lambayeque, Peru, January 10, 2018.

Archaeologist says Atlantis ruins found near Cadiz; giant tsunami likely caused its destruction

Michael Donnellan presented scans showing circular structures submerged on the ocean floor, aligning with Plato's descriptions.

 Underwater ruins. Illustration.

Ancient Egyptian potter lived into his 60s, genome sequencing reveals

His remains were preserved in a clay pot, enabling the first successful sequencing of ancient Egyptian DNA.

 Ancient Egyptian potter lived into his 60s, genome sequencing reveals.

Several walled oases uncovered in Saudi Arabia shed light on ancient community investment

Evidence suggests the walled oasis phenomenon began around 3000 BC at Tayma and Qurayyah and spread to the Harrat Khaybar region by the end of the third millennium BC.

 3D reconstruction of the Late Iron Age western enclosure in Dumat al-Jandal walled oasis

Lighthouse of Alexandria 80-ton blocks lifted from seabed in massive undertaking

Recovered blocks include monumental door lintels and jambs weighing up to 80 tons each.

 Lighthouse of Alexandria 80-ton blocks lifted from seabed in massive undertaking.