Archaeology
Bayeux Tapestry headed back to Britain, a first in nearly a 1,000 years
In return, artefacts from the Sutton Hoo burial and the Lewis Chessmen will travel to Normandy as part of an unprecedented cross-Channel cultural exchange.
DNA study: Modern Jews and Arabs retain more than half their ancestry from Bronze Age ‘Canaanites’
Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old
Sirius Rising: The mystery of Canary Island churches pointing to the Dog Star
Roman-era 50-square-meter mosaic found almost untouched in Dara, Turkey
Archaeologist Devrim Hasan Menteşe says a coin from emperor Justinian I dates the floor to AD 525-575 and confirms Dara's status as a key Mesopotamian trade and pilgrimage center.
AI cracks Hammurabi’s ancient script with near-perfect accuracy
Computers now read cuneiform tablets almost flawlessly.
Where did date palms come from? Earliest secure evidence points to the Gulf, c. 5000 BCE
‘DateBack’ logs 154 archaeobotanical records and tracks the moment cultivation overtook mere consumption across West and South Asia.
Oldest known 15th-Century Orit Books of Ethiopian Jewry uncovered by TAU researchers
These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.
Sonar survey confirms mastodon carving at 9,000-year-old Lake Michigan’s ‘Underwater Stonehenge’
High-resolution imaging shows a human-made mile-long boulder array 12 m under Grand Traverse Bay, predating Stonehenge by 4,000 years.
High-precision radiocarbon tests shift Huqoq’s mosaic synagogue to the late 4th century CE
Radiocarbon dating and micromorphology show the Galilee landmark was built about two centuries later than earlier style-based estimates.
AI identifies 20 key points per fresco piece, boosting mural restoration accuracy by 86%
Software rebuilds damaged wall-paintings from piles of shards in minutes instead of months.
Ancient wooden tools uncovered in China shed new light on early human diet, cognitive abilities
The tools include digging sticks made of pine and hardwood, hooks for cutting roots, and small, pointed implements for extracting edible plants from the ground.
‘This is from Moses’: Newly imaged Sinai inscriptions revive Exodus-era alphabet debate
High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted faint letters that one epigrapher reads as “This is from Moses.”
New sonar scans reignite legend of ‘Krishna’s sunken kingdom’ off Dwarka
Seabed scans found harbour-like masonry and Harappan anchors. India’s Archaeological Survey plans a winter 2025 dig and trains diver-archaeologists to see if myth meets submerged stone.
