This cedar wood fragment is one of only three objects found inside the pyramid in 1872 by British archaeologist Waynman Dixon. It was found in Scotland, in a cigar box! The pyramids of Cheops, Kephren and Mekerinos, in Giza, Egypt, on October 21, 2020. More than seventy years after going missing,
The tomb of the official responsible for the secret documents of the royal chancery during the reign of Userkara, the second pharaoh of the 6th dynasty, was discovered by Polish archaeologists in Saqqara, next to the oldest pyramid in the world. It dates back to 4,300 years ago. So far, researchers
A rare piece of glass was discovered during an archaeological dig at Lindisfarne – the small Northumbrian island whose medieval monastery was raided by Vikings in 793 AD, heralding the start of the Viking Age in Britain. The piece was discovered in September 2019 during a community archaeological d
On the slopes of the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan lie the ruins of a thousand-year-old royal city. But archaeologists are worried about the future of this exceptional complex, now occupied by hundreds of people displaced by the surrounding fighting. The ruins of the 11th century Qala-e-Ko