Australian and Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of the biblical city of Ziklag, whose ruins have been found in Tel a-Rai, near the town of Kiryat Gat in Israel. A first dating places them at the beginning of the 10th century BC, in the time of King David. This reinforces the
Carthage, the city founded in North Africa, in present-day Tunisia, by Phoenician emigrants from Tire at the end of the 9th century BC, was a prosperous state enriched mainly by trade and resources from the western Mediterranean. The rivalry with the polis of Magna Graecia and Sicily soon led to an
The archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca is located on the side of a hill next to present-day Toluca, in Mexico. The city, in which numerous buildings, temples and other structures have been excavated, was originally built by the Matlatzinca culture under the name of Tecaxic. The Mexicas conquered i
A name on line 31 of the Mesha Stela, where until now the scholarly consensus was that it read House of David , may be that of the Moabite king Balak mentioned in Numbers 22-24. This is what the researchers Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Naaman and Thomas Römer affirm in an article published in the jou
Göbekli Tepe is considered to be the oldest religious place of worship discovered, dating back to the 10th millennium BC. and deliberately buried around 8000 B.C. It is particularly important because it was built at a time when the sedentarization process had not begun, raised by hunter-gatherers,
The Roman site of Vindolanda, a castrum or auxiliary fortification south of Hadrians Wall occupied by the legions between 85 and 370 AD, near the town of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, continues to yield interesting finds. Recently a volunteer discovered a game board dated to the 3rd century AD. bu
Room 8 of the Cáceres Museum, dedicated to Roman epigraphy, exhibits a small part of the collection of inscriptions held by the institution. Among them stands out a stela from the town of Casar (the old Norba Caesarina) that bears an inscription that has not yet been deciphered. In addition, the fig
Slovak archaeologists working with the Polish mission at the Tell el-Retaba site in Egypt since 2007 have created a visual reconstruction of the settlement, showing what it may have looked like 3,500 years ago. The video shows the development of the town from the Second Intermediate Period to the N
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA in ancient chewing gum , chewed masses made of birch resin and bark, shows a new study conducted at Stockholm University and published in Communications Biology . There are very few human remains older than about
A team of anthropologists from the University of Louisiana, led by Heather McKillop, found a tool made of high-quality translucent jadeite with an intact rosewood handle in an ancient Maya salt pan in Belize (now submerged due to rising sea levels). The discovery of these high-quality materials -
A shield that was made from sheets of bark during the Iron Age has provided researchers with new insights into prehistoric construction, technology, and weaponry design. The shield, the only one of its kind in Europe, was found south of Leicester at the Everards Meadows site, in what is believed to
In 1885, forming part of the walls of a church in the town of Kaminia on the Greek island of Lemnos, a unique stele with inscriptions not yet deciphered was found. It has been dated to the 6th century BC, prior to the conquest of the island by the Athenians in 510 BC. to the Pelasgians. This was th
In 1706 the French explorer Paul Lucas, on a diplomatic mission in the Ottoman Empire, found the ruins of an ancient city in the southwest of the Anatolian peninsula in the Taurus Mountains. It would take more than a century until 1824 for an English antiquarian named Francis Arundell, then a chapl
In the year 103 AD Emperor Trajan ordered the construction of a bridge over the Danube River that would serve to cross and supply the troops in the imminent Second Dacian War against Decebalus, for which he was preparing the largest army since the time of Augustus, some 150,000 men. The person in c
The beginnings of archeology in general and of Egyptology in particular, beyond the curiosity that the ruins unleashed in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, arrived between the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, being structured by a series of names that are almost familiar
Archaeologists from the French mission who have been working since 2012 at the Kunara site in Iraqi Kurdistan have brought to light the remains of a hitherto unknown city some 4,000 years old that prospered on the borders of the first empire Mesopotamian, the Akkadian. Located in the foothills of t
A team of archaeologists from New York University, working on the temple of Ramses II in Abydos, discovered the foundation stones of the building, according to the Egyptian Council of Antiquities. The discovery came after finding the royal palace annexed to the pharaohs temple, discovered about 16
If a few days ago we reported the discovery of a piece of pottery with the image of the Egyptian god Bes in the Archaeological Park of the City of David in Jerusalem, now archaeologists have announced the discovery of a seal printed on a bulla (small stone used as an amulet or to seal documents in a
About 500 years before the Inca civilization, a group of people made ritual offerings to supernatural deities near the Isla del Sol on Bolivias Lake Titicaca, according to findings by a team of researchers. These findings suggest that organized religion emerged in the region much earlier than previ
In 1898 the Venetian archaeologist Giacomo Boni was appointed director of the excavations of the Roman Forum in the Italian capital, a position he held until his death in 1925. Among the finds he made during that period are an Iron Age necropolis, the Regia (first a barracks and then the seat of R
On the prehistoric site of Stonehenge, in England, archaeologist Susan Greaney recounts the fates of the hundreds of people who came to build this solar temple 4,500 years ago. An interconnected Europe that will unveil its mysteries in an exhibition at the British Museum. The prehistoric site of S
This body discovered in Finland belongs to a man with Klinefelter syndrome, characterized by an extra sex chromosome. The body, dressed in a womans coat held by two brooches, had been buried with swords (illustration). This article is from the magazine Sciences et Avenir - La Recherche n°896 dat
A funerary boat was unearthed in the enclosure of the necropolis of Abusir, a funerary complex near Cairo in Egypt. Explanations from naval archaeologist Patrice Pomey. Remains of a III-IV Dynasty funerary bark found at the site of Abusir in Egypt. NECROPOLIS. Stranded on a bed of stones, this fu
Researchers at Rutgers University (New Jersey) have discovered the first definitive evidence of the presence of common millet (Panicum miliaceum ) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of early human agricultural practices. Their findings appear in the journal Scientific Reports . Overall,