A Royal Kushan Seal Found in Tajikistan
Archaeologists from the National Museum of Tajikistan have recovered a fired clay seal at Sayyod, in the Abdurahmoni Jomi district of Khatlon province.
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Two Denisovan Leg Bones From the Taiwan Strait
A femur and a partial tibia dredged from the seafloor of the Penghu Channel have been identified as Denisovan from their collagen proteins, and they are among the largest leg bones known from Pleistocene Homo.
Second Fortress Found on Egypt's Way of Horus
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt has announced a second fortress at Tell el-Kharouba in North Sinai, along with a granite block bearing the cartouches of Ramesses II and the remains of a mudbrick temple.
These Paintings Were Made With Human Blood
Red figures cover the limestone cliffs above the Zuojiang river in Guangxi, in southern China near the Vietnamese border.
Five Hundred Pieces of Egyptian Blue From Iron Age Iran
Around five hundred objects made of moulded Egyptian blue paste have been identified in the Penn Museum's collections from Hasanlu and Dinkha Tepe, two Iron Age II sites in northwestern Iran.
The Nippur Medical Tablet
Penn Museum object CBS 14221 is a clay tablet from Nippur, 15.4 by 9.3 centimeters and 2.8 thick, ruled into three columns and written in Sumerian.
Göbekli Tepe: the north side of the mound is being excavated for the first time
Türkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that the 2026 season at Göbekli Tepe has moved into ground that has never been dug before.
Three Tombs at Sheikh Soby in the Bahariya Oasis
An Egyptian mission working at Sheikh Soby, in the Bahariya Oasis some three hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, has excavated three tombs holding mummies, limestone and pottery coffins, and a range of grave goods.
The Ancient “H”: Symbol, Script, or Coincidence?
Watch now | Across distant civilizations, strikingly similar “H” carvings appear in ancient stonework.
Six Copper Bells in a Bolivian Storehouse
A bundle of six pyramid-shaped copper bells was found inside a circular stone storehouse at Yoroma, a Yampara settlement in the Oroncota Valley of southern Bolivia.
The Living Goddess
Watch now | Cleopatra didn't just worship Isis. She put on the robe and became her. How Egypt's last pharaoh made herself a goddess..
A Roman Wine Vat Found on the Seabed off Elba
Two finds have come out of the seabed around Elba during monitoring work by the Soprintendenza for Pisa and Livorno.
Buried Face Down: The King Assyria Tried to Erase
Watch now | A colossal Neo-Hittite king, buried face down by Assyria in 738 BC and found again in 2012 with his stone eyes still open.
The Judean Stone Masks
Fifteen Neolithic stone masks are known from the Judean Hills and the desert below them.
Six Thousand Years of Burials Found in the Nile Delta
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced today that a mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has found a cemetery at Kafr al-Hattaba, in Dakahlia governorate in the eastern Nile Delta, with burials running from the Predynastic period through to Greek and Roman times.
A Ritual Well Found in the Sacred Area at Kainua
Excavators at the Etruscan city of Kainua, near Marzabotto in Emilia-Romagna, have found a well in the sacred area dedicated to the goddess Uni.
An Asclepius and Telesphoros Group Found at Aspendos
Excavations in Turkey's Aspendos, located in the province of Antalya, have yielded an incredible 2.20-meter-tall marble group statue.
Yangshan: The Monument That Could Never Be Moved
Listen now | Three colossal blocks of stone lie in a quarry outside Nanjing, cut in the early fifteenth century for a monument to the Yongle Emperor's father and never moved.
The Assyrian Treatise on Diseases of the Ear
Among the tablets recovered from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh is a single treatise devoted entirely to ailments of the ear.
A Rock Crystal Scraper and What MacCurdy Made of It
France’s National Archaeological Museum featured a small transparent scraper as its Object of the Month in September 2025.