Archaeology

Rare Zhou dynasty gold relics discovered in northwest China

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Archaeologists have unearthed a rare gold relic in a ruined city in China’s northwest Shaanxi province.

11 Jan 2019 - 1:40pm

Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location is solved, say experts

Easter Island statues: mystery behind location is solved, experts say

11 Jan 2019 - 7:06am

A skull-like stone carving and a stone torso depict Xipe Totec, the “Flayed Lord”, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse. They were excavated from the Ndachjian – Tehuacan archaeological site in Tehuacan, Puebla state, at a temple dedicated to the deity. Photo: AP

Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’, whose human tributes were skinned, found in Mexico

4 Jan 2019 - 6:35am

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China’s stone-age beast faces

2 Jan 2019 - 11:54am

Ancient tombs with warrior relief sculptures found in southwest China

Warrior sculptures found in ancient Chinese tomb complex

27 Nov 2018 - 12:49pm 2

So-called Levallois cores discovered in China. The ancient tools date back to between 80,000 and 170,000 years ago. Photo: Marwick et al

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21 Nov 2018 - 4:28am 1

This undated photo provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture on Tuesday shows remains of walls and floors, probably from houses, from the lost ancient city of Tenea. Photo: AP

Lost city of Tenea, linked to Trojan war, is discovered in Greece

14 Nov 2018 - 5:42am

Workers carry mummified cats that were discovered in the tomb. Photo: Reuters

Dozens of cat mummies found in ancient Egyptian tomb

12 Nov 2018 - 11:54am

The Indonesian cave painting. Photo: AP

Indonesian cave painting identified as oldest figurative art

8 Nov 2018 - 8:39pm

Massive cache of Hebrew documents was believed to date back to the days of Jesus
The Museum of the Bible’s opening was mired in controversy

Museum admits some of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake

23 Oct 2018 - 9:04pm

The remains of a 10-year-old buried during the fifth century in an ancient Roman cemetery in Italy's Umbria region. Researchers believe the child died of malaria and a stone was deliberately inserted into the mouth after death to prevent the child from rising from the dead. Photo: David Pickel/Stanford University

Archaeologists discover bizarre burial site of ‘Vampire of Lugnano’

16 Oct 2018 - 1:37am

There was no immediate confirmation that Saga would be crowned ‘Queen of Sweden’, in an echo of the Arthurian legends of the sword in the stone and the lady of the lake

Girl, 8, pulls 1,500-year-old sword from lake in Sweden

6 Oct 2018 - 3:30am 9

Opponents of archaeological digs by the Kremlin-backed Russian Military History Society say they are trying to cover up Stalinist purges in a forest where thousands were executed

Kremlin archaeologists are accused of burying Stalin’s atrocities

13 Sep 2018 - 12:25pm

Collection at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum includes a gold hat decorated with gems that was discovered in a Ming dynasty prince’s tomb and items from the shipwreck Nanhai No. 1

Never-seen-before objects shed light on China’s maritime silk routes

14 Aug 2018 - 6:03pm

The Vikings’ descendants thrived on a lucrative trade in walrus tusks, which were sold to Europe’s elite and carved into luxury items. Photo: AP

Greenland’s Vikings may have been doomed by failing ivory market

8 Aug 2018 - 10:07pm

A groundbreaking analysis of 5,000-year-old bone fragments show that the people buried at Stonehenge in southern England came from far away

The secrets of Stonehenge are revealed in human ashes buried there

3 Aug 2018 - 1:45pm

A 14,500-year-old breadcrumb found in Jordan. Photo: Lara Gonzales Carratero

World’s oldest bread, baked 14,500 years ago, is found in Jordan

17 Jul 2018 - 7:42pm

Excavation workers at Saqqara, in Giza on July 14, 2018. Photo: AP

Archaeologists in Egypt discover mummification workshop

14 Jul 2018 - 10:53pm

A century on from Peking Man, the discovery of fossils in China and beyond over the last decade has given palaeoanthropologists pause for thought, suggesting that, maybe, Africa was not the only ‘human cradle’

Asia, cradle of humankind? New fossil finds are rewriting history

12 Jul 2018 - 4:20pm

The latest find of 96 stone tools indicates human relatives trekked from Africa about 250,000 years earlier than thought

Chinese archaeology find has changed our understanding of human history

12 Jul 2018 - 10:17pm 3

An Italian officer looks at Greek and Roman objects recovered on Wednesday after police dismantled an international ring trafficking ancient artefacts. Photo: Carabinieri Police via AP

25,000 antiquities seized in European crackdown on trafficking ring

5 Jul 2018 - 6:07am

Footprints found in Shandong province suggest beasts were social and travelled together, scientists say

Did Jurassic World raptors once roam in packs across China?

19 Jun 2018 - 6:21pm

Archaeologists continue work at the excavation site La Cruz, where the remains of more than fifty children presumably sacrificed in a ritual of the pre-Columbian Chimu culture were discovered. Photo: AFP

56 children as young as six found in new mass sacrifice site in Peru

9 Jun 2018 - 3:13pm

This image courtesy of Zhe Chen and Shuhai Xiao and released by Virginia Tech University shows the earliest known footprints left by an animal on earth. It is unclear what kind of creature left the tracks, which lie just a few millimeters apart and look like a two rows of shallow depressions, or holes, marked in the dark gray limestone. Photo: Virginia Tech via AFP

The world’s oldest animal footprints discovered in China - and they’re tiny

7 Jun 2018 - 7:22am 1

A 150-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton, which is 70 per cent intact, was bought at an auction at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Rare dinosaur skeleton sold for more than US$2 million at auction

5 Jun 2018 - 6:05am

Photos show the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb that had been violently thrown by the volcanic cloud. Photo: AP

Discovery shows man was crushed by stone as he fled Pompeii eruption

31 May 2018 - 6:34pm

The 70-metre long drawing of an orca discovered near Palpa, Peru. Photo: Twitter / Bradshaw Foundation

Ancient mystery: giant drawing of killer whale found in Peru desert

29 May 2018 - 9:26am

Archaeologists inspect excavation works in the archaeological site of Pompeii where they discovered a street of houses with intact balconies that were buried when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Photo: AP

Archaeologists uncover a street of balconies in Pompeii

18 May 2018 - 10:05am

Radar scans have put to rest theories that the tomb of Queen Nefertiti might be located behind a secret wall in the king’s ancient tomb

No pyramid scheme! King Tut’s tomb doesn’t have secret passage: expert

7 May 2018 - 5:31am

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