Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked13
- From Around the Web, Ancient Archeology
- August 24, 2016
Finding the long lost patterns on a piece of ancient Greek sculpture can be as easy as shining a lamp on it.
Finding the long lost patterns on a piece of ancient Greek sculpture can be as easy as shining a lamp on it.
A new study led by a Binghamton University archaeologist contradicts the belief that the ancient civilization of Rapa Nui, Chile, was destroyed by warfare.
Archaeologists have recently stumbled upon a unique finding – a giant underground city that is certain to rewrite history books forever.
Woman’s grave could shed new light on prehistoric religious life in what is now Israel
For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex — an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data — has been of great interest to scholars around the world.
Long before Columbus reached the Americas, Cahokia was the biggest, most cosmopolitan city north of Mexico. Yet by 1350 it had been deserted by its native inhabitants the Mississippians – and no one is sure why
A team of archeologists has unearthed a set of slate-stone instruments that are similar to scalpels. The artifacts are 4,000 years old and are believed to have been used by ancient Peruvian healers to make surgical incisions on patients.
The ‘Guadeloupe Woman’ is a skeleton that had been discovered in an impossible place.
A small gold bead shows that Copper Age people in the Balkans were processing gold 6,500 years ago
This temple at Cholula dwarfs the Great Pyramid at Giza, yet it went unnoticed by Spanish invaders. Why?