archaeology

Even though archaeology claims that writing was invented in Sumer between 3,000 and 4,000 BC, a tablet that contradicted this perception was found in 1993 in Dispilio in the northern Greek province of Kastoria. The Dispilio Tablet is a wooden...

An intact skeleton of a woman lying next to a stunning necklace and other important artifacts from the Early Minoan era (circa 2,600 BC), were unearthed recently at the archaeological site of Sisi on Crete. Sisi, located in the prefecture...

Linear A, a writing system that was used by the ancient Minoans from 1800 to 1450 BC, has intrigued and frustrated experts for centuries. Despite the fact that it has never been fully decrypted, scientists and archaeologists believe they...

Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery of the oldest wooden structure that sheds new light on our history. They've found evidence that humans were using wood to build things much earlier than we originally believed and as early as...

Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day Turkey.

On a Friday morning last week, a Virgin Galactic spaceship traveled 88 kilometers above Earth, right to the edge of space. On that spacecraft, there were two experienced Virgin Galactic pilots, a teacher, and three passengers. But what made this...

New research points to a possibility that humans came close to dying out in the last one million years. The idea of a "population bottleneck" could help resolve some big questions about how we evolved, but there are still doubts...

Thousands of years ago, a collection of young bees got trapped in their cocoons within their nest. This nest, along with the mummified remains of the bees, has been found in Portugal. The preservation of these bees and their...

Researchers have extracted plant DNA from an ancient clay brick that was once a part of the palace of the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II. Following the sequencing of the isolated DNA, specialists have successfully categorized thirty-four plant groups, among them...

The Trojan War is one of the most famous legends of Greek mythology. However, there is intense debate about whether or not this famous event actually happened. For some time, scholars believed that even the city of Troy itself...