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A team of researchers has now employed a range of imaging techniques and methods of chemical analysis to better understand how the earliest known rubber balls from Mesoamerica were fashioned. https://archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2024/digs-discoveries/rubber-ball-recipe 3 comments 27/6/2024 history

2,000-Year-Old Horse Burials Unearthed in France https://www.archaeology.org/news/12429-240530-france-horse-burials 13 comments 1/6/2024 history

"Arabian Stonehenge" Uncovered in Oman Desert https://www.archaeology.org/news/11403-230428-oman-arabian-stonehenge 54 comments 30/4/2023 history

Researchers have determined that an obsidian mirror once owned by a 16th-century astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I was made by the Aztecs, who used mirrors of this kind in divination. https://www.archaeology.org/issues/459-2203/digs/10338-digs-england-obsidian-mirror 3 comments 14/4/2022 worldnews

A possible early precursor to art. https://www.archaeology.org/news/9997-210916-tibetan-plateau-prints 2 comments 17/9/2021 history

Researchers Date Timbers in Medieval Edinburgh Church https://www.archaeology.org/news/8794-200612-scotland-bell-tower 3 comments 12/6/2020 science

1,500-Year-Old Onion Discovered in Sweden https://www.archaeology.org/news/6538-180411-sweden-ancient-onion 25 comments 14/4/2018 nottheonion

Archaeologists in Iraq Discover Lost Cache of Assyrian Cuneiform Tablets https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6187-trenches-iraq-bronze-age-tablets 15 comments 14/1/2018 history

Roman Treasure Found in Ancient Shipwrecks Off the Coast of Alexandria, Egypt https://www.archaeology.org/news/6115-171121-egypt-crystal-head 73 comments 22/11/2017 history

Bones found in 'Massacre Cave', where up to 400 members of Scottish MacDonald clan were wiped out in 16th Century feud with rival MacLeods, prove to be those of a teenager who died between 1430 and 1620 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6085-171109-scotland-eigg-cave 839 comments 14/11/2017 history

In 2008, two viking burials with 2 ships, 41 corpses, and loads of treasure were found in Estonia. The findings re-write the beginning of the viking history. http://www.archaeology.org/issues/95-1307/features/941-vikings-saaremaa-estonia-salme-vendel-oseberg 10 comments 10/11/2016 history

Site of Idaho’s Bear River Massacre Located http://www.archaeology.org/news/4485-160524-idaho-bear-river-massacre 73 comments 25/5/2016 history

In Search of a Philosopher’s Stone - At a remote site in Turkey, archaeologists have found fragments of the ancient world’s most massive inscription http://www.archaeology.org/issues/180-1507/features/3344-turkey-oinoanda-epicurean-inscription 15 comments 4/8/2015 history

The Story of the Horse: How its unique role in human culture transformed history http://archaeology.org/issues/180-features/3345-the-horse-through-history 31 comments 14/7/2015 history

Mass Grave Detected at Nazi Concentration Camp http://www.archaeology.org/news/3197-150413-germany-mass-grave 10 comments 13/4/2015 worldnews

Small rock carving found of a pharaoh making offerings to Amun-Ra and Thoth, who are rarely portrayed together. http://www.archaeology.org/news/2870-150106-egypt-quarries-epigraphic-survey 6 comments 6/1/2015 history

Analysis of human and dog bones from a 30,000-year-old site in the Czech Republic shows that while humans ate large quantities of mammoth meat, dogs had a diet that consisted of mostly reindeer. http://www.archaeology.org/news/2729-141124-mammoth-consumption-hunting 3 comments 25/11/2014 science

Genetic analysis of the 47,000-year-old remains of a man unearthed in Russia shows he carried DNA from three distinct groups of modern humans, as well about one percent more Neanderthal DNA than today’s Europeans and Asians. http://www.archaeology.org/news/2692-141107-kostenki-european-dna 5 comments 7/11/2014 science

Erbil Revealed - How the first excavations in an ancient city are supporting its claim as the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world http://archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2419-kurdistan-erbil-excavations 3 comments 6/10/2014 history

Castaways - Illegally enslaved and then marooned on remote Tromlein Island for fifteen years, with only archaeology to tell their story http://www.archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2361-tromelin-island-castaways 7 comments 18/9/2014 history

Early Roman Military Encampment Detected in Austria http://archaeology.org/news/2243-140619-austria-roman-encampment 16 comments 21/6/2014 science

Archeologists discover 9000 year old prehistoric wall under Lake Huron used to hunt Caribou before the lake existed http://archaeology.org/news/2068-140429-lake-huron-caribou 281 comments 1/5/2014 science

Nordic Grog Latest of Dogfish Head's Ancient Brews—Residues of pottery sherds from ancient Scandinavian settlements dating to 1200 BC are inspiration for Delaware-based brewey's latest ancient ale, Kvasir. It's a Nordic grog with yarrow, lingonberries, cranberries, bog myrtle, & birch syrup. http://www.archaeology.org/news/1672-dogfish-head-kvasir-patrick-mcgovern 57 comments 24/12/2013 history

The sound of the prehistoric language, proto-indo-european language, has been reconstructed to what it most probably would sound like. Sound file included http://archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable 4 comments 26/9/2013 science

Archaeologists are using both reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language and mythology to understand a Bronze Age site in Russia. http://www.archaeology.org/issues/102-1309/features/1205-timber-grave-culture-krasnosamarskoe-bronze-age 2 comments 18/9/2013 linguistics

How was the Great Pyramid built? I just read an interesting theory that says an internal ramp spiraled up inside of the pyramid. What's more, there is evidence of such a ramp. http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.html 21 comments 1/9/2011 history

“Digital archaeologists” excavate the microprocessor that ushered in the home computing revolution http://www.archaeology.org/1107/features/mos_technology_6502_computer_chip_cpu.html 5 comments 12/7/2011 technology

World's Earliest Wine (7000 years old) has been found in IRAN http://www.archaeology.org/9609/newsbriefs/wine.html 52 comments 3/11/2010 science

Digging the Scorched Earth: Archaeologists reveal the legacy of brutal Civil War tactics in Missouri http://www.archaeology.org/1003/abstracts/civilwar.html 11 comments 21/2/2010 history

Should We Clone Neanderthals? http://www.archaeology.org/1003/etc/neanderthals.html 5 comments 12/2/2010 reddit.com

Skeletons (literally) in the Mormon closet: “Mountain meadows massacre” involved Mormons who dressed up as Native Americans and killed at least 120 pioneer men, women and children http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/mormons.html 3 comments 9/1/2009 politics

Evidence of historical zombie attack at Hierakonpolis http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html 7 comments 8/11/2007 science

Pyramids in Bosnia? These guys say it's a hoax http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/ 10 comments 1/5/2006 reddit.com