Archaeologists

A joint Egyptian-US archaeological mission has uncovered the upper part of a huge statue of King Ramses II during excavations south of the Egyptian city of Minya, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday. The limestone…
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Archaeologists in Morocco have unearthed more than 80 human footprints dating back around 100,000 years and believed to be the oldest in North Africa. The footprints, probably left by five homo sapiens, including children, were…
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Architects working at a site to the south of AlUla governorate have excavated a 200,000-year-old hand ax, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. The discovery, announced by the Royal Commission for AlUla, was made as a team of…
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Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a river turtle thought to be more than 70 million years old. A joint research team from Cairo University and the New Valley University made the discovery in the city of Kharga in the…
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Peruvian archaeologists have discovered some 30 pre-Inca era graves in a cemetery belonging to the Chancay people, a group who inhabited valleys of Peru’s central coast from 1000 to 1500 AD. The newly found 800-year-old graves have…
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Archaeologists have discovered that some of the 20-foot-high monoliths in Ethiopia, or "obelisks", were built about 2,070 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists from Washington State University were able…
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Irish archaeologists have discovered a carved wooden statue, made more than 1,600 years ago, about six kilometers from a prehistoric royal settlement. Carved from the trunk of an oak tree, the statue is a anthropomorphic figure with a…
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Researchers at Leiden University and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands said that the first cultural revolution in human history took place about 400,000 years ago. The researchers confirmed that the first revolution…
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American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt, a top antiquities official said on Saturday. Mostafa Waziri, secretary…
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