Strontium isotope analysis can be applied to animal and plant tissues to help determine their provenance. Here, the authors generate a strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa using data from 2266 ...

It represents the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, predating other archaeological evidence of the spread of the religion throughout that region by decades. "This ...

The small, silver amulet was originally found in 2018 at the archaeological site of Nida—an ancient Roman town located near the former northern frontier of the empire in what is now the suburbs ...

“This applies to archaeology as well as to religious studies, philology, and anthropology. Such a significant find here in Frankfurt is truly something extraordinary.” The amulet was found in ...

Discovering a human brain at an archaeological site is more common than you might think. A new archive catalogs some 4,400 ancient brains that have been found dried out, frozen or otherwise ...

Below we highlight some of the most compelling archaeological discoveries of the year, and as a bonus, some of the most interesting findings in human genomics and paleoanthropology. These ...

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia. Archaeologists in Kuwait have ...

The latest discovery was particularly significant as previous finds of pottery fragments in the region could not definitively prove Roman settlement, as they might have been discarded by travellers ...

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BALLARI: In a shocker, Neolithic ash mounds that are over 5,000 years old and protected by the state Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Sangankallu village on the outskirts of Ballari city ...