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Cíes Dig Confirms First Large Iron Age House and Centuries of Settlement

Finds at Castro de Hortas point to a sizable pre‑Roman community that endured on the islands.

Pompeii Unveils AI Reconstruction of Man Who Tried to Flee Vesuvius

3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Settlement Unearthed in Saxony With Exceptionally Preserved Longhouses

Czech Highway Survey Uncovers 25-Hectare Celtic Trade City From the Iron Age

Archaeologists Confirm Rediscovery of Alexandria on the Tigris in Southern Iraq

Viking-Age Mass Burial Unearthed Near Cambridge Reveals Brutal Deaths and a Trepanned Giant

Oldest Known Wooden Tools Found in Greece, Dated to 430,000 Years

Hawass Says Search Nears Nefertiti’s Tomb in Valley of the Kings

New Study Says 'Little Foot' May Represent an Unknown Australopithecus Species

Viking-Age Grave in Norway Shows Unprecedented Scallop Shell Placement at Woman’s Mouth

Study Details 60-Tool Aboriginal Cache Near Boulia, Suggesting Planned Trade

Survey Recasts Kazakhstan’s 3,500-Year-Old Semiyarka as a 346-Acre Planned Settlement

Study Finds Early Maya Monument Aguada Fénix Is a Vast Cosmogram Built by Communal Labor

New Finds at Aguada Fénix Show 3,000-Year-Old Maya Monument Was a Built Cosmogram

103 Years After King Tut’s Tomb Was Found, Its Legacy—and a New Museum Showcase—Define the Story

Eight New Archaeological Sites Identified Across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Barikot Dig Expands

Dorset Excavation Points to Iron Age Human Sacrifice, With Victims Cast Onto Bone Platforms

Tulsa Launches Largest Excavation Yet at Oaklawn to Identify 1921 Massacre Victims

Student Unearths Rare Carved Stone That May Depict Pictish Face at East Lomond

Albania Uncovers First Monumental Roman Tomb Naming 'Gelliano'