This week in archaeology, a 2,300-year-old bottle of Chinese beer emerged from a Zhou dynasty tomb near the Great Wall, while satellite imaging revealed 260 massive prehistoric burial sites hidden in Sudan's Atbai Desert. Closer to home, University of Calgary students unearthed a 2,000-year-old stone weapon tip at a city park, and a puzzling Egyptian amulet turned up 2,000 miles from Egypt in a Spanish tomb.
This week brought a cluster of remarkable finds: a mysterious ancient tunnel unearthed beneath Jerusalem during routine pre-construction excavations, a charred 2,000-year-old Roman bread loaf discovered at a Swiss legionary camp — the first of its kind in Switzerland — and a rare 1,000-year-old box uncovered beneath the ruins of an abandoned church. Separately, a DNA study is targeting the identities of Maryland's earliest European colonists.
This week in archaeology: orbital radar technology points to a possible second Sphinx buried beneath the Giza Plateau; a Ming dynasty cannon and daily-life artifacts emerge from a section of the Great Wall of China; AI nearly doubles the known count of Nasca Lines in Peru; and Bronze Age gold treasures surface in Hungary. Meanwhile, Archaeology Magazine reports new identifications from the doomed Franklin Expedition.
This week in archaeology, workers at a Colombian airport uncovered a staggering 360,000+ artifacts during construction, a sealed cave with 20,000-year-old perfectly preserved artworks was opened by scientists, and a 1,400-year-old Byzantine baptismal artifact with "no known parallel" emerged near the Sea of Galilee. From South America to the Middle East, fresh discoveries are reshaping our understanding of ancient human activity.
This week in archaeology, AI technology reconstructed the face of a Pompeii eruption victim for the first time, ancient human footprints in Saudi Arabia are rewriting migration history, and a single coin helped pinpoint the location of the doomed "Spanish Roanoke" colony in Patagonia. Researchers also launched a major five-year excavation beneath a Welsh medieval castle to investigate Neanderthal history in Britain.
This week brought a remarkable slate of archaeological discoveries spanning continents and millennia, from the exact site of Shakespeare's London house to a 6,200-year-old Romanian megastructure whose purpose still mystifies researchers. Sacred ritual complexes, ancient weaponry, and Neanderthal hunting behaviors also made headlines, while technology continues to reshape how we find and interpret buried history.
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