3400-year-old sunken city emerges from the Tigris River (Heritagedaily 06/01/2022)
A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have excavated a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city that has emerged in the Tigris River.
Severed head of Maya maize god unearthed in Palenque (Heritagedaily 06/01/2022)
Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have discovered a stuccoed stone head of a Maya god associated with maize.
Famous rock art cave in Spain was used by ancient humans for more than 50,000 years (Phys.org 06/01/2022)
A cave in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as a canvas for artwork and as a burial place for over 50,000 years, according to a study published June 1, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by José Ramos-Muñoz of the University of Cadiz, Spain, and colleagues.
Archaeologists uncover cache of bronze statues and sarcophagi at Saqqara (Heritagedaily 05/30/2022)
Archaeologists from the Saqqara Archaeological Mission have revealed a large cache of bronze statues and sarcophagi discovered at the Saqqara Necropolis, Egypt.
Archaeologists unearth an Aztatlán burial site (Heritagedaily 05/30/2022)
Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have discovered Aztatlán burials during construction works in the Sinaloa port of Mazatlan, Mexico.
Lost Maya city discovered in the Yucatan (Heritagedaily 05/27/2022)
Archaeologists from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have announced the discovery of a Maya city during construction works of an industrial park near Merida in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
First Pompeiian human genome sequenced (Phys.org 05/26/2022)
The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE is presented this week in a study published in Scientific Reports. Prior to this, only short stretches of mitochondrial DNA from Pompeiian human and animal remains had been sequenced.
‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon (Nature 05/26/2022)
The urban centres are the first to be discovered in the region, challenging archaeological dogma.
Over 100 ancient settlements discovered north of Hadrian’s Wall (Heritagedaily 05/25/2022)
Archaeologists have discovered 134 ancient settlements north of Hadrian’s Wall from around the period of the Roman occupation.
Stonehenge builders ate undercooked offal, ancient faeces reveals (The Guardian 05/20/2022)
Intestinal parasites recovered from prehistoric rubbish dumps shine light on lives and diet of builders.
Research confirms eastern Wyoming Paleoindian site as Americas’ oldest mine (Phys.org 05/19/2022)
Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming’s state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was used by humans to produce red ocher starting nearly 13,000 years ago.
Ancient DNA gives new insights into ‘lost’ Indigenous people of Uruguay (Phys.org 05/11/2022)
The first whole genome sequences of the ancient people of Uruguay provide a genetic snapshot of Indigenous populations of the region before they were decimated by a series of European military campaigns. PNAS Nexus published the research, led by anthropologists at Emory University and the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
