According to a report in the Chinese state-run Global Times, new archaeological evidence suggests that the world’s most famous wall is actually at least three hundred years older than we thought.

Interim excavation report (Vicino Oriente XXIX, 2024) links a ninth-century BCE inscription and two Bronze-Age fire layers to the Judges and Exodus narratives.

But archaeological evidence at one site called Madjedbebe in the far north of Australia's Northern Territory suggests the area may have been occupied much earlier — at least 65,000 years ago.

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Chris McKinny, Aharon Tavger, Nahshon Szanton, Joe Uziel, The Setting of the Assassination of King Joash of Judah: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Identifying the House of Millo, Journal of ...

Archaeologists unearthed the settlement of the female-dominated Neolithic Dawenkou culture in the Shandong province of ...

Grisly, 4,000-year-old forensic evidence found in a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains hints at a serious disagreement between ...

The United Nations' cultural organization conference voted Sunday to list the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which ...

For more than a century, people have sought the precise location of Noah’s Ark. Archaeologists say it’s a fool’s errand.

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

The shoes were discovered at Magna — also known as Carvoran — a fort along Hadrian's Wall, which was built around A.D. 122 to demarcate the northern extent of the Roman Empire.

More information: Amber M. VanDerwarker et al, Early evidence of avocado domestication from El Gigante Rockshelter, Honduras, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).