1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (311+ words) The excavation was led by researchers from the University of Barcelona, together with the Institute of the Ancient East, under the direction of Dr Maite Mascort and Dr Esther Ponce Milado. The team identified several burials, including mummies placed in…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (416+ words) The specimen is a lower molar featuring a small green stone set into the centre of its occlusal (chewing) surface. The material has been identified as jadeite. While stone inlays are well attested in Maya contexts, they are almost exclusively…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (213+ words) According to experts, these vessels appear to have been associated with special occasions, most likely ritualised feasting practices, and may have been linked to funerary contexts. Recent research conducted by a Polish'British team of archaeologists indicates that these communities were…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (297+ words) prajc argues that the structures are best understood as a regional form of built market. Their arrangement closely resembles descriptions of marketplaces recorded in central Mexico during the Spanish Conquest, as well as architectural complexes at Tikal and Calakmul that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (310+ words) The burials date to the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, when the Samnite people occupied this part of what is now the Campania region of Italy. Located a few miles from the coast along ancient routes connecting the Tyrrhenian Sea to the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (389+ words) The discoveries were made in the valley and canyon of the Coc'spera River near the United States border with Arizona. Specialists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) identified the settlement'named La Ci'nega'as part of the Trincheras cultural…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (204+ words) It was recovered at a depth of eight metres within a submerged cave system that is part of a sprawling network of cenotes and underground rivers between the tourist hubs of Tulum and Playa del Carmen. The cave passages, which…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (432+ words) The find was announced by Mayor Daniel Monteverde, who, together with a commission from the National Land Institute, confirmed the discovery on January 30. The engraved stone features spirals, concentric circles, and anthropomorphic figures believed to reflect the region's ancestral inhabitants…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (274+ words) Unearthed by a Peruvian research team of archaeologists in July last year, the mural is already reshaping academic perceptions of early Andean societies for its rarity and complexity. Unlike most known examples of ancient wall art in Peru, this piece…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (265+ words) The sculpture was unearthed within the foundations of an ovoid-shaped enclosure during archaeological salvage excavations for the M'rida'Progreso Railway Bypass, part of the Maya Train project. Carved from limestone and measuring a height of 45 centimetres, the sculpture has deep eye…...