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Peach illustration by Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1885)) UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA—According to a statement released by Penn State University, while peaches were likely first introduced to North America by Spanish explorers, the fruits traveled across the continent along Indigenous networks starting in the early 16th century. Indigenous populations quickly...

‘Focaccia’ experimentally baked with animal fat in a replica husking tray inside a domed oven BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), researchers from the UAB, Rome’s University La Sapienza, the Milà I Fontanals Institution, and France’s University of Lyon suggest that Late...

THESSALONIKI, GREECE—The Associated Press reports that a new six-mile-long subway line through the center of the city of Thessaloniki will open on November 30. Artifacts uncovered during the construction project, which began in 2003, will be displayed in the 13 subway stations. In all, more than 300,000 objects were recovered....

WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to an Associated Press report, a 4,000-year-old network of canals has been spotted in Belize using drones and Google Earth imagery of the Yucatán coastal plain. Eleanor Harrison-Buck of the University of New Hampshire said that the earthen canals zigzag for several miles through wetlands, and would have...

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—According to a statement released by Johns Hopkins University, evidence for possible early alphabetic writing has been identified on four finger-sized clay cylinders uncovered in Syria at the site of Umm-el Marra by archaeologist Glenn Schwartz. The cylinders have been dated to around 2400 B.C., or about 500 years...

Village of Saksun, Faroe Islands TORSHAVN, FAROE ISLANDS—An archipelago of 18 islands lying in the North Atlantic roughly halfway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands were colonized by Norse settlers sometime between a.d. 872 and 930. According to the Færeyinga Saga, a later literary account of that event,...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, archaeologists have uncovered two fragments of terracotta figurines in the southern province of Hatay within Antakya's Küçükdalyan neighborhood. A team led by Hatice Pamir of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University uncovered an area including a hippodrome, temple, and palace complex. At the site...

CAIRO, EGYPT—The National News reports that a joint Egyptian-German archaeological team led by Mohamed Abdel Badie of the Central Administration for Upper Egypt Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen unearthed a temple pylon on the western side of the main temple at the site of Athribis in...

ROME, ITALY—Italian police seized an array of third-century b.c. Etruscan artifacts that looters had found on their own land in the Umbrian town of Città della Pieve and had attempted to sell on the black market, according to a report in The Straits Times. Two sarcophagi, eight stone urns carved...

Mudbrick room, Casas del Turuñuelo, Spain GUAREÑA, SPAIN—Archaeologists working at the site of Casas del Turuñuelo in central Spain have unearthed evidence that the native Tartessians, a little understood Iron Age culture, used advanced, sustainable methods of construction to build what remains the best-preserved earthen building in the Mediterranean,...

Situated at the junction between Africa and Asia, Gaza is a critical archaeological landscape. But the region's heritage is currently facing an unprecedented risk of loss....

China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed the use of silk in sacrificial rituals by a Bronze Age civilization in the Yangtze River Basin. The findings provide direct archaeological evidence that silk was used as a material during rituals at the...

The U.N.'s Human Development Index provides new explanations for the success of Europe's first mega settlements....

The Nebra Sky Disc, which is more than 3,600 years old, is a unique find of international standing and has been part of the UNESCO "Memory of the World" register since 2013. It can be considered one of the best-researched archaeological objects, but the question of the manufacturing process of...

A pair of archaeologists with the University of Coimbra, working with a colleague from the National Museum of Kenya and another from Bergen Maritime Museum, believe a shipwreck found near the southernmost part of the African coast might be the remains of the galleon São Jorge—a Portuguese ship believed to...

An international team of researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Ron Pinhasi of the University of Vienna and David Reich of Harvard University has produced the most complete set of Early Neolithic genetic data from Central Europe to date....

A study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa by archaeologists Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Prof. Margarita Díaz-Andreu explores the intriguing relationship between Zimbabwean rock art and musical instruments....

Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America's Yucatan peninsula....

A team of bioarchaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Université de Bordeaux, and Aix-Marseille Université has found evidence of an aristocratic family in France embalming their loved ones after death for nearly two centuries. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the...

A Wyoming archaeological site where people killed or scavenged a Columbian mammoth nearly 13,000 years ago has produced yet another discovery that sheds light on the life of these early inhabitants of North America....