In February 1976 archaeologists found a carved turtle head that has magnetic properties in the ceremonial center of Izapa in the coastal plain of the State of Chiapas in Mexico. Radiocarbon dating gave that sculpture a date of 1500 B.C. Some 150 km to the southeast, in the ancient ceremonial cente
A 3,500-year-old Minoan seal collected in 2015 among the treasures of the Tomb of the Warrior with the Griffin, shakes up the history of art in the Greek world. Original and incredibly detailed reconstruction of the battle scene found engraved on a Bronze Age agate seal, barely 3.5 cm. A delicate
A rare piece of glass was discovered during an archaeological dig at Lindisfarne – the small Northumbrian island whose medieval monastery was raided by Vikings in 793 AD, heralding the start of the Viking Age in Britain. The piece was discovered in September 2019 during a community archaeological d
Did the queen of Coba, one of the largest cities in the ancient Mayan world, build the longest known Mayan road to invade a smaller, more isolated neighbor and gain a foothold against the emerging empire of Chichen Itza? The question has long intrigued Traci Ardren, an archaeologist and professor o