Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was made ...
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Rare Grave Stones Found in 177 year Old Graveyard

Step into the Whitesville Methodist Church Cemetery, where rare white bronze gravestones and family plots reveal stories ...
Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...
A student has discovered what is thought may be a rare carving of a Pict’s face while volunteering on a dig. Jodie Allan was digging at East Lomond hill fort in Fife, Scotland, when she found what she ...
Archaeologists found artifacts, dated between 9650 and 4900 BC, associated with the production of arrowheads. Photo by LWL/C. Hentzelt A group of amateur archaeologists made a surprising Neolithic ...
About 170 years ago a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the hard dirt of the remote outback. Who buried them and for what purpose? Why were they never ...