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Every weekday, the latest archaeological news is posted by the Archaeological Institute of America. Although the range of articles and new stories is vast–everything from ancient Libya to sunken warships from the Second World War–many of them are sure to delight and interest you. Please click here to access the site and be sure to…

Construction of the Top of the Egyptian Pyramids: An Experimental Test of a Levering Device By Robert Scott Hussey-Pailos Master’s Thesis, University of Florida, 2005 Abstract: A… [continue reading]

An international team of paleoanthropologists and archaeologists from the Universities of Vienna, Oxford, Tübingen, the Senckenberg Research Institution (Frankfurt am Main) and other institutions, used Virtual Anthropology methodology to analyse… [continue reading]

Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. Researchers at the University of York and the University of Bradford analysed… [continue reading]

At long last, a scholarly book in English has been published exclusively on Sasanians of ancient Persia. Dr. Touraj Daryaee, the Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine,…

Rome means different things to different people. Some associate Rome with its ancient civilization and massive empire; to others, it’s the center of the Roman Catholic Church and the vibrant capital of modern Italy. For many though, it’s the “eternal city,” a metropolis which exemplifies magnificence, art, and culture. Robert Hughes, the acclaimed Australian art-critic,…

Teutoberger Wald, 9 A.D. – Strategic Implications By John M. D’Amico US Army War College, 2000 The Battle of Teutoberger Wald (9 A.D.) in which tribal Germans defeated a highly professional and disciplined Roman Army… [continue reading]

An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a child. Researchers from the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, which oversees the Poggio Colla excavation site some 20 miles northeast of Florence,…

Britain’s Portable Antiquities Scheme announced this week details about two recent discoveries of Roman coin hoards. One involved the find of more than 9000 coins that was discovered in August 2009 by a novice metal detector user in the Shrewsbury… [continue reading]