ZAFAR, YEMEN—German archaeologist Paul Yule has investigated a carving of a “crowned man” in Zafar, Yemen. The man is shown wearing jewelry and curly hair. Yule thinks he represents a puppet ...

ARTEZIAN, UKRAINE—Two 2,000-year-old treasure hoards consisting of bronze coins and other items made of gold, silver, and glass have been discovered within a burned fortress at the site of Artezian.

POMPEII, ITALY—Now that a two-year restoration project has been completed, the Villa of the Mysteries has reopened to visitors. The building’s paintings, which feature life-sized figures, are ...

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—A petite pair of shoes labeled “Pauline Rome” has been discovered in the collections of the University of Aberdeen. Crafted from silk and leather, the early nineteenth ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—New carbon dates taken from charcoal at the only Buddhist monastery in the Taxila Valley suggest that it was built in the third century B.C., or at least 300 years earlier ...

SOFIA, BULGARIA—A cellar containing Greek amphorae has been discovered in the Bulgarian coastal town of Nesebar by Aneliya Bozhkova of the National Archaeological Institute and Petya Kiyashkina ...

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA—A prehistoric boat effigy carved from brittle submarine volcano lava has been discovered on the surface of an archaeological site on San Clemente Island, which is ...

HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND—Martin Richards of the University of Huddersfield argues that modern humans did not reach southern Asia before the super-eruption of the Mount Toba volcano in Sumatra, some ...

NORFOLK, ENGLAND—An excavation in a field next to a nursery in the town of Aylsham has turned up two pottery kilns, thousands of broken pots, late Roman coins, and pieces of jewelry, according ...

MADRID, SPAIN—Discovery News reports that a new analysis of Cranium 17 from Spain’s Sima de […] ...

SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA—Ancient Egyptian images of the natural world have helped quantitative ecologist Justin Yeakel of the University of California, Santa Cruz, determine that the drying ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...