Tag: Archaeological Excavations

The Mask of Agamemnon, a gold funerary mask of a man's face, was discovered at the Mycenae archaeological site in Greece around 1500 B.C. Initially believed to belong to the mythical king Agamemnon, further...

A recent discovery of fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores has provided new insights into the origins of the diminutive protohumans known as Homo floresiensis, or the so-called Hobbits. The fossils, dating back...

An ancient Peruvian temple discovered under a sand dune is rewriting what we know about civilizations that lived up to 3,500 years before the Inca. The temple reveals the early emergence of institutional religion...

An ancient hoard of Persian coins was recently discovered in Notion, an ancient city-state in modern-day Turkey, shedding light on the political landscape of the late fifth century B.C. The hoard, consisting of darics,...