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 ...

Troy IX (ca. 85 B.C.-500 A.D.) After around 500 A.D., two major earthquakes struck the city, and Troy once again fell into decline. This time, the city would never really recover. It was ...

The rulers of Egypt's 26th Dynasty contended with the prospect of foreign invasion from the start. The initial threat came from the Assyrians to the northeast, but the dynasty’s founder, Psamtik ...

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BURGOS, SPAIN—A study employing new dating methods and techniques by researchers from the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution shows that the sediments at the Gran Dolina site ...

Is Troy VII Homer’s Troy? Some scholars believe that Troy VII and not Troy VI should perhaps be seen as the city made famous by Homer’s poems. That is because between 1220 B.C.-1180 B.C., the ...

Archaeologists rarely unearth the remains of large predators such as leopards, lions, and bears. But University of Haifa archaeologist Ron Shimelmitz and his colleagues wondered if, by looking at ...

SALLINS, IRELAND—Archaeologists working at a bypass construction site near the village of Sallins in County Kildare have made a host of discoveries dating back over 1,000 years, according to a ...

Explore Norway with our archaeological map!Interactive Map: Norway There are mountains plunging into the sea from hundreds of meters, there are fjords, tall mountain peaks, northern lights and ...

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PHOENIX, ARIZONA—Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel of Arizona State University and his colleagues have examined the base of a partial cranium of Ardipithecus ramidus, the 4.4 million-year-old ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to a report in The International Business Times, a recent study suggests that the sizes of human ancestor brains and teeth did not evolve together. Modern humans ...