2019年3月21日 · URUMQI, CHINA—Xinhua reports that a large stone platform surrounded by polished stones has been discovered in northwest China at the Jartai Pass site, which dates to between 1600 and 1000 B.C ...

CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA—An Archaic Period campsite was found along the Minnesota River during a survey for bridge construction. The 8,000-year-old camp was protected by ten to 12 feet of peat ...

2. Walls. Troy I was one of the most heavily fortified sites in the region during the early Bronze Age. The limestone walls stood over 11.5 feet high and reached a thickness of almost 10 feet.

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Neolithic fortified settlement, Siberia (Courtesy Henny Piezonka). Researchers have learned that the earliest known fortresses in the world were built by Neolithic hunter-gatherers around 6000 B.C ...

2020年2月3日 · OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC—Radio Prague International reports that archaeologists are working to preserve a waterlogged wood-lined well discovered in 2016 during road construction. Analysis of the ...

2019年4月25日 · Digs & Discoveries September 1, 2011. Pieces of a Bronze Age Puzzle new interpretation of evidence for a previously enigmatic Bronze Age ritual dating from 2800 to 2300 B.C. has emerged.

MINYA, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that researchers from the University of Barcelona are investigating two tombs in Upper Egypt at the site of El-Bahnasa, which is also known as Oxyrhynchus. The ...

Used by scribes for more than three millennia, cuneiform writing opens a dramatic window onto ancient Mesopotamian life. By THE EDITORS. May/June 2016

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