In Zimbabwe, at the heart of the Zambezi plateau, African archaeologists are attempting to shed light on the history of Great Zimbabwe, one of the most fascinating sites in Africa. …

In the Dampier Archipelago, Australia, archaeologists are deciphering one of the greatest books ever written. A million motifs were carved in the rocks by the aborigines that are gradually being eroded away. …

LIMA—A team of archaeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the Peruvian Andes. Chavin de Huantar temple, located in the north-central Andes, was once a religious and administrative center for people across the region. The passageways were found earlier in May and have features believed to have been…

Piercing the soil in the heart of downtown London, a team of archaeologists uncovered Roman artwork from the ancient past, amidst the construction and community developments near The Shard. The city’s largest Roman mosaic found in 50 years was unearthed as part of a heritage conservation excavation by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) archaeologists. The…

AMMAN, Jordan—A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said Tuesday that it had found a roughly 9,000-year-old shrine at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s eastern desert. The ritual complex was found in a Neolithic campsite near large structures known as “desert kites,” or mass traps that are believed to have been used to corral…

LIMA—A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru’s central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said on Friday. The mummified remains were of a person from the culture that developed between the coast and mountains of the South American country. The…

JERUSALEM—Israeli archaeologists have found a rare ancient toilet in Jerusalem dating back more than 2,700 years, when private bathrooms were a luxury in the holy city, authorities said Tuesday. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the smooth, carved limestone toilet was found in a rectangular cabin that was part of a sprawling mansion overlooking what is…

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a Byzantine-period industrial-agricultural area, including several artifacts, thought to be 1,500 years old—far older than previously assumed. The dig, conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority, commenced on the outskirts of Tel Aviv ahead of a new neighborhood development planned in Ramat Ha-Sharon. Among other finds, the researchers unearthed plastered installations,…

AMATHUS, Cyprus—It’s said that Demetrius the Besieger, a mighty warrior king and one of Alexander the Great’s successors, built this harbor on Cyprus’s southern coast 2,400 years ago to thwart a potential naval invasion from the ruler of Egypt, Ptolemy I, another of Alexander’s heirs. French archaeologists who initially studied the ancient harbor of Amathus…

Archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University, working with colleagues from Wessex Archaeology, conducted detailed surveys of the Anchor Church Caves, between the villages of Foremark and Ingleby. Researchers say the rooms’ narrow doorways and windows closely resemble Saxon architecture. A rock-cut pillar is similar to those found in a Saxon crypt at nearby Repton that’s…