JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a team of researchers including Yossi Zaidner of Hebrew University and Iris Groman-Yaroslavski of the University of Haifa suggest that U-shaped etchings on a 120,000-year-old piece of bone discovered in (...)

TALLINN, ESTONIA—ERR News reports that part of a ship’s hull has been unearthed in Tallinn, Estonia, which is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Priit Lätti of the Estonian Maritime Museum said that timber, sails, ropes, and metal from old ships would have been repurposed, a practice that (...)

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Geneva, a team of scientists led by Alessandra Varalli of Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University has analyzed the biochemical composition of plant remains and the collagen in human and animal bones discovered at Bronze Age sites (...)

LOM, BULGARIA—Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that three gold coins have been discovered in northwestern Bulgaria, at the site of the ancient city of Almus on the Danube River. The coins were minted during the reign of Emperor Michael VII Ducas, who gained control of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. (...)

ATHENS, GREECE—Neos Kosmos reports that underwater archaeologists under the direction of Dimitris Kourkoumelis of the Greek Ephorate of Marine Antiquities have returned to the wreckage of Mentor, which sank in a storm off the coast of the island of Kythira in 1802. The ship had been carrying (...)

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA—According to a statement released by the University of California, Santa Barbara, archaeologist Lynn Gamble compared and measured different types of shell beads made by California’s Chumash hunter-gatherers. Shell beads have been used in California for more than 10,000 (...)

LONDON, ENGLAND—A new study of teeth recovered in the early twentieth century from La Cotte de St. Brelade, a cave on the English Channel island of Jersey, suggests that they came from two individuals whose ancestry was made up of a mix of Neanderthals and modern humans, according to a Gizmodo (...)

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT—According to a BBC News report, 16 burials have been found in rock-cut tombs at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site near Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea coast, by a team of researchers led by Kathleen Martinez of Santo Domingo University. All of the poorly preserved mummies found (...)

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery made up of more than 60 graves was discovered in eastern England when several buildings constructed in the 1930s were demolished at King’s College. The cemetery was surrounded by ditches dug before the Romans (...)

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—Gizmodo reports that researchers Katerina Harvati and Alexandros Karakostis of the University of Tübingen and their colleagues created virtual models of modern human, chimpanzee, and hominin hands based on the shape and size of a thumb bone’s anatomy and its muscle attachments in (...)