TIBERIAS, ISRAEL—The Associated Press reports that building foundations unearthed in northern Israel may have been an early mosque constructed shortly after the city of Tiberias came under Muslim rule, and not a Byzantine marketplace later converted to a mosque, as had been previously thought. (...)

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND—Yahoo News reports that traces of a previously undocumented ornamental garden have been discovered in the West Midlands at the site where Coleshill Manor once stood. Archaeologists were documenting the remains of the house, which was damaged by fire and torn down in the (...)

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by Tel Aviv University, researchers Naama Sukenik and Orit Shamir of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University, and David Iluz and Alexander Varvak of Bar-Ilan University have recovered and identified a (...)

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists from the University of Cambridge X-rayed more than 300 medieval skeletons from three local cemeteries dated from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries, when the town was inhabited by artisans, merchants, and farmhands, in (...)

KAKADU, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by the University of Queensland, archaeologist Anna Florin, Mirarr Traditional Owners, and their colleagues analyzed the shells of pandanus nuts unearthed at Madjedbebe, an archaeological site in Australia’s Northern Territory dating back some (...)

JENA, GERMANY—Science Magazine reports that scientists examined the dental calculus from the teeth of eight skeletons unearthed in Sudan and Kenya that were dated to between 2,000 and 6,000 years old. The presence of milk proteins in the hardened plaque indicates that the people had consumed (...)

SŁUSZKÓW, POLAND—The First News reports that a medieval treasure of more than 6,000 pieces has been recovered in west-central Poland by archaeologist Adam Kędzierski of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He had been researching the discovery of a medieval (...)

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a CNN report, dogs were likely domesticated in Siberia and northeast Asia some 23,000 years ago, before they traveled with humans west into Eurasia and east into the Americas across the Bering land bridge more than 15,000 years ago, based upon a review of genetic and (...)

SITKA, ALASKA—NBC News reports that archaeologist Thomas Urban of Cornell University and his colleagues have discovered traces of Shiskinoow, or "sapling fort," in southeastern Alaska’s Sitka National Historical Park on Baranof Island. The thick-walled fort, which was trapezoidal in shape, (...)

ATHENS, GREECE—The Greek City Times reports that excavations ahead of construction work near the Athens International Airport uncovered pieces of an ancient white marble sculpture of two women. The two main fragments, found facing each other, are thought to have been part of a burial monument. (...)