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Karaganda archaeologists discover Saka-era granite sculpture
Karaganda archaeologists have discovered an unusual sculpture resembling the Scythian monuments of the Black Sea region.
05 October 2013
New work sets timeline for the first pharaohs
Archaeologists drawing on a wide range of tools said on Wednesday they had pinpointed the crucial time in world history when Egypt emerged as a distinct state.
05 September 2013
Tomb find confirms powerful women ruled Peru long ago
The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago.
24 August 2013
Earliest iron artefacts came from meteorite
The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite.
20 August 2013
Climate change seen behind ancient civilizations' fall
A cold, dry spell that lasted hundreds of years may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations in the 13th century BC.
15 August 2013
Dozens of mummies found in pre-Inca royal tomb in Peru
Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.
30 June 2013
Lost medieval city found in Cambodia: report
A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology.
16 June 2013
Beheaded skeleton discovered next to Saka princess's tomb
Kazakhstan archaeologists have discovered a beheaded human skeleton next to the tomb of the “Saka princess”.
06 June 2013
Kazakhstan archaeologists discover Saka princess tomb
A burial site of a high-ranking young woman was discovered during reconstruction of Taskesken-Bakty road in Urdzhar region of East-Kazakhstan oblast.
03 June 2013
Villagers discover ancient ball game statue in Mexico
Villagers installing a water pipe in southwestern Mexico stumbled onto an ancient granite statue depicting a player from a pre-Hispanic ball game.
21 May 2013
Foreign archaeologists tap into Stone Age man site near Almaty
Archaeologists from the U.S., Germany, Japan and Australia arrived to Kazakhstan to study a Stone Age man site in Zhambyl region of Almaty oblast.
20 May 2013
Ancient mysteries revealed in Turkmen desert sands
Over four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe might have been a rare advanced civilisation before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the Kara Kum desert in remote western Turkmenistan.
06 April 2013
Peru archeologists find ancient temple
Peruvian archeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima.
13 February 2013
Mexico archeologists uncover 800-year-old skeletons
Archeologists in central Mexico uncovered the bones of 12 children and adults who may have been buried 800 years ago.
29 December 2012
North Korean 'unicorn' claim lost in translation
An apparent North Korean claim to have uncovered a "unicorn's lair" that created an Internet storm was partly the result of mistranslation by Pyongyang's much-mocked propaganda machine.
06 December 2012
Ancient tombs discovered in Pakistan's Swat
Italian archaeologists say they have discovered a cemetery that reveals complex funeral rites dating back more than 3,000 years in Pakistan's Swat valley, recently controlled by the Taliban.
24 November 2012
Europe's oldest prehistoric town, salt site found in Bulgaria
Archaeologists in eastern Bulgaria say they have unearthed the oldest prehistoric town ever found in Europe, along with an ancient salt production site.
31 October 2012
Bali's 'largest' ancient Hindu temple discovered
Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the Indonesian island.
25 October 2012
Archaeologists found Bronze Age burial near Uralsk
Kazakhstan archaeologists have found a Bronze Age burial near Uralsk city.
19 July 2012
Remains of huge bird of Dinosaurs Age found in Kazakhstan
Remains of a huge bird that lived on Earth in Cretaceous geologic period at Dinosaurs Age were found at the territory of Kazakhstan.
11 August 2011