A team of archaeologists excavating at the site of Amenhotep III’s enormous funerary temple in Luxor have uncovered the 3,000-year-old head of a massive statue of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh, the king of Egyptian kings, whom DNA testing has recently proven was Tutankhamun’s grandfather.

New research has found that the sea level of the Mediterranean has been rising and falling over the past 2,500 years.

Remains of a prehistoric building, the earliest ever discovered in the Tel Aviv region of Israel are estimated to be between 7,800 and 8,400 years old.

The discovery of the temple of the god Hadad in Aleppo Citadel is considered one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the late 20th century, according to an article published by Prof. Paolo Matthiae of Italy.

(AFP) – Iraqi archaeologists said on Friday they have discovered a 2,000-year-old Sumerian settlement in southern Iraq, yielding a bounty of historical artefacts.
The site, in the southern province of Dhi Qar, is in the desert near ancient Ur, the biblical birthplace of Abraham.
“There are walls and cornerstones carrying Sumerian writings, dating back to the era of the third Sumerian dynasty,” said Abdul Amir al-Hamdani, head of the provincial government’s archaeology department.
Hamdani said the artefacts, which included sickles and knives, largely dated back to around 2000 BC, during the rule of …

Tucked away in a quiet part of Sharjah lies evidence of the Gulf region’s own ancient history. The region’s Iron Age is now believed to have occurred in three phases or periods of occupation, between 1300 BC and 300 BC.

Cemeteries, public baths and archaeological discoveries were discovered in Daraa city (Southern Syria), all of which were documented in order to trace the actual era and the successive civilizations of this area.
Head of Bosra’s Antiquities Department, Wafa al-Audi said that an ancient tomb was unearthed in a house for a citizen in Daraa dating back to Byzantine Era where three copper bracelets, an iron one in addition to some shards.
Other four tombs with basaltic ground and a stone gate were also found at the same site.
Surveys made by a French …

Archaeologists in Egypt made a stunning discovery recently: two of the largest tombs ever found in Saqqara, the ancient burial ground near Memphis where the country once buried its rulers.
According to French news agency AFP, one of two tombs found consists of a vast chamber that branches off into many alcoves, one containing skeletons and pottery, another containing a 23-foot deep well.
“This is the largest tomb in Saqqara,” Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and the head of the mission, told the AFP. “It took me two …

“A tidy house, a tidy mind.” Some of the more slovenly among us might bristle at this scolding old proverb, but to human evolution researchers it makes perfect sense. One of the hallmarks of modern behavior is the sophisticated way Homo sapiens organizes the spaces it lives in, with everything in its place. But new work at a nearly 800,000-year-old hominin site in Israel suggests that the roots of tidiness may lie deep in our evolutionary past.
Prehistoric humans did not start building permanent dwellings until about 15,000 years ago, but earlier …

Just four days ahead of Christmas, when billions of people the world-over will be celebrating the birth of Nazareth-resident Jesus Christ, Israeli archaeologists have announced their discovery of a Jesus-era house.
The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the find “sheds light on the way of life at the time of Jesus” in the Jewish settlement of Nazareth, where Christians believe Jesus grew up.
The find marks the first time researchers have uncovered the remains of a home in Nazareth from that time period, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said in a statement.
“The building that …