archaeology

Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912

While excavating an ancient Egyptian cemetery, archaeologists made a rare discovery: an ovarian tumor nestled in the pelvis of a woman who died more than three millennia ago. The tumor, a bony mass with two teeth, is the oldest known example of a teratoma, a rare type of tumor that typically occurs in ovaries or testicles....

In 1908, a group of Catholic priests discovered what looked like the skeletal remains of a man buried inside a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a commune in south-central France. The nearly complete skeleton lacked several teeth, earning him the nickname the “old man.”...

The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game. This is the finding of a new study conducted at TraceoLab at the University of Liège....

Hundreds of teeth unearthed at an Invercargill building site have offered researchers a glimpse of life in Victorian-era New Zealand....

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the remains of a massive hall that was likely used by royalty roughly 3,000 years ago....

A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe, occurring over 1,000 years before the previous earliest known larger-scale conflict in the region....

A statue of the goddess Aphrodite was uncovered during excavations carried out in the Ancient Greek city of Amastris in today’s Turkey.

Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.