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Under centuries-old rice fields in Japan’s Ichijo Valley, researchers uncovered objects like these samurai swords at the city of Ichijodani, which flourished from 1471 to 1573 when the Asakura clan ruled the Echizen province amid brutal power struggles. archaeology.org/issues/may-jun…

#OTD in 1848, Confederate soldiers surrendered to Federal troops in Galveston Harbor in Texas during the American Civil War. Read about an expedition from the city to find an 18th- or 19th-century shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico. archaeology.org/issues/march-a…

Archaeologists believe they have rediscovered the lost Byzantine city of Tharais in southern Jordan. A trading center along Roman road networks, the mysterious city appears on the 6th-century A.D. Madaba Mosaic Map, the Middle East’s oldest surviving map. archaeology.org/news/2025/05/2…

At the Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina—home to builders of the 19th Dynasty (ca. 1295–1186 B.C.) Valley of the Kings tombs—a discarded pottery piece, or ostracon, suggests goose fat as a salve for a draftsman named Nebre's (pictured) health issues. archaeology.org/issues/may-jun…

At the site of Era de Pando in Peru’s Supe Valley—which was home to the Caral culture, likely the oldest city-building civilization in the Americas, at least 4,000 years ago—archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a “fire altar” near a large pyramid. archaeology.org/news/2025/06/0…

Great Auks became extinct as the last two known specimens were killed by fishermen on Eldey island, Iceland. Read about the excavation of a Great Auk bone, dating from the 5th to 7th centuries, found at a medieval site in Scotland: archaeology.org/issues/septemb…

Just outside the city of Kiryat Gat, researchers unearthed parts of a Roman and Byzantine settlement founded in the 1st century B.C., which flourished for over 600 years as a trade hub and centered around a monastery and its ornate chapel (pictured). archaeology.org/issues/may-jun…

#OTD in 1629, the medieval Dutch merchant ship Batavia struck a reef near the northern end of Australian archipelago. Read about the mutiny and mayhem that commenced on the Houtman Abrolhos islands after it ran aground: archaeology.org/issues/491-221…

In Guatemala’s Petén region, around 13 miles northeast of the famous site of Uaxactún, archaeologists discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Maya city spread across six miles and three sites: Los Abuelos, Petnal, and Cambrayal. Dating to between 800 and 500 B.C.

Using over 100,000 U.S. radiocarbon dates, archaeologists have analyzed a period when data and Native American oral history suggest that farmers began abandoning major settlements in places like Mesa Verde in Colorado (pictured) from A.D. 800 to 1150. archaeology.org/issues/may-jun…

#OTD in 1849, Denmark's absolute monarchy was abolished and democracy was introduced. Read about the archaeology of the Danish monarchy, including runestones dedicated to Queen Thyra, mother to Denmark’s first king Harald Bluetooth. archaeology.org/issues/january…

Within an elaborate 1,400-year-old grave of a high-status individual at the South Korean site of Gyeongju, once the ancient kingdom of Silla’s (ca. A.D. 57–535) capital, archaeologists discovered a gilt-bronze crown decorated with inlaid beetle wings. archaeology.org/news/2025/05/3…

Residue on potsherds recovered from earthen mounds constructed up to 4,000 years ago at the coastal site of Pontal da Barra in Brazil’s Patos Lagoon estuary shows evidence of ancient feasts associated with fish and fermentation of alcoholic beverages. archaeology.org/issues/may-jun…

#OTD in 1944, D-Day, the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy launching one of World War II's most pivotal battles. Read about archaeological efforts to uncover the legacy of the infamous day: archaeology.org/issues/390-200…

Outside of the Swedish city of Stockholm at a site in Viggbyholm, Täby, which contains more than 20 houses and buildings inhabited from around A.D. 400 to 1050, archaeologists unearthed a 1,000-year-old Viking Age treasure trove. archaeology.org/news/2025/06/0…

In Manqabad near the Egyptian city of Assiut, archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 6th- or 7th-century A.D. mudbrick Coptic-period building covered with murals that contained a variety of ceramics. archaeology.org/news/2025/06/0…