Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago (Published 2021)
A reconstruction of a Viking-age church at Norstead, Newfoundland, near the L’Anse aux Meadows, site of a settlement of Vikings who were present in 1021.Credit...Glenn Nagel Photography Six decades ago, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement on the windswept northern tip of Newfoundland. The site’s eight timber-framed structures resemble Viking buildings i
From the Seabed, Figures of an Ancient Cult (Published 2020)
Three 2,500-year-old Phoenician figurines recovered from the Mediterranean. The leftmost and center figurines carry a symbol associated with Tanit, a mother goddess of the Phoenician pantheon.Credit...Jonathan J. Gottlieb In 1972, in one of the early finds of marine archaeology, researchers discovered a trove of clay figurines on the seabed off the coast of Israel. The figurines — hundreds of them
This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones (Published 2020)
Ice Age hunter-gatherers, foraging the bone-chilling, unforgiving steppes of what today is Russia, somehow completed a remarkable construction project: a 40-foot-wide, circular structure made from the skulls, skeletons and tusks of more than 60 woolly mammoths. The reason remains a mystery to archaeologists. “The sheer number of bones that our Paleolithic ancestors had sourced from somewhere and b
A Close-Up on Mysteries Made of Stone in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - The New York Times
A group of 19 "keyholes" at Al Wadi, in the Saudi Arabian desert, observed by archaeologist David Kennedy from a helicopter. Dr. Kennedy took more than 6,000 aerial photographs of these mysterious, ancient structures.Credit...David Kennedy For nearly a decade, David Kennedy marveled from behind his computer screen at thousands of mysterious stone structures scattered across Saudi Arabia’s desert.
‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found (Published 2016)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html An image of the well-preserved medieval ship found at the bottom of the Black Sea, one of more than 40 wrecks discovered. Photogrammetry, a process using thousands of photographs and readings, produced a rendering that appears three-dimensional.Credit...Expedition and Education Foundation/Black Sea MAP
Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets (Published 2015)
Discoveries in the past decade have revealed more about the people for whom Stonehenge and nearby monuments held great meaning.Credit...Adam Stanford/Aerial-Cam AMESBURY, England — About 6,300 years ago, a tree here toppled over. For the ancients in this part of southern England, it created a prime real estate opportunity — next to a spring and near attractive hunting grounds. According to David J
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Mythical Beings May Be Earliest Imaginative Cave Art by Humans (Published 2019)
Millions of Ibises Were Mummified. But Where Did Ancient Egypt Get Them? (Published 2019)
Prehistoric Parents Used Baby Bottles Made of Pottery (Published 2019)
An Archaeological Puzzle on the Danube (Published 2019)
Ancient Burial Pits Reveal Sophisticated Rituals (Published 2018)
Rock Carvings of Ancient Dogs Getting Taught New Tricks - The New York Times
Hints of Trigonometry on a 3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet - The New York Times
Long Before Making Enigmatic Earthworks, People Reshaped Brazil’s Rain Forest (Published 2017)