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Explore decades of exciting archaeological discoveries, new technologies in the field, and stunning images in the A rchaeology magazine archive. Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea. The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck.
In the Gulf of Mexico, archaeologists believe they have identified a nineteenth-century whaling ship crewed by a diverse group of New Englanders. The Namib Sand Sea, home to foot-tall sand dunes, receives so little rainfall that it is almost uninhabitable. Scholars believed it had been this way for millions of yearsโbut this turns out not to be the case.
New research at a site called Narabeb identified layers of mud beneath the sand that were deposited by an ancient freshwater lake. Fragments of stone tools found nearby suggest that early humans visited Narabeb occasionally between , and 20, years ago. Excavations outside the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome revealed walls of a papal palace dating to the 9th century a.
The sprawling complex was founded in the 4th century a. It was expanded and remodeled over the following centuries. The Lateran palace was the home of the papacy until the 14th century, when it briefly moved to Avignon, France, before relocating to the Vatican, where it remains today. Between a. Off a causeway connected to the temple, archaeologists recently discovered a panel including Mayan glyphs carved into the rock floor of a sacred pool. These glyphs describe the founding of a town called Keh Witz Nal on May 12, a.
