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A 2026 LiDAR survey flew more than 4,400 kilometers over Brazil's Acre state and scanned roughly 4,500 square kilometers of rainforest, revealing 396 previously unknown geoglyphs — vast geometric earthworks cut as…
The Archaeological Survey of India revived its Underwater Archaeology Wing and, under Prof. Alok Tripathi, began offshore investigations near Gomati Creek off Dwarka and Bet Dwarka, Gujarat — the city tied in…
New work at Karahan Tepe in southeastern Turkey — part of the Tas Tepeler complex that includes Gobekli Tepe — has uncovered a deliberately engineered stone staircase and monumental anthropomorphic statuary dated…
Excavations in the Tas Tepeler region (Karahan Tepe and neighboring Gobekli Tepe) produced a roughly 7.5-foot painted human statue described as the earliest realistic human depiction, plus a ~12,000-year-old…
At China's Sanxingdui site, archaeologists recovered a roughly 20cm elongated metal object (catalogued K7QW-TIE-1) from Pit No.
The 2025-2026 season at the 11,000-12,000-year-old Taş Tepeler sites produced a painted wild-boar statue (with surviving pigment) from Göbekli Tepe's Enclosure D and a 7-foot-6 human statue plus a vulture statue at…
An underwater mission ran 70 km of multibeam-sonar transects across 3.78 sq km of the Lake Atitlan lakebed and confirmed a submerged Maya settlement, reframing scattered ritual finds as a once-thriving village…
In early 2026 the Archaeological Survey of India announced a new phase of land and offshore exploration at Dwarka, using modern survey technology to probe previously unexamined submerged areas off the coast.
Using muon tomography, ground-penetrating radar and AI anomaly detection, teams pinpointed a ~30-meter passage inside the Great Pyramid ending at a door, with contents undisclosed pending a 2026 announcement Hawass…
New high-resolution 3D laser scanning of Gobekli Tepe indicates its megaliths were arranged with exact geometric proportions, uniform wall thickness and premeditated architectural axes - evidence of sophisticated…
Excavators uncovered a human statue placed horizontally and deliberately entombed between massive structures at Gobekli Tepe, suggesting it served as a guardian or ritual offering built into the temple's fabric.
Fieldwork in 2026 using 3D laser scanning, geophysical survey, and digital modeling exposed hidden carvings and life-size human imagery on Göbekli Tepe's roughly 12,000-year-old pillars, plus evidence of living…
Archaeologists reported roughly thirty previously undocumented prehistoric settlements across south-eastern Anatolia, indicating the people who built Göbekli Tepe were far more locally rooted than assumed.
Researchers using LiDAR data from France's Litto3D coastal-mapping program identified large human-made stone structures in shallow water near Sein Island in Brittany, dated to at least 7,000 years ago.
The ScanPyramids mission, led by Cairo University and France's Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute, used muon radiography (cosmic-ray imaging) to map a roughly 30-meter void deep within the Great Pyramid of…
Subsurface survey under Turkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism -- part of the Heritage for the Future and Tas Tepeler programmes, coordinated by Istanbul University with the German Archaeological Institute and…
Peru's Ministry of Culture announced in April 2026 that a team led by Ruth Shady -- the archaeologist who first identified the Caral civilization in 1994 -- had found a two-level stone structure at the coastal site…
French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen documented in the 1930s-40s that the Dogon of Mali held traditions describing Sirius B - the tiny white-dwarf companion of Sirius, invisible to the naked…
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