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Archaeologists hail the burial, untouched for 3,500 years, as the biggest discovery on mainland Greece in decades.
The text message from the trench supervisor to archaeologists Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker was succinct: “Better come. Hit bronze.”
The excavators exploring a small stone shaft on a rocky promontory in southern Greece had found an unusual tomb of an ancient warrior. The burial may hold important clues to the origin of Greek civilization some 3,500 years ago....

Palmyra, Nimrud, the Bamiyan Buddhas – the list of antiquities felled in recent years goes on. But at one site in Afghanistan, insurgents aren’t the greatest threat, finds Andrew Lawler
THE rocket attack began around 10 pm, after the western sky behind the rugged mountains of Afghanistan’s Logar province had faded to black. In the remote camp, a 90-minute drive south-east of Kabul, explosions and gunfire startled archaeologists out...

In a remote corner of Saudi Arabia, a team has been excavating the remains of the ancient oasis of Tayma
At the site of Tayma, excavators work at an area outside what is thought to have been the settlement’s temple. A deep well now covered in wood (far right), may have been connected to it in antiquity....

Artifacts suggest some members of ill-fated English settlement survived and assimilated with Native Americans.
European artifacts, including (clockwise from top left) pieces of a slate writing tablet, clay tobacco pipes, a stoneware vessel, and a German token could help pinpoint where colonists retreated after abandoning Roanoke Island, North Carolina. PHOTOGRAPH...