Archaeology

Articles about ancient cultures, excavations and material remains.

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Phaistos disc

Phoenician alphabet

Pinax

Pinax (pinakes): Ancient Greek and Roman tablets and plaques

Proto-Sinaitic script

Puerto Escondido

Puerto Escondido (Honduras) — Archaeological site on the Ulúa River

Purbeck marble

Ring of Brodgar

Ring of Brodgar: Neolithic stone circle and ritual landscape in Orkney

Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin

Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin (Levantine art)

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone: Bilingual Hellenistic decree that enabled Egyptian hieroglyph decipherment

Ruins

Runes

Runestone

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan

Santana Formation

Saqqara

Saqqara: Ancient Egyptian Necropolis and the Step Pyramid Complex

Saqqara Tablet

Saqqara Tablet (Saqqara King List)

Saurexallopus

Scalping

Scalping: removal of the scalp as trophy, bounty practice, and historical phenomenon

Serekh

Serekh: royal name device and palace façade symbol in ancient Egypt

Shipwreck

Sigillography

Sigillography: the study of seals and their use in historical documents

Skara Brae

Skara Brae — Neolithic settlement on Mainland, Orkney

Soanian

Soanian: Lower Paleolithic stone tool tradition of the Soan Valley

South Saqqara Stone

Spear-thrower

Spear-thrower (atlatl, woomera): a leverage weapon and its history

Spiro Mounds

Stone Age

Stone Age: the prehistoric era of stone tools, art and early farming

Stone tool

Stone tools: origins, types, and archaeological importance

Suseok

Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo: Anglo-Saxon Burial Site and Ship Burial near Woodbridge

Talgai

Taxila

Taxila: Ancient Gandharan City and Archaeological Complex

Tayasal

Tel Megiddo

Tel Megiddo

Tel Megiddo: archaeological mound, history, and religious significance

Tel Megiddo (Megiddo) is a layered archaeological mound in northern Israel notable for its long occupation, important Bronze and Iron Age remains, and its role in Biblical and hist

Terracotta Army

The Museum of Philistine Culture

Thetford Hoard

Thetford Hoard: late Roman Romano-British treasure from Norfolk

Tikal

Tiryns

Tōhoku History Museum

Tōhoku History Museum (Tagajō, Miyagi Prefecture)

Tollund Man

Tollund Man: Iron Age bog body from Denmark

Tomb

Tombs: Forms, Cultural Significance, and Archaeological Preservation

Tomb of Benei Hezir

True Cross

True Cross — relics and tradition of the cross on which Jesus was crucified

Tumulus

Type site

Uluburun

Uluburun Shipwreck (Late Bronze Age trading vessel)

Upper Palaeolithic

Upper Palaeolithic (Late Stone Age)