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2,800-year-old bone flute and Early Bronze Age idol uncovered at Troy

First Hellenistic mosaic floor in 78 years of excavations discovered at Kültepe-Kanesh

2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

Ice Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years

Roman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu

Devil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row

4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta

80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads

University of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis

Neolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani

Dahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons

Nature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia

Pine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck

About 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik

Theban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump

2,800-year-old bone flute and Early Bronze Age idol uncovered at Troy

First Hellenistic mosaic floor in 78 years of excavations discovered at Kültepe-Kanesh

2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

Ice Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years

Roman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu

Devil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row

4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta

80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads

University of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis

Neolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani

Dahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons

Nature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia

Pine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck

About 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik

Theban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump

2,800-year-old bone flute and Early Bronze Age idol uncovered at Troy

First Hellenistic mosaic floor in 78 years of excavations discovered at Kültepe-KaneshAll news

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800 BCE – 570 CE · 1 sites

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Stone abutments and spillways of the ancient Great Dam of Marib, Yemen

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Oldest Monument in Asia

Great Dam of Marib

800 BCE – 570 CE

The monumental earthen and stone dam that irrigated the oasis of Marib, capital of the Sabaean kingdom in ancient Yemen — one of the largest hydraulic works of the ancient Near East, sustaining intensive agriculture for more than a millennium before catastrophic breaches in late antiquity.

Iron AgeClassicalLate Antique