EditorialBattle of Issos between Alexander the Great and Darius III . Detail: Darius III in his chariot. 1st century B.C.. Mosaic from the House of the Faun at Pompei. Naples, National Archaeological Museum. DARIO III.
EditorialSeamus Caulfield, a retired archaeology professor, cuts peat using a traditional angled spade called a sleán, on his family’s land in Belderrig, Ireland, June 22, 2022. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)
EditorialMajmuna Tombstone. Marble slab from a 12th-century tomb. It was the grave of a girl called Majmuna, who died on 21 March 1174. Inscription in Arabic kufic script. On the back there are fragments of sculpted decoration from the Roman period, indicating ...
EditorialClay vessel. Deep pot (3150-2500 BC). Xaghra Stone Circle. Neolithic. Xaghra, Gozo Island, Malta. Gozo Museum of Archaeology. Cittadela of Victoria in Gozo. Malta.
EditorialRoger Michel, executive director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology in Banbury, England, in June 2022. (Francesca Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo from the Far Western Anthropological Research Group, a tour of schoolchildren learning about Sii Tuupenatak’s archaeology in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017. (Far Western Anthropological Research Group via The New York Times)
EditorialStele with Liyanite dedication to the God Dhu Ghabat. 5th-2nd century BC. Red sandstone; 86x37x30cm al-'Ula. Departament of Archaeology Museum, King Saud University, Riyadh. Saudi Arabia. Pre-Islam.
EditorialEtruscan art. Urn of unknown origin, depicting the struggle between Eteocles and Polynices, sons of Oedipus, for the throne of Thebes. 4th-3th centuries B.C. Detail. Archaeology Museum of Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain.
EditorialMarble oscillum of the 1st century A.D. It used to be suspended as an ornament from the architrave between two columns. Provenance unknown. The front shows a relief profile of a kind of mask used by male actors during recitals of tragic drama. The mask...
EditorialRoman Villa of Ramla. Located in the western sector of Ramla Bay, in Xaghra (Gozo Island, Malta). Archaeological site excavated between 1910 and 1911 by Professor Temi Zammit. It consisted of nineteen rooms, six of which seemed to form a separate group...
EditorialSilver medallion and faience 'eye' beads. From Punic rock-cut tombs in the limits of Rabat (Victoria), Gozo, Malta. Gozo Museum of Archaeology. Cittadella de Victoria. Gozo. Malta.
EditorialRoman imperial period. Pedestal belonging to a headless white marble statue. Probably representing an Augusta (title given to members of the imperial family). Julio-Claudian epoch. Unknown provenance. 1st century AD. Inscription detail: "To Ceres Iulia...
EditorialOtzi, the 5,300-year-old man discovered in the Alps in 1991, in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, March 11, 2017. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialOtzi, the 5,300-year-old man discovered in the Alps in 1991, in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, March 11, 2017. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialPius Tyszkiewicz (1756-1858). Count, military, member of the Vilnius Archaeology Commission. By Jan Rustem (1762-1835). Vilnius Picture Gallery. Lithuania.
EditorialBrooch of bone from Santa Maria de Hito, Valderredible, Cantabria, Spain. The decoration of the plate is based on the representation of peacocks, partridges and plant an geometrical patterns.10th century. Influence islamic art. Visigoth era. Museum of ...
EditorialLukasz Szczepanski, the head of archaeology at a regional history museum who called the discovery of the medieval French coins “an exceedingly rare and surprising find,” in Ostroda, Poland, June 28, 2021. (Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times)
EditorialA gazelle is depicted in an ancient Roman mosaic at the Hatay Archaeology Museum in Hatay, Turkey, on Feb. 2, 2021. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)