It’s perhaps our favorite time of year at Artnet News, when we look back through 12 months of coverage to revisit the best, most exciting stories that have graced our pages. As always, we especially…

While assessing the 100-year-old coffin of the Perth Mummy, Ta-Kr-Hb, for its Conservation in Action: Saving the Perth Mummy installation, the Perth Museum & Art Gallery discovered “painted figures on…

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 VIENNA, AUSTRIA—According to a statement released by the University of Vienna

In 2010, geneticists in Denmark passed a remarkable milestone. Extracting fragments of DNA from 4,000-year-old strands of hair from Greenland that had been stored in a Copenhagen museum for decades,…

The site, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, was at the centre of an incredible breakthrough in 1939 when an Anglo-Saxon burial was uncovered. Archaeologist Basil Brown found two early medieval cemeteries on the…

You don’t have to be Indiana Jones to appreciate a good archaeological enigma.While some of the world’s historical phenomena have cemented themselves in the global consciousness, such as Peru’s Nazca…

There are a large number of ancient mysteries all over the world that, apparently, will never be solved. The reasons for this are many: loss of data and evidence, unfortunate destruction of valuable…

IGMystery discoveriesThe Longyou Grottoes:These man made caves in China date back 212BC. Over 30 caves have been discovered since they were first found in 1992. But there is no record of them being…

The archaeologists have ended their search 75 years after the end of World War II. Between 1942 and 1949 armed groups of Ukrainian Nationalists dubbed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fought Nazi…