July 18, 2026
Researchers have uncovered a 9th century copy of the oldest known poem written in old English here.
Archaeologists working at Walīla, the medieval city built on the site of ancient Volubilis in Morocco, have identified a carved stone game board inside a public bathhouse dating to the early Islamic period. The find offers rare evidence of leisure activities in North Africa between the late eighth and tenth centuries CE.
In Medieval times, life shifted from the fields to cities where urban populations grew. These ten cities soon became the largest in the world.
Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a previously unknown site in South Sinai that preserves thousands of years of human activity, including ancient rock art, ancient inscriptions, stone tools, and traces of repeated habitation.
