A sword and its scabbard were found within a tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period (770 to 476 B.C.) in eastern China’s Jiangxi Province. “It is reckoned as the oldest ever excavated in the country,” said archaeologist Xu Changqing. Iraqi archaeologists are excavating three sites in southern Iraq, and have sent some 700 artifacts […]

A 6,000-year-old engraved megalith uncovered at Lismullin, in Ireland’s County Meath, was moved from the path of the M3 highway. The stone had been reused as building material during the medieval period in an underground, defensive structure. Lismullin was listed as one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s top ten discoveries of 2007, as noted at the end of […]