ARTnews has compiled a list of the most talked-about archaeological discoveries of 2025:

Beneath the Palace of Westminster, flint tools of the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, about 6,000 years old, have been found, together with artefacts dating from the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages

In Shaanxi Province in China, a network of 573 ancient stone fortifications has been found, the earliest of which date from around 2800 BC

In Pompeii, a ceramic vessel from Alexandria, about 2,000 years old, has been found. The discovery testifies to the close cultural and trading ties between the Roman Empire and Egypt

With the help of artificial intelligence and radiocarbon analysis, it has been established that many of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written earlier than is generally believed. Some texts, including a fragment of the Book of Daniel, may have been written in the time of the biblical authors themselves, and not by scribes of a later period

Meanwhile, the tomb of Tutankhamun is suffering from climate change, earthquakes and floods. Scholars have proposed measures to stabilise the microclimate and reinforce the structure

The full list can be consulted at this link