3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (332+ words) A small but striking object has emerged from the soil at Roman Vindolanda, the celebrated frontier fort just south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Archaeologists working at the site have uncovered a copper-alloy scabbard chape decorated with enamel, found…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (470+ words) A fishing net dropped into the deep waters of the Aegean came back carrying something no crew could have expected: a nearly two-meter-tall bronze woman that had been lying on the seabed for more than two thousand years. The discovery…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (834+ words) A previously unknown Khirbet Qabla church uncovered in northern Jordan has revealed an unexpected earlier life: before becoming a Christian place of worship, the building had been used as an olive press. A small church uncovered at Khirbet Qabla in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1229+ words) A copper-alloy object barely 2.4 centimeters across has made a small Late Bronze Age hoard from eastern England unusually difficult to interpret. Found beside two socketed axes near Barton Turf in Norfolk, the roughly 3,000-year-old object has been classified as a…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (427+ words) A curved wooden weapon discovered at an Iron Age settlement on the coast of Normandy is offering an unusual glimpse into hunting and ritual life in ancient Europe. Dating to around 120–80 BC, the object closely resembles what we would now…...