4+ day, 11+ 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…...

6+ day, 18+ 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…...

2+ week, 17+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (711+ words) Archaeologists excavating east of Halberstadt in central Germany have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved medieval settlement whose buildings are easier to trace than the people who once lived inside them. Rows of sunken buildings, settlement pits, wells and boundary ditches remain…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (644+ words) A pair of 1,500-year-old “golden shoes” found in the grave of an elite woman in western Kazakhstan is offering a striking glimpse into the wealth, craftsmanship and long-distance connections of communities living along the Caspian Sea during the post-Hunnic period....