2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (842+ words) Researchers recovered 141 late Roman gold solidi from the site known as Um Rank at Holzthum, in the commune of Parc Hosingen. The coins span the turbulent final decades of the fourth century, but their geographical origins suggest that at least…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (543+ words) Archaeologists excavating the ancient Bosporan settlement of Artezian have uncovered a remarkable ritual landscape where offerings were deliberately lowered into the earth, vessels were turned upside down for chthonic deities, and a powerful earthquake appears to have interrupted food preparation…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (778+ words) They entered the muddy moat looking for the kind of treasure that belonged in a film script. Instead, beneath layers of dark silt at a historic palace in Poland, the searchers encountered something very real: a 19th-century cavalry cuirass that…...

6+ day, 3+ 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, 19+ hour ago   (565+ words) Demons at Tarquinia may have encountered far more than painted walls and a burial chamber. New research suggests that prolonged echoes, low-frequency sound, darkness and the tomb’s unsettling supernatural imagery could have combined to create an intensely disorienting, even trance-like…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (768+ words) Archaeologists investigating a remarkably preserved 2,400-year-old Celtic structure in Aschaffenburg, Germany, now believe the massive timber-and-stone construction may have protected an important route from the Main River to an Iron Age settlement. Workers unexpectedly encountered the ancient timbers in March…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (748+ words) A scientific paper that claimed satellite radar data could reveal previously unknown structures inside the Great Pyramid of Giza has been formally retracted, four years after its publication. But the decision does not overturn some of the pyramid’s most important…...

2+ week, 1+ 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, 5+ 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (759+ words) Archaeologists excavating a monumental 3,400-year-old Hittite building at Šapinuwa in central Türkiye have uncovered animal remains that may offer new evidence of ancient ritual practices. Archaeologists excavating the ancient Hittite city of Šapinuwa in central Türkiye have uncovered unusual animal…...