11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1078+ words) The inscription identifies her as “sevasta Maria Skulena.” Women’s signet rings from this period are considerably rarer than those associated with men, making the object important not simply as Byzantine jewelry, but as evidence of a woman whose social position…...

2+ day, 19+ 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…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (858+ words) Researchers also continue to debate the precise date of the burial. Earlier studies placed it around 330–310 BCE, while more recent assessments have proposed dates around 350–340 BCE or 330–320 BCE. Treister therefore places the necklace within the rare gold jewelry traditions of…...

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, 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1114+ words) A routine gardening project in northern Denmark has uncovered the largest known Viking Age silver hoard ever found in the country: 18.5 kilograms of silver comprising around 700 objects and fragments. The discovery was made in a private garden near Rebild, where…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (959+ words) A newly discovered Inca road near Machu Picchu may have been built as a ritual route toward a sacred mountain, according to the archaeologist overseeing research at the famous Peruvian site. The route is part of a previously unknown network…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1180+ words) A rare Viking Age burial in western Denmark is preserving something archaeologists almost never get to see: traces of the clothes worn by a young person some 1,300 years ago, still caught between the metal ornaments that once held them in…...

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   (963+ words) A rare 13th-century seal found at Perperikon belonged to one of the Byzantine world’s most powerful women — and carries an unusual image of Christ standing as the “Redeemer.” That context makes its location particularly significant. In the 1230s, Perperikon stood in…...