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Bell-Shaped Ritual Pit Reveals Underworld Offerings as an Earthquake Interrupted a Sacred Meal 1,700 Years Ago
2+ day, 21+ 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…...
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Found in Greece Are the Oldest Handheld Examples Known
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (1265+ words) Two pieces of worked wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have been identified as the oldest known handheld wooden tools made by hominins, dating to around 430,000 years ago. One appears to have been used as a digging…...
2,400-Year-Old Etruscan Tomb of the Blue Demons May Have Created a Trance-Like Sensory Experience
1+ week, 15+ 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…...
9,000-Year-Old Mining Workshop Discovered at??ay??n?? with Malachite and Copper Objects
1+ week, 4+ day ago (831+ words) The workshop came to light during the 2026 excavations at Çayönü, near Ergani in Diyarbakır Province. Excavations are being directed by Associate Professor Savaş Sarıaltun of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. According to information released by Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism,…...
3,000-Year-Old Object Found with Bronze Axes Is Being Called a Button??? But Archaeologists Aren???t Sure What It Was
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…...
3,400-Year-Old Monumental Hittite Building at??apinuwa Reveals Clues to Ancient Rituals
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…...
25 Turtle Figurines Unearthed in a Turkish Cave, Some Dating Back 16,500 Years
3+ week, 4+ day ago (533+ words) Archaeologists excavating Gedikkaya Cave in northwestern Türkiye have uncovered around 25 stone turtle figurines from Epipaleolithic contexts dating between approximately 14,500 and 11,200 BCE, adding striking new evidence that prehistoric hunter-gatherers used parts of the cave for ritual or symbolic activities. Prof. Dr....