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, 13+ hour ago   (1045+ words) The possibility sounds extraordinary. The earliest documented telescope is generally associated with the Netherlands in 1608, when spectacle maker Hans Lippershey sought a patent for an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. Yet the Nimrud Lens was manufactured between about…...

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,…...

1+ week, 13+ 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, 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+ day, 18+ 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…...

6+ day, 12+ 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+ week, 5+ day ago   (561+ words) Archaeologists excavating Karahantepe in southeastern Türkiye have uncovered an approximately 11,000-year-old composite statue depicting a human figure seated on the back of a leopard, adding an unexpected new variation to the site’s already remarkable repertoire of human-animal imagery. Ersoy described…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1048+ words) Archaeologists working at Shahr-i Sokhta, the Bronze Age settlement better known as Iran’s Burnt City, have discovered a new type of 4,600-year-old board game, adding an unexpected chapter to a site already famous for preserving one of the ancient world’s…...

3+ day, 17+ min ago   (734+ words) A 4,000-year-old vessel unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Külhöyük in central Türkiye has produced an unusually delicate discovery: ancient seed remains identified as belonging to Sevgi Çiçeği, an endemic flower that still grows in Ankara’s Gölbaşı district today. Türkiye’s…...