9+ hour, 54+ 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, 11+ 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…...

2+ day, 17+ 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…...

2+ day, 23+ hour 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…...

3+ day, 12+ 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…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (346+ words) A previously unknown Turkic stone sculpture in Kyrgyzstan has been documented beside a complex of nine ancient stone enclosures near Lake Issyk-Kul, placing the newly recognized monument within an archaeological setting rather than leaving it as an isolated figure in…...

4+ day, 19+ 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…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (537+ words) Thousands of silver coins buried in two birch bark containers have emerged from the ground near Sysmä in southern Finland, forming what archaeologists describe as the largest known Late Iron Age coin hoard ever found in the country. Metal detector…...

5+ day, 19+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (835+ words) Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Pompeiopolis in northern Türkiye have uncovered approximately 105 square meters of remarkably well-preserved floor mosaics, while a second discovery — the marble head of Eros dating back around 1,800 years — is offering a glimpse into a…...