2+ hour, 40+ min ago   (583+ words) Archaeologists have found 12 wallaby teeth with resin attached to their roots at Windmill Way, a rock shelter in Queensland, Australia. The unusual finds date to about 1,100 to 1,300 years ago and are the first such tooth ornaments found in a non-burial…...

8+ hour, 35+ min ago   (643+ words) A routine garden project in Rebild has led to the largest known Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Denmark. The hoard contains 18.5 kilograms of silver, almost three times the weight of the previous record holder. The find was made…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (301+ words) Archaeologists studying a Roman planned town near Neuenstadt am Kocher in Germany think the settlement lasted only about two generations. The Roman settlement dates to the 2nd or 3rd century CE. Romans laid out the town as a planned settlement near the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (506+ words) An ancient tomb, a network of burial shafts, and hundreds of funerary objects have been found at Saqqara, Egypt, during the first excavation season in a new area west of the Bubastion necropolis. The Egyptian archaeological mission working in Sector…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (724+ words) Archaeological work in 2026 has changed the dating of two medieval fortifications at Balchug, in modern Galich. Researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences found no evidence for a pre-Mongol fortress at the Lower Hillfort. The…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (521+ words) A Roman law scholar has reconstructed and translated a damaged Latin page found among ancient Egyptian artifacts. The parchment offers rare evidence for a small Roman law book from the fourth century. Matthijs Wibier, an assistant professor of Classics at…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (472+ words) The Batavia, the world’s largest reconstruction of a 17th-century ship, will leave the water this autumn for major preservation work. The 56-meter-long, 650-ton vessel will move from Lelystad to Amsterdam before returning to Museum Batavialand. The ship’s final voyage is…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (492+ words) A team of archaeologists and metal detectorists has begun a new survey of the battlefield where Polish-Lithuanian forces fought the Teutonic Order in 1410. About 40 researchers, detectorists and museum specialists will spend a week searching the fields around Grunwald in Poland’s…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (467+ words) Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a medieval settlement near Halberstadt in central Germany. The site lies beside the Frevelgraben, east of the city, near Gessnerstraße. The Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt began work at the site in March....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (526+ words) Stone from a lost Tudor fortress built by Henry VIII was reused during Victorian work at Dover Castle, new research suggests. Dr Christopher Moore, a Research Fellow at the University of Kent, traced masonry from Sandown Castle to an 1883-84 extension…...