21+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1083+ words) In the heart of Tallinn, Estonia, an ordinary office construction project was expected to add another modern building to the city. Instead, it uncovered the 14th-century Lootsi cog, one of Europe's best-preserved medieval ships, preserving an unusually complete record of…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (411+ words) Dyrholm was occupied repeatedly over a long period, from the late Mesolithic Erteb'lle Culture, roughly 5400 to 3950 BCE, into the early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture, around 3950 to 3400 BCE. That makes the site especially important because it covers the centuries around one…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (907+ words) Roman businessmen in Teos may have played a far greater role in the city's economic life than previously known, according to a new study of two inscriptions discovered in the ancient Ionian city on T'rkiye's Aegean coast. The inscriptions, unearthed…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (357+ words) A rare intact Roman grave in Vinkovci has turned a modern market reconstruction project in eastern Croatia into a direct encounter with the ancient city of Cibalae, one of the most important Roman centers in southern Pannonia. Vuli" emphasized that…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (639+ words) Stories of secret tunnels beneath Bloxham were once the kind of village folklore passed from one generation to the next. Now, after decades of rumours, a group of local residents has found evidence that the tales were not simply imagination....

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (708+ words) Loch Bhorgastail crannog, a prehistoric human-made island in the Outer Hebrides, has revealed a hidden timber platform more than 5, 000 years old, offering new evidence that some of Scotland's artificial islands began life far earlier than archaeologists once believed. The site,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (829+ words) A 1, 500-year-old gold sword-scabbard fitting found by a local walker beneath a storm-felled tree in Sandnes, Norway, is offering archaeologists a rare glimpse into a powerful warrior elite that ruled the region during the Migration Period. At first, he did…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (742+ words) A woman buried near the Danube with a thin gold diadem around her skull has become one of the clearest clues to a wider Bronze Age network linking present-day Serbia, the Carpathian Basin, and the Central Balkans. The most visually…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (921+ words) Archaeologists working at Seyit'mer H'y'k (Seyit'mer Mound) in western T'rkiye have identified a rare group of carbonized wooden remains that may represent actual Middle Bronze Age wooden doors, offering an unusual glimpse into how people entered, secured, and organized their…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (720+ words) The discovery of Tyrian purple textiles in Roman infant burials in York is offering a rare and deeply human glimpse into grief, status, and luxury at the northern edge of the Roman Empire. Researchers from the University of York have…...