2+ hour 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....

5+ hour, 53+ min 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…...

8+ hour, 26+ min ago   (501+ words) A 1,800-year-old iron shield boss containing cremated human bones has been rescued from a scrap yard in eastern Poland. The rare find points to a destroyed burial linked to the Przeworsk culture and Vandal communities. Museum staff identified the object…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (523+ words) Large ceramic jars used in daily life and burials became more uniform during Japan’s Edo period, according to a new study from the Institute of Science Tokyo. Researchers used shape analysis and machine learning to track changes across 243 Ogame jars…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (533+ words) A 6,500-year-old ritual center near Chleby in the Czech Republic was built more than 1,000 years before Stonehenge, new research shows. The large enclosure appears to have been planned around key movements of the Sun and Moon. Archaeologists from the University…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (547+ words) Archaeologists have found 11 more carved obsidian arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik in Cappadocia, Turkey. The finds raise the site’s total to 12 and add to a regional group of 54 known examples. The arrowheads date to the Neolithic, between the late eighth and seventh…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (514+ words) Bronze Age pottery from a desert oasis in northwestern Arabia shows signs of one of the earliest known brands, according to a new study. Researchers say the vessels had a fixed visual style, a steady method of production, a known…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (568+ words) New pieces of a Roman stone inscription in western Turkey help reconstruct a legal order from CE 480. The text describes a long-running tax scam in Asia Minor and the Roman response. Archaeologists found the fragments in 2024 near ancient Stratonikeia. Researchers…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (543+ words) A Bronze Age barrow became the center of a Roman rural shrine at Red Lodge in Suffolk, where people returned for ritual acts for centuries. Archaeological work recorded use from the Early Bronze Age through the medieval period. The main…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (479+ words) A new study has overturned a long-held idea about when farming reached Ireland. Bone fragments from Ferriter’s Cove, once seen as the earliest signs of domestic cattle, came from a bear and a wild boar. Ferriter’s Cove sits on the…...