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Perfectly Preserved Bronze Age Sword Found Beneath an Italian Lake
A perfectly preserved Late Bronze Age sword has been discovered beneath the waters of Lake Mezzano in central Italy, adding a striking new find to one of the region’s most important submerged prehistoric settlements. The weapon was recovered from the lake’s southern shore near Valentano,…
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Giant Stone Spheres Hidden in a Bosnian Forest Defy an Easy Explanation
Deep in the forests around Zavidovići in Bosnia and Herzegovina, enormous stone spheres emerge from stream beds, slopes and layers of earth. Some are almost perfectly rounded, giving them an appearance that can seem more engineered than geological. Around 60 stone spheres have been recorded…
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A 2,100-Year-Old Adrasan Shipwreck Still Holds an Ancient Delivery That Never Arrived
Somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean around 2,100 years ago, merchants loaded thousands of newly made plates, bowls and serving dishes onto a ship and prepared them for a journey that would never reach its destination. The vessel sank off what is now Adrasan, on Türkiye’s…
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A 6,500-Year-Old Fire May Have Preserved Clues to Europe’s Earliest Beer
A fire that destroyed a prehistoric house in Bulgaria around 6,500 years ago may have preserved evidence of one of Europe’s earliest beer-making traditions. Archaeologists working at Provadia-Solnitsata found charred emmer wheat inside a Late Chalcolithic building dating to around 4500 BC. What made the…
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A Huge New Rock Art Panel Emerges at Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site
A survey of the Tanum rock carvings at Trättelanda has revealed 16 previously undocumented carved rock surfaces. The largest contains ships and human figures across an area whose boundaries researchers have yet to establish. Researchers surveying the southern edge of Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site…
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Ancient Grave in Kazakhstan Reveals a Woman With a Mysterious Skull Injury
A woman was buried beside a man and two children in southern Kazakhstan. An injury near her temple has left archaeologists with a question the grave cannot yet answer: was she wounded in a fight, or killed during a burial ceremony? The remains came from…
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Rare Priapus Figurine and Head of Mithras Found at Roman Fortress in Bulgaria
A rare bronze figurine of Priapus and a sculpted head identified as the god Mithras have been found at Novae, a Roman legionary fortress beside the Danube in northern Bulgaria. The discoveries came during an excavation season that also revealed more of a vast building…
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Roman City with an 8,000-Seat Amphitheater Discovered in Austria
Archaeologists have identified a Roman city beneath fields near the Danube in Austria. Its planned streets cover 25 to 30 hectares, and a newly detected amphitheater could have seated around 8,000 spectators—an unexpected find beside a fort built for only about 500 soldiers. The city…
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Roman-Era Pyramid Tomb in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis Reveals a 19-Line Greek Poem
Fourteen steps descend to a stone doorway in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis. Its carvings draw on ancient Egyptian beliefs about protection after death. Deeper inside the newly discovered tomb, archaeologists found a farewell written in another language: a 19-line funerary poem in Greek. An Egyptian team…