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More than 2,400 years after Carthaginian forces captured the ancient Greek city of Akragas in Sicily, archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown section of the city, including substantial stone walls…
Archaeologists in northern Italy have uncovered the remains of a 1,600-year-old church that may help explain how the ancient Roman city of Altinum gradually gave way to the settlements of…
More than 20 stone artefacts discovered off Australia’s northwest coast are revealing how Aboriginal communities travelled, selected materials and used a landscape that eventually disappeared beneath the sea. One of…
A team searching Norway’s Jotunheimen Mountains has recovered a 1,800-year-old arrow with its bone tip found lying just beside the wooden shaft. The Secrets of the Ice team initially located…
Archaeologists working near a notable Bronze Age royal tomb in Germany have uncovered an enigmatic square structure that might functioned as a temple or site for ceremonial assemblies nearly 2,800…
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An international team of archaeologists has determined new radiocarbon ages for the Migration Period in southern Russia, positioning archaeological data from the Lower Don steppes…
Archaeologists excavating an ancient Inka settlement in southern Peru have found coca leaves still caught in the wool of llamas sacrificed more than 500 years…
Archaeological excavations at Kurul Fortress in Ordu, which dates back approximately 2,300 years, have uncovered new areas associated with the cult of the ancient Greek…
A stone weighing more than 30 kilograms and located 20 meters below the sea surface off Norway’s west coast may be the world’s oldest known…
Archaeologists have uncovered a 300-meter-long section of an ancient aqueduct that delivered water to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount around 2,000 years ago. Constructed during the Hasmonean…
For decades, archaeologists have uncovered the enigmatic details of small, intricate female figurines found at Mizyn, an ancient campsite in northern Ukraine. But one mystery…
A 1,200-year-old Maya inscription from Xultun, Guatemala, has identified a previously unknown mathematician who tracked the movements of Venus and Mars. Researchers analyzing the find…
A major French archival collection holding thousands of historical seals—from the Middle Ages right up to modern times—has finished its full digitization. The collection is…
In Chodlik, in the Lublin region, a boat burial—extremely rare among Early Medieval Slavic communities—has been uncovered. This type of burial, typically found along the…
The coin was minted during the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, better known as Saint Olaf. This remarkable discovery was made during a cataloging project led…
The ancient name of the Thracian city of Perperikon, located near the city of Kırcaali in Bulgaria, has been confirmed. As confirmed in the works…
Archaeologists have discovered a 6,500-year-old female figurine at the Dâmbul Cetății site in Transylvania. The discovery was announced by the National Museum of the Eastern…