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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…
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…
Archaeologists at the Kayalıpınar mound in Sivas, Turkey, have unearthed a royal archive that reveals far more than the usual machinery of Hittite power. The…
Archaeologists excavating a cave in northeastern Italy have uncovered a rare antler axe dating to around 8,000 years ago. The piece still shows traces of…
A fragment of a child’s skull bearing signs of sharp-force trauma was placed beneath the floor of an Iron Age house in Denmark, offering a…
