Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Archaeologists investigating Rusokastro Fortress in southeastern Bulgaria have uncovered two previously unknown defensive towers and 18 iron projectile points concentrated beside the medieval walls. Several…
A heap of broken stone at Hyllestad in western Norway concealed more than ordinary quarry waste. Buried among the debris were fragments of seven medieval…
The Sabu Disk was carved in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago, yet its original purpose remains unknown. With its broad circular body, three curved…
Archaeologists excavating Bay-Balyk in Mongolia have uncovered new details of the defenses that protected one of the principal cities of the Uyghur Khaganate more than…
Ancient Maya families in the northern Yucatán Peninsula may have positioned their homes to take advantage of natural slopes, allowing rainfall to flow toward open…
Roman builders at Sardis once laid a monumental marble statue face down beneath a colonnaded street. Centuries later, that act of reuse helped preserve the…
Radiocarbon dates from an iron-production site in Kent suggest that British metalworkers were draining molten slag from their furnaces before the Roman conquest of AD…
Carrarzu Iddia was already known as one of central Sardinia’s unusually dense archaeological landscapes. Two early nuraghi, traces of a settlement, a sacred well and…
Two children and two teenage girls were laid together in a shallow grave beneath the floor of Uvdal Stave Church in Norway. Their faces, hands…
