Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Archaeologists near Kojetín in the Czech Republic have discovered a hoard of bronze tools that were used, deliberately damaged and then deposited in a wetland…
A Hittite scribe working more than 3,000 years ago copied a ritual that included words from a language other than Hittite. Those few lines remain…
Greek underwater archaeologists have documented the remains of an ancient merchant ship carrying as many as 650 transport amphorae off the island of Andros. The…
Archaeologists in Veliky Novgorod have discovered half of a rare silver coin issued by Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich, one of the rulers most closely associated with…
Archaeologists excavating a Roman cemetery beneath the future Ljubljana Passenger Centre in Slovenia have uncovered an unusually elaborate ceramic oil lamp whose tall handle ends…
A small Roman object discovered near Cheltenham combined personal grooming with supernatural protection. One end was designed to clean beneath the fingernails; the other was…
When researchers opened the tomb of Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1973, they entered a burial chamber that had remained sealed for almost 500…
The Phaistos Disc, discovered on the Greek island of Crete more than a century ago, continues to resist every attempt to decipher its mysterious symbols.…
Archaeologists excavating the Königspfalz Salz site in Bavaria have identified a 4.5-metre-deep cistern within the remains of an early medieval building containing at least three…
