3,200-Year-Old Cremation Cemetery in Italy Reveals an Adriatic Bronze Age Community
Beneath the sand of Torre Guaceto, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, archaeologists are uncovering a cemetery where the dead were burned, gathered into ceramic urns, and…
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Why Was a Rare Bronze Age Sword Left in the Meuse River 3,000 Years Ago?
More than 3,000 years after a rare weapon entered the Meuse near Buggenum in the Netherlands, archaeologists still cannot answer that question with certainty. What…
An Animal-Figured Seal at Büklükale May Belong to an Early Hittite Tradition
A handled stamp seal with two animal figures has been found at Büklükale, the multi-layered archaeological site near the Kızılırmak River in central Türkiye. The…
A 1,700-Year-Old Roman Board Game from Vindolanda Is Playable Again Thanks to 3D Printing
A 1,700-year-old Roman board game excavated at Vindolanda, one of the most important archaeological sites on Hadrian’s Wall, has been made playable again through 3D…
4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Letters from Anatolia Read Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes
Nearly 4,000 years ago, cuneiform letters sent through the Old Assyrian trade network in Anatolia were written on small clay tablets, wrapped in thin clay…
A ‘Bearskin’ in Museum Storage Turns Out to Be Sweden’s Oldest Known Shoe
Leather fragments kept for decades in a Swedish museum under the label “bearskin” have been reidentified as something far rarer: the oldest known shoe remains…
Ancient Human DNA Found on Cave Walls for the First Time
A cave wall is not usually treated like a genetic archive. In Spain and Portugal, however, researchers have recovered ancient human DNA from the surface…
A Cross Sealed a Mithras Temple in Türkiye 1,700 Years Ago
At Zerzevan Castle in Diyarbakır, researchers say a newly deciphered inscription at the entrance of an underground Mithras temple shows that the sanctuary was sealed…
A 3,000-Year-Old Zhou Domain Emerges in China with Thousands of Tombs and Chariot Pits
A vast Western Zhou site in China’s Shaanxi Province is beginning to look less like an isolated cemetery and more like a lost noble domain…