Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Archaeologists studying a medieval burial in the Sayan Mountains have identified a rare elite woman’s grave containing gold-plated earrings, a newborn child, a horse-skin ritual…
A rare Mithras sanctuary in Croatia is challenging one of the most familiar ideas about this Roman mystery cult. At Močići, in the hills above…
Archaeologists in Switzerland have confirmed the remains of a late Roman bridge beneath the Aare River in Solothurn, ending a long-running question about one of…
Researchers studying Sidetic, the ancient language of Side, have expanded the known alphabet from 26 to 31 letters. The advance may seem small, but for…
A rare same-sex medieval burial beside a cathedral wall in southern Poland is forcing archaeologists to rethink one of the oldest assumptions about people buried…
A small grave in southern Uzbekistan has drawn archaeologists into one of the most difficult corners of Bronze Age life: illness, childhood, and the decision…
A 2,800-year-old Urartian royal inscription that had eluded researchers for decades has been relocated on a rock face in Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region, restoring one of…
A small metal object found near Dukla in southeastern Poland has raised a question far larger than its size: how did a possible 3,000-year-old mace…
A fish-shaped Roman glass vessel found in a woman’s grave in northern Poland has become one of the most striking objects from the Czarnówko cemetery,…
