Early Saka Burial Mounds Unearthed Near Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul
Early Saka burial mounds discovered near Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan are offering new clues to the region’s ancient nomadic past, after a rescue excavation near…
Zack Rafiel
Forgotten Whale Bones Reveal First Evidence of Baleen Whales in Iron Age Scania
A few worn whale bones, stored for decades in a university museum, have revealed an unexpected link between Iron Age communities in southern Sweden and…
Babies in Roman York Were Buried in Imperial Purple Cloth Once Reserved for Emperors
A trace of purple, almost invisible to the eye, has opened an unusually intimate window into grief, wealth and childhood in Roman Britain. New research…
Dog Walker Spots Green Glint in Forest Roots, Finds 3,400-Year-Old Bronze Age Axe Head
A Bronze Age axe head hidden for more than three millennia has been discovered in England’s Forest of Dean after a dog walker noticed an…
More Than 3,000 Coins Reveal Norway’s Largest Viking Age Silver Hoard
The first signal revealed only a handful of silver coins. Then the field near Rena kept answering. What began on April 10 as a metal…
Ashurbanipal Stele Found at Nineveh’s Shamash Gate, Where Two Catastrophes Struck 2,600 Years Apart
At Nineveh’s Shamash Gate, archaeologists have uncovered an unusually powerful record of destruction: the fall of the Assyrian capital in 612 BC and the scars…
Dozens of Medieval Cannonballs Found Beneath Future Civic Building in Belgium
Dozens of medieval cannonballs have been discovered beneath the site of a future Administrative Centre in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, revealing how one modern construction plot preserved…
The Ruins of Ancient Ptolemais in Libya Became a Playground Centuries Later
Archaeologist Zofia Kowarska has documented more than 100 game boards carved into the stones of Ptolemais, revealing how the abandoned Greek city was reused by…
A 3,500-Year-Old Gold Jewelry Set Found on Aegina May Help Unlock a Bronze Age Mystery
That is the case at Kolona on the Greek island of Aegina, where archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional set of Middle Bronze Age gold ornaments…