What Were Vietnam’s 2,000-Year-Old Boats Carrying? Seeds Offer Clues
Thousands of seeds, fruit stones, and other plant remains have been recovered from two ancient wooden hulls in northern Vietnam. Some of the plants are…
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A 6,500-Year-Old Fire May Have Preserved Clues to Europe’s Earliest Beer
A fire that destroyed a prehistoric house in Bulgaria around 6,500 years ago may have preserved evidence of one of Europe’s earliest beer-making traditions. Archaeologists…
Seeds of Ankara’s Endangered Flower Found in 4,000-Year-Old Hittite Vessel
Seeds linked to Ankara’s endangered Sevgi Flower have been found inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite vessel at Külhöyük in central Türkiye. The discovery places a plant…
New AI Identifies 7,000-Year-Old Seeds to Reconstruct Ancient Farming
A new AI system designed to identify ancient plant remains is giving archaeologists a faster way to study charred seeds that preserve evidence of what…
Unusual Gallic Burial in France Reveals Two Entwined Skeletons Inside a Silo
Archaeologists in eastern France have uncovered an unusual Gallic-period burial that raises new questions about how some rural communities treated the dead more than 2,400…
2,500-Year-Old Dardanos Tumulus in Çanakkale Is Being Reexamined by International Research Team
The 2,500-year-old Dardanos Tumulus, discovered during construction work at a cement factory in Çanakkale in 1959, is once again under detailed examination by a multidisciplinary…
Archaeologists Uncover 4,800-Year-Old Bronze Age Tombs in Başur Höyük, Türkiye, Where Teenage Girls Were Ritually Sacrificed
As the first civilizations began to emerge in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, significant transformations in social structure, economy, and culture took place. Among the most revealing…
Seeds Discovered in the Toilet Channel of an 1800-Year-Old Roman Villa Under Investigation
Excavations at the ancient city of Pompeipolis, often referred to as the “Ephesus of the Black Sea,” have uncovered intriguing seeds in the toilet channel…