Ancient DNA Reveals Ice Age Humans Disproportionately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
Ancient DNA recovered from more than 500 woolly mammoths has revealed an unexpected pattern in the relationship between Ice Age people and one of the…
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Dry Summer Reveals Lost Garden and Medieval Buildings Beneath England’s Lawns
Prolonged hot and dry weather across southern England has revealed the outlines of a lost garden and medieval buildings, as parch marks emerge across the…
Iron Age Britons Used Slag-Tapping Furnaces Before the Roman Conquest
Radiocarbon dates from an iron-production site in Kent suggest that British metalworkers were draining molten slag from their furnaces before the Roman conquest of AD…
Rare Hellenistic Ritual Complex Unearthed in North Macedonia
Archaeologists excavating the ancient settlement of Gradište in North Macedonia have uncovered a Hellenistic ritual complex where offerings, libations and ceremonial feasts may have taken…
Monumental 3,000-Year-Old Tomb in Armenia Reveals Weapons and a Sacrificed Horse
Encircled by massive rings of stone, a Late Bronze Age tomb at Shamiram in western Armenia has yielded bronze weapons, obsidian arrowheads and the remains…
A Tiny Shrine to Minerva Was Carved Into a Roman Quarry in Spain 1,800 Years Ago
A Roman quarry in central Spain has yielded an unusually intimate trace of worship: a tiny rock-cut shrine to Minerva, carved directly into the same…
Offerings Buried With the Llullaillaco Maiden Reveal When the Famous Inca Child Was Sacrificed
Frozen near the summit of a volcano, the Llullaillaco Maiden has looked almost untouched by time for more than 500 years. Now, maize, cassava and…
1,800-Year-Old River God Mosaic Found in Ancient Aspendos
A Roman mosaic uncovered in Aspendos has brought back the image of Eurymedon, the river that once fed the city’s fields, trade, and imagination. Archaeologists…
Ancient Temple Found on Hilltop of a Lost Illyrian City in Northern Albania
Archaeologists working in northern Albania have uncovered the stone foundations of an ancient temple on the hilltop acropolis of Bushat, a site increasingly linked to…