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6,500-Year-Old Czech Sanctuary Tracked the Sun and Moon 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge
More than 6,500 years ago, prehistoric communities in what is now the Czech Republic created a vast circular sanctuary whose entrances appear to have been deliberately arranged around important movements of the Sun and Moon. Archaeologists led by the University of West Bohemia say the monument near Chleby in Central Bohemia is one of the…
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Bronze Age Spearhead Mould Identified in Czech Village Garden
A stone that once lay unnoticed in a village garden in South Moravia has now been identified as a 3,000-year-old casting mould for bronze spearheads — a discovery that sheds fresh light on Bronze Age metallurgy and long-distance connections in Central Europe. The object was first spotted in 2007 in the village of Morkůvky, when…
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A Lost Medieval Madonna Emerges from a Czech Cottage and Returns to Life in Prague
The story began not in a museum storeroom or a church attic, but in the quiet interior of a countryside cottage in northwestern Bohemia. When the current homeowners stumbled upon an unfamiliar wooden statue in 2022, they assumed it was a simple old carving left behind by previous occupants. Instead, they had unknowingly uncovered a…
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Village Emerges Beneath a Czech Construction Site
Archaeologists from the East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice have unearthed the remains of a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village during a rescue excavation in the town of Dašice, ahead of a planned construction project. What began as a routine preventive investigation quickly turned into one of the region’s most instructive glimpses into everyday prehistoric life. A…