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A Roman Temple at Blaundos Was Built Inside a Sacred Space Centuries Older Than Itself
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Blaundos in western Türkiye have uncovered a 250-meter-long enclosure wall that shows the city’s North Temple was built inside a sacred precinct already centuries old. The North Temple dates to roughly 1,900 years ago, but the wall surrounding its temenos has been dated to around 2,500 years ago. The…
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Inside the School Linked to Alexander the Great, Archaeologists Found Rooms Built for Feasting
The school linked to Alexander the Great at ancient Mieza was not devoted to lectures and physical training alone. Archaeologists have also uncovered mosaic-floored rooms where members of Macedonia’s young elite appear to have reclined, dined and talked together. Archaeologists excavating the Royal Gymnasium of Mieza in northern Greece have uncovered a large structure containing…
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Rare 2,200-Year-Old Ring Bearing Portrait of Egyptian Queen Arsinoe III Found in Russia
A rare 2,200-year-old bronze ring found near Anapa, in southern Russia, bears the engraved profile of a woman identified by researchers as Arsinoe III, queen of Ptolemaic Egypt between 220 and 204 BC. The ring was recovered at Voskresenskoye 6, a Hellenistic-period estate group near ancient Gorgippia, in the wider Bosporan world. It was not…
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2,200-Year-Old Greek Military Camp in Uzbekistan Reveals the Far Edge of Alexander’s World
When Alexander the Great’s armies entered Central Asia, they opened a frontier where Greek military power, local communities and new Hellenistic kingdoms remained entangled for generations. A hilltop in southern Uzbekistan may now preserve a rare trace of that world. Archaeologists working at Iskandar Tepa, a site once interpreted as a small rural settlement, say…
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Hellenistic Tombs Unearthed in Bulgaria Reveal Rare Burial Pit and Gilded Bronze Wreath
A stretch of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast has quietly revealed a remarkable chapter of ancient life—and death. Archaeologists working in Nessebar have uncovered a group of Hellenistic tombs dating to the 3rd–2nd centuries B.C., including an unusual stepped burial pit containing a finely crafted gilded bronze wreath. The discovery was made within the necropolis of…
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The Port That Connected Mesopotamia to India: Archaeologists Rediscover Alexandria on the Tigris
A city that once stood at the crossroads of continents has quietly returned to the map of ancient history. Long forgotten beneath shifting rivers, modern borders, and decades of conflict, Alexandria on the Tigris was a major port founded in the age of Alexander the Great, controlling the flow of trade between Mesopotamia, India, and…