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Elite Iron Age Graves Near Chelmsford Yield Wine Amphorae and Rare Imported Glass
Archaeologists near Chelmsford in Essex have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery containing the cremated remains of more than 100 people, including five individuals buried with imported wine vessels metal objects and one of the earliest glass bowls known in Britain. Most of the cemetery dates to the first century AD, when communities in southeastern Britain…
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New Burials Added to Europe’s Largest La Tène Period Necropolis Discovered in Northeast Paris
Excavations in Bobigny, located in the northeastern part of Paris, have added more than two dozen new burials to Europe’s largest La Tène period necropolis. Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) discovered 26 tombs, dating back to the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. The findings are significant as they offer…