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An Etruscan Medical School Emerges at San Casciano dei Bagni
New discoveries from the 2025 excavation season at the Bagno Grande Sanctuary in San Casciano dei Bagni are forcing scholars to rethink the boundaries between religion, medicine, and scientific knowledge in the ancient Mediterranean. Long understood primarily as a thermal healing sanctuary, the site now appears to have functioned as one of the most sophisticated…
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Europe’s Oldest Mule Found in Catalonia Rewrites the Timeline of Phoenician Influence
Early Iron Age hybrid uncovered in the Penedès region suggests equid crossbreeding knowledge reached Europe centuries earlier than believed When archaeologists opened a small Iron Age pit at Hort d’en Grimau nearly four decades ago, the discovery seemed intriguing but not extraordinary: a partially burned human skeleton, mixed with the bones of an equid. Only…
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Rare Wooden Hercules Found After Centuries Under Ibiza’s Waters
For centuries, it lay silent beneath Ibiza’s shifting groundwater — a small wooden Hercules sealed away from air and time.Now, archaeologists have brought the ancient figure back to light: a 30-centimeter Greco-Roman–style statue, carved in wood and astonishingly preserved by the island’s subterranean waters. The discovery was made during preventive excavations on the corner of…
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160 Roman Cremation Tombs Unearthed Near Ancient Olbia in Southern France
Archaeologists in southeastern France have uncovered a vast Roman necropolis dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries A.D. near the ancient city of Olbia, in today’s Hyères, Var. The burial ground, located along a Roman coastal road just outside the city walls, contains at least 160 cremation tombs — one of the largest known assemblages…
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Unearthed Wonder: Newly Discovered Domus de Janas Tombs Illuminate Sardinia’s Prehistoric Genius
In a stunning archaeological breakthrough, three newly uncovered tombs have expanded one of the Mediterranean’s most culturally significant prehistoric burial sites—the necropolis of Sant’Andrea Priu in northern Sardinia. These subterranean structures, known as Domus de Janas or “Fairy Houses,” bring the total number of tombs at the site to 20, offering fresh insights into burial…
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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 team of scholars from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMÜ), Oxford University, and other international institutions. One of the Oldest Burial Mounds in the Troas Region The tumulus, one of the…