The Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt has announced the discovery of around twenty funerary tombstones, several sarcophagi, and a collection of amulets in Tell el-Deir, the necropolis located south of the city of New Damietta, in the Nile Delta. The discovery took place during the excavation season that the Egyptian archaeological mission is currently […]
The educational excavation campaign that the University of Vienna has been conducting since mid-July in the municipality of Hannersdorf, in the Oberwart district southeast of Vienna, has brought to light the remains of two pottery kilns from the Roman era in the first fifteen days of work. The work, led by archaeologist Basema Hamarneh, focuses […]
An international team of researchers has documented through airborne laser scanning the existence of an extensive multicultural civilization that thrived in the Southwestern Amazon between 600 B.C. and 850 A.D., and that housed millions of people at its peak. The findings, published after meticulous fieldwork covering approximately 4,500 square kilometers, transform the current understanding of […]
A team from the University of Granada has confirmed that a room in the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo, in the municipality of Puente Genil, functioned as a library, making it the oldest documented in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the best-preserved in the entire Empire. The study, published in the Journal of Mediterranean […]
Excavations carried out during 2025 in the Hohle Fels cave, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian Jura in southwest Germany, have yielded two new discoveries of extraordinary importance for understanding Paleolithic art. These are two representations of birds carved in mammoth ivory that are 40,000 years old and, due to their […]
The systematic excavations that have been underway since 2020 in the plain of Manzikert (in Turkish Malazgirt), in eastern Anatolia, have provided a new set of material evidence that makes it possible to better understand the military operations carried out around the fortress during the second half of the 11th century. Turkey’s Minister of Culture […]
A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology for lead metallurgy in the Iberian Peninsula. The research carried out at this Bronze Age site, whose results have just been published in the scientific journal Antiquity, places the production of lead objects between 1900 and […]
The publication in the journal PNAS Nexus of new evidence from Malta has shaken the foundations of what was believed about the maritime capabilities of the last hunter-gatherers in Europe. The discovery that the central Mediterranean islands were colonized before the invention of agriculture directly contradicts decades of established conceptions, which placed the development of […]
Satellite monitoring has allowed an international team of scientists to follow in real time the evolution of an extraordinarily rare geological process in the subsurface of Ethiopia. Between December 2024 and March 2025, a volume of 1.4 cubic kilometers of magma moved along approximately 50 kilometers inside the Earth’s crust, without erupting at the surface. […]
An international team of researchers has documented a set of fossilized footprints that offer an exceptional snapshot of the behavior of a group of ancient human relatives who inhabited the shores of a lake in northern Kenya. The recently published study analyzes the imprints belonging to eight individuals of the species Paranthropus boisei, an extinct […]
It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi and the Riace bronzes: like them, the Antikythera Ephebe still has its original eyes, made of glass paste, and those eyes are the reason […]
The archaeological campaign carried out during May and June 2026 in Cova Dones, located in the Valencian municipality of Millares in southeastern Spain, has completely transformed the previously known scope of this underground site. The work, led by researchers from the Universities of Alicante and Zaragoza, has documented a total of 120 Latin inscriptions on […]
A team of archaeologists has concluded, after several months of fieldwork, the excavation of a Germanic settlement of exceptional dimensions in the Sieker district, southeast of the German city of Bielefeld. The work, carried out under the supervision of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), has brought to light a populated structure that specialists are already calling […]
The Huashan rock paintings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, stretch over 260 kilometers along the Zuojiang River valley, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. More than 80 sites with human figures, animals, and bronze objects decorate cliffs that rise dozens of meters above the water. Created at least 2000 […]
The emergency archaeological intervention promoted by Cantonal Archaeology on Zürcherstrasse Street in Windisch (in the Swiss canton of Aargau) has concluded within the expected timeframe, according to sources from the institution in mid-July. The excavation team, composed of around twenty specialists, worked for eleven months on an area of approximately 4,000 square meters—the future site […]
The presentation of the project took place in the Palestra Grande of the Excavations, at the end of the International Workshop Pompeii: Excavations and Ongoing Research, held in the Park Auditorium. During the meeting, representatives from Italian and foreign institutions and universities participating in research activities at the site shared the progress of their respective […]
The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone. The analysis of more than 10,000 animal bones found at the Diana-Karataš fort, in eastern Serbia, demonstrates that meat was a regular part of their diet and that it varied significantly over the six […]
Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages. However, this figure, impressive as it may seem, represents only a snapshot of a constantly changing history, and questions about the evolution of linguistic diversity have remained among the most elusive for science for decades. How many languages existed before the appearance of written […]
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