Megaliths βthose enormous stone blocks that have stood for millenniaβ continue to fascinate archaeologists and the general public. A recent compilation of books published between 2025 and 2026 shows that, although research has advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to new technologies, some fundamental questions remain without definitive answers. Who built these monuments? Why did [β¦]
What lies beneath one of the most important fortified settlements of Hellenistic Calabria? A study combining archaeology and geophysics has begun to answer this question. Thanks to the application of sophisticated subsurface exploration techniques, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Catania has succeeded in identifying anomalies compatible with buried structures at the Castiglione di [β¦]
The death, which radiocarbon dating places between 3932 and 3653 B.C., surprised an individual at approximately forty weeks of gestation in the rock shelter of Ripari AltΓ, at 1,100 meters above sea level, within the current Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. The archaeological context points to the final phases of the Neolithic, a period in which [β¦]
Excavations carried out as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) have brought to light an architectural complex of incalculable value in the heart of Villa Celimontana. Under the supervision of the Special Superintendency of Rome of the Ministry of Culture, the work has uncovered eight rooms belonging to an Imperial-era building whose [β¦]
More than 500 meters beneath the Earthβs surface, a dark and ancient world teems with fungal life on a scale scientists had never imagined. A research team led by the University of Michigan has, for the first time, quantified the abundance of fungi in a deep subsurface site, reaching depths of up to 500 meters, [β¦]
Excavations by the University of Catania at the Tava Tepe site, located in western Azerbaijan, have uncovered an archaeological complex that upends established notions about Late Bronze Age communities in the Caucasus region. What was initially interpreted as an isolated domestic structure, dated to around 1300β1000 BCE, has turned out to be the last link [β¦]
The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the completion of the excavation and restoration works of an ancient pool located in the frigidarium of the monumental complex known as the Hamam Gymnasium, within the ancient city of Tralleis, in the province of AydΔ±n. The newly restored structure has remarkable dimensions: [β¦]
The archaeological excavations currently being carried out at Kapellenberg, near Hofheim am Taunus in Germany, have provided new evidence during this summer campaign regarding the possible location of the central tomb of a large burial mound dating back approximately 6,000 years, as confirmed by the leaders of the research project directed by Professor Detlef Gronenborn [β¦]
Fakir is a term of Arabic origin that can be translated as βpoorβ and originally referred to a Muslim holy man, a Sufi saint, although since the Mughal Era it has also been applied to Hindu sadhus or ascetics, generally destitute wanderers who mortify their bodies as an act of penance in order to renounce [β¦]
The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery in the ancient city of Sardis, in the province of Manisa, of a male marble sculpture approximately 2,500 years old, a piece that, due to its monumental dimensions and unusual state of preservation, stands out as an exceptional find for [β¦]
In the summer of 15 BC, Emperor Augustusβ two stepsons, Tiberius and Drusus, brought the Central Alps and the Swiss Plateau under Roman control. That campaign concluded decades of efforts to link the Gallic provinces with Illyricum and secure the routes between northern Italy and the Danube. However, while the western and eastern routes of [β¦]
In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic cemetery of CoΓ«by, discovered in 1986. This site, preserved for centuries by the dense forest cover that shielded it from intensive agriculture, contains around 95 megalithic monuments from different periods, from the Neolithic to [β¦]
The Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, under the Greek Ministry of Culture, has completed an official inspection at a point along the shoreline of the island of Andros following a report from a private individual who alerted authorities to the presence of archaeological remains on the seabed. The technical team, composed of an archaeologist, a conservator, [β¦]
The construction of the new variant of the A8 highway in the area known as the Albaufstieg, south of Stuttgart (Germany), has uncovered a first-rate archaeological find: a segment of the ancient Roman road that, two millennia ago, structured defense and trade along the Empireβs frontier. The discovery reveals a stretch of approximately ninety meters [β¦]
The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giantsβ Tomb that until now had remained completely hidden by the dense Mediterranean scrub. The monument is situated on the southern slope of Crastu Littu, an elevation [β¦]
A team of archaeologists from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), in collaboration with a specialized company, has confirmed the existence of what is considered the first evidence of prehistoric occupation in the German municipality of Bochum. The discovery took place on a plot previously used for agriculture, located in the Linden neighborhood, where a real estate [β¦]
The stone walls of the Gate of Tauchira, in the ancient city of Ptolemais (modern Libya), have preserved for more than two thousand years a silent record of the activity of its builders. These are 626 stonemason marks engraved on the limestone blocks that form this monumental fortified entrance. A research team from the University [β¦]
Research on nuclear explosion residues continues to bring surprises to the scientific community. A research group led by Luca Bindi, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence, has identified a multicomponent metallic alloy previously unknown, which formed during the Hiroshima atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, and that has remained hidden [β¦]
The archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered, during its first excavation campaign at the Tell Nasser archaeological area, a comprehensive complex of bathing facilities dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The site is located approximately 40 kilometers south of the city of Port Said, 35 kilometers north of the [β¦]
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 [β¦]
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