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¦]
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¦]
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 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¦]
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¦]
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¦]
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 [β¦]
A team from the University of Granada has confirmed that a room in the Roman villa of Fuente Γlamo, 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 [β¦]
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 [β¦]
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 [β¦]
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 [β¦]
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 Earthβs crust, without erupting at the surface. [β¦]
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 [β¦]
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