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'Lost' medieval castle found hiding inside university building in Dublin

18 September 2026 at 16:00
One of Dublin's "lost" medieval castles has been found hiding in plain sight inside University College Dublin's Roebuck Castle. New research reveals that substantial remains of the Norman castle of Roebuck, an important fortress on one of the approach roads into the medieval city of Dublin, are preserved within the modern-day building.

How 30,000 archaeological treasures were saved from imminent destruction during Syria's civil war

18 September 2026 at 15:40
A new study sheds light on how Syrian archaeologists risked their lives to rescue approximately 30,000 priceless artifacts from the Deir ez-Zor Museum during the summers of 2014 and 2015 as the city faced the imminent threat of capture by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh.

Laser scans reveal 23 hidden ship carvings on Bronze Age temple wall in Cyprus

17 September 2026 at 14:20
About 40 years ago, researchers found ancient ship carvings on a temple wall in Cyprus, possibly all carved at once at the tail end of the Bronze Age, around the time of the infamous Bronze Age collapse. Then, decades later, a new study revealed they had missed nearly two dozen ancient carvings.

Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed Catholic manuscriptβ€”its lost pages have just been rediscovered

17 September 2026 at 00:10
Sir John Gage, a key figure in Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, saved a dangerous Catholic book from likely destruction, a new study suggests. The identification of six lost pages of a medieval bestsellerβ€”illicitly prized by Catholics in the Reformationβ€”as belonging to Gage, exposes the split loyalties of one of Tudor England's great survivors.

Insect remains reveal Indigenous burial practices in the Canary Islands

17 September 2026 at 00:00
Archaeologists have analyzed insect remains preserved in the 7th to 9th centuries AD funerary cave of Cruz de la Esquina, Gran Canaria, and found that it was used by the island's Indigenous people for food storage before being adapted into a burial site. The findings have been published in the journal Antiquity.

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