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 […]
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