Atop an ancient grain storage building, in a settlement of the local Yampara elite, archaeologists Sonia Alconini and Walter Sánchez-Canedo have uncovered an exceptional find: a set of six copper bells folded into a pyramidal shape, deposited as a ritual offering more than five centuries ago, during the expansion of the Inca Empire through the […]

More than two thousand years ago, in the middle of the Iron Age, the Celts built a large fortified settlement on two peninsulas that extended into the Rhine River, near what is now the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. This place, known as the oppidum of Altenburg-Rheinau, is considered by archaeologists to be a true commercial […]