2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (419+ words) Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had never grown in their fields. It wasn’t a…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (409+ words) Archaeologists excavating a medieval castle in Armenia have uncovered more than forty underground ovens — evidence that an aristocratic fortress was gradually taken over by ordinary households, generation after generation, all organized around a single task: baking bread. They’re called tonirs…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (215+ words) Together, they recovered more than 1,500 archaeological and paleontological remains this season alone — stone tools and animal bones that are reshaping what’s known about how Neanderthal groups lived on Spain’s northern plateau roughly 46,000 years ago, deep in the Late Pleistocene. For…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (340+ words) Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced the find on social media alongside a second discovery from this year’s campaign: a head of Eros, the Greek god of desire — a figure familiar to English speakers mainly through his Roman counterpart, Cupid — carved…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (480+ words) That destruction, though, belongs to the final phase of the Iberian city — centuries after the head was carved. It’s the reason Libisosa has kept archaeologists busy for nearly thirty years: few sites its size have yielded this volume of material....

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (697+ words) A woman buried face-down in Henan province, her nose bones cleanly cut and healed, offers the first skeletal evidence of a punishment China's legal codes described for over a thousand years. Chinese legal texts have described nasal amputation as a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (817+ words) The fragment decorated with snake heads, discovered at the Collet site (Calonge), is one of the few pieces of its kind documented in the Iberian Peninsula and evidences the presence of Eastern cults in the rural sphere during the Augustan…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (625+ words) On November 26, 2007, the Austrian National Library did something it hardly ever does: it took the Tabula Peutingeriana out of its climate-controlled display case and allowed the public to see it for a few hours. Due to its extreme fragility, the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (892+ words) It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks hunted on the Nile to the ibis that lent its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (733+ words) Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble sculptures from the Roman era, including a complete representation…...