18+ hour, 29+ min ago   (521+ words) When archaeologists uncovered the grave of a heavily armed man at North Bersted in West Sussex, they found the equipment expected of an elite Iron Age warrior: a sword, spear and shield. But one object complicated the picture — an unusual…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (332+ words) A small but striking object has emerged from the soil at Roman Vindolanda, the celebrated frontier fort just south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Archaeologists working at the site have uncovered a copper-alloy scabbard chape decorated with enamel, found…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (778+ words) They entered the muddy moat looking for the kind of treasure that belonged in a film script. Instead, beneath layers of dark silt at a historic palace in Poland, the searchers encountered something very real: a 19th-century cavalry cuirass that…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (470+ words) A fishing net dropped into the deep waters of the Aegean came back carrying something no crew could have expected: a nearly two-meter-tall bronze woman that had been lying on the seabed for more than two thousand years. The discovery…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1265+ words) Two pieces of worked wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have been identified as the oldest known handheld wooden tools made by hominins, dating to around 430,000 years ago. One appears to have been used as a digging…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1114+ words) A routine gardening project in northern Denmark has uncovered the largest known Viking Age silver hoard ever found in the country: 18.5 kilograms of silver comprising around 700 objects and fragments. The discovery was made in a private garden near Rebild, where…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1229+ words) A copper-alloy object barely 2.4 centimeters across has made a small Late Bronze Age hoard from eastern England unusually difficult to interpret. Found beside two socketed axes near Barton Turf in Norfolk, the roughly 3,000-year-old object has been classified as a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1180+ words) A rare Viking Age burial in western Denmark is preserving something archaeologists almost never get to see: traces of the clothes worn by a young person some 1,300 years ago, still caught between the metal ornaments that once held them in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (835+ words) Archaeologists in Czechia are uncovering new details about a 6,500-year-old prehistoric sanctuary whose entrances appear to have been carefully arranged around the movements of the Sun and Moon. The enormous enclosure near the village of Chleby predates the earliest phase…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (533+ words) Archaeologists excavating Gedikkaya Cave in northwestern Türkiye have uncovered around 25 stone turtle figurines from Epipaleolithic contexts dating between approximately 14,500 and 11,200 BCE, adding striking new evidence that prehistoric hunter-gatherers used parts of the cave for ritual or symbolic activities. Prof. Dr....