2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (503+ words) A new study pushes back the earliest known millet consumption in Bronze Age Europe by more than a century. Researchers found evidence of millet eating in southeastern Poland around 1590 BCE. The finding comes from a study of human remains from…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (599+ words) Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 kilometers across Yorkshire to build Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row, a new study finds. The stones form the Devil’s Arrows near Boroughbridge in northern England. Three giant gritstone pillars still stand there, with the…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (525+ words) Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. The 2026 campaign runs from September 7 to October 4, with work both on land and underwater. The project is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (526+ words) Stone from a lost Tudor fortress built by Henry VIII was reused during Victorian work at Dover Castle, new research suggests. Dr Christopher Moore, a Research Fellow at the University of Kent, traced masonry from Sandown Castle to an 1883-84 extension…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (523+ words) Large ceramic jars used in daily life and burials became more uniform during Japan’s Edo period, according to a new study from the Institute of Science Tokyo. Researchers used shape analysis and machine learning to track changes across 243 Ogame jars…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (533+ words) A 6,500-year-old ritual center near Chleby in the Czech Republic was built more than 1,000 years before Stonehenge, new research shows. The large enclosure appears to have been planned around key movements of the Sun and Moon. Archaeologists from the University…...