13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1078+ words) The inscription identifies her as “sevasta Maria Skulena.” Women’s signet rings from this period are considerably rarer than those associated with men, making the object important not simply as Byzantine jewelry, but as evidence of a woman whose social position…...

3+ day, 16+ 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…...

5+ day, 23+ 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, 1+ day ago   (834+ words) A previously unknown Khirbet Qabla church uncovered in northern Jordan has revealed an unexpected earlier life: before becoming a Christian place of worship, the building had been used as an olive press. A small church uncovered at Khirbet Qabla in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1048+ words) Archaeologists working at Shahr-i Sokhta, the Bronze Age settlement better known as Iran’s Burnt City, have discovered a new type of 4,600-year-old board game, adding an unexpected chapter to a site already famous for preserving one of the ancient world’s…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...