1+ day, 17+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (561+ words) More than four thousand years ago, prehistoric communities in northern England appear to have faced an extraordinary engineering challenge. They selected enormous sandstone blocks weighing around 25 tonnes, moved them roughly 18 kilometres across the landscape and raised them into a monumental…...

4+ day, 20+ 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, 19+ hour ago   (537+ words) Thousands of silver coins buried in two birch bark containers have emerged from the ground near Sysmä in southern Finland, forming what archaeologists describe as the largest known Late Iron Age coin hoard ever found in the country. Metal detector…...

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…...