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Rare Byzantine Gold Seal Ring Reveals a Woman???s Name After 700 Years
1+ day, 19+ 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…...
A Fortune Unearthed in Rural Luxembourg Sparked a Four-Year Secret Dig and an Unexpected Link to Ancient Anatolia
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (842+ words) Researchers recovered 141 late Roman gold solidi from the site known as Um Rank at Holzthum, in the commune of Parc Hosingen. The coins span the turbulent final decades of the fourth century, but their geographical origins suggest that at least…...
Syrian Man Finds Nearly 400 Ancient Artifacts While Digging Shelter From Assad Regime Bombing
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (652+ words) A Syrian man digging a bomb shelter to protect his family from airstrikes in Idlib made an unexpected archaeological discovery beneath the ground. Ziya Hanus encountered a cave containing nearly 400 archaeological artifacts in Idlib, then spent the next eight years…...
2,300-Year-Old Gold Necklace from a Tomb in the Oguz Kurgan Reveals an Amazon and Mysterious Bee-Women
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (858+ words) Researchers also continue to debate the precise date of the burial. Earlier studies placed it around 330–310 BCE, while more recent assessments have proposed dates around 350–340 BCE or 330–320 BCE. Treister therefore places the necklace within the rare gold jewelry traditions of…...
A Fishing Net Dragged a 2,300-Year-Old Bronze Woman from the Aegean Depths
1+ week, 5+ 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…...
105-Square-Meter Mosaic and 1,800-Year-Old Eros Head Unearthed at Pompeiopolis
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (835+ words) Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Pompeiopolis in northern Türkiye have uncovered approximately 105 square meters of remarkably well-preserved floor mosaics, while a second discovery — the marble head of Eros dating back around 1,800 years — is offering a glimpse into a…...
2,400-Year-Old Etruscan Tomb of the Blue Demons May Have Created a Trance-Like Sensory Experience
1+ week, 1+ day ago (565+ words) Demons at Tarquinia may have encountered far more than painted walls and a burial chamber. New research suggests that prolonged echoes, low-frequency sound, darkness and the tomb’s unsettling supernatural imagery could have combined to create an intensely disorienting, even trance-like…...
Archaeologists in Jordan Uncover a Church With an Unexpected Past as an Olive Press
1+ week, 2+ 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…...
A New Type of 4,600-Year-Old Board Game Discovered at Iran???s Burnt City
1+ week, 4+ 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…...
1,800-Year-Old Roman Villa Mosaic Discovered in T??rkiye Preserves the Names of a Cat and Dog
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (1115+ words) Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Adramytteion in western Türkiye have uncovered an unusually personal trace of Roman domestic life: a cat and a dog depicted in the mosaics of an elaborate residence, each accompanied by its name. The cat…...