3+ day, 10+ 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…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (346+ words) A previously unknown Turkic stone sculpture in Kyrgyzstan has been documented beside a complex of nine ancient stone enclosures near Lake Issyk-Kul, placing the newly recognized monument within an archaeological setting rather than leaving it as an isolated figure in…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (702+ words) The idea is striking, but it should be treated as a hypothesis rather than a decipherment. What makes it worth examining is that the architectural interpretation itself is not without precedent. Archaeologists have previously suggested that the same three enigmatic…...

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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (768+ words) Archaeologists investigating a remarkably preserved 2,400-year-old Celtic structure in Aschaffenburg, Germany, now believe the massive timber-and-stone construction may have protected an important route from the Main River to an Iron Age settlement. Workers unexpectedly encountered the ancient timbers in March…...