1+ week, 25+ min 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (790+ words) A Roman mass grave discovered beneath a soccer field in Vienna is revealing new details about a violent clash that killed scores of young men nearly 2,000 years ago. An updated analysis has found that injuries were unusually concentrated around the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (561+ words) Archaeologists excavating Karahantepe in southeastern Türkiye have uncovered an approximately 11,000-year-old composite statue depicting a human figure seated on the back of a leopard, adding an unexpected new variation to the site’s already remarkable repertoire of human-animal imagery. Ersoy described…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1389+ words) Scientists investigating the boat-shaped Durupınar Formation in eastern Türkiye have detected right-angled anomalies beneath the ground and unusually high carbon levels in soil collected from inside the formation, adding a new chapter to one of archaeology’s most persistent and controversial…...

1+ week, 15+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 14+ 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…...