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How Ancient Coins Reveal Rome’s Economic Connections
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (418+ words) Imagine finding a Roman coin hundreds of miles from the place where it was made. Who carried it there? A soldier, a merchant, or someone whose journey has left no other trace? One coin leaves those questions open. Put thousands…...
A Bronze Chariot Emerges From a Sealed Tartessian Site in Spain — Curiosmos
3+ week, 4+ day ago (652+ words) Archaeologists working at Casas del Turuñuelo have uncovered an unusually decorated bronze chariot, along with imported objects that trace Tartessian connections across the ancient Mediterranean. In the ruins of a deliberately sealed building in southwestern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a…...
How Archaeologists Reconstruct the Making of Ancient Iron — Curiosmos
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (667+ words) An ancient iron object can look simple: a blade, nail, tool or fragment of a chain. Making it required a long chain of decisions, from finding ore and fuel to building a furnace and working the metal after it cooled....
Why Where an Ancient Object Is Found Matters More Than the Object Itself — Curiosmos
1+ week, 4+ day ago (500+ words) When people imagine archaeology, they often picture a spectacular object being lifted from the ground: a gold ornament, a carved stone or a decorated pot. For archaeologists, the object is only part of the evidence. The soil around it, the…...
The Shackled Dead of Phaleron Were Not Foreign Invaders, New Study Finds — Curiosmos
8+ hour, 53+ min ago (556+ words) A chemical record preserved in their teeth suggests that most of the men in Phaleron’s shackled mass graves grew up in Attica. The finding shifts the debate from foreign invaders to violence within the community itself. At first glance, the…...
Why Archaeologists Leave Some Discoveries Unexcavated — Curiosmos
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (551+ words) Finding an ancient structure does not always mean that archaeologists should uncover all of it immediately. In some cases, the most responsible decision is to leave part of a site in the ground. Soil can protect fragile walls, organic material…...
Huaca Pucllana Canal Burial May Be a Ritual Offering
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1062+ words) The body was placed on its left side inside a disused canal, with the skull facing Huaca Pucllana's pyramid and the Pacific Ocean. Archaeologists believe the burial may have formed part of a deliberate offering when a ceremonial water feature…...
Qurayyah Painted Ware: The Bronze Age Pottery That Worked Like a Brand
2+ week, 3+ day ago (644+ words) Qurayyah Painted Ware carried repeatable designs across Bronze Age Arabia. New research suggests that its makers built recognition and demand around a distinctive style more than 3,000 years ago. The comparison does not mean Bronze Age traders had modern advertising departments....
A Roman Cave Sanctuary in Spain Holds 120 Inscriptions—and Five Name an Unknown Goddess — Curiosmos
2+ week, 5+ day ago (244+ words) Deep inside a cave near Valencia, archaeologists have documented at least 120 Latin inscriptions from the Roman period. Five of them refer to a previously unknown goddess addressed as Domina—“the Lady”—giving researchers an unusual glimpse into the ritual lives…...
An Ancient Iron Furnace in Uzbekistan Is Opening a Window on Central Asian Metalworking — Curiosmos
2+ week, 4+ day ago (484+ words) An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project has uncovered the remains of a settlement and a large…...