3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (419+ words) Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had never grown in their fields. It wasn’t a…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (215+ words) Together, they recovered more than 1,500 archaeological and paleontological remains this season alone — stone tools and animal bones that are reshaping what’s known about how Neanderthal groups lived on Spain’s northern plateau roughly 46,000 years ago, deep in the Late Pleistocene. For…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (340+ words) Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced the find on social media alongside a second discovery from this year’s campaign: a head of Eros, the Greek god of desire — a figure familiar to English speakers mainly through his Roman counterpart, Cupid — carved…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1359+ words) The burial of a young woman of high rank, with Scandinavian ancestry and a meat-based diet, reveals her contemporaries’ fear that she might return as a demon. Researchers have documented for the first time the combination of a sickle and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (506+ words) Danish archaeology is facing one of the most unique discoveries of the last decade in the field of ancient Nordic clothing. During the excavation at the site known as Skonager (ARV 661), carried out near Varde, in the heart of Western…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (890+ words) More than 120 Latin inscriptions and a set of offerings deposited by the water reveal an organized cult to an unknown divinity. A woman ventures into the mountain with a light and a spindle in her hands, walking through the passageways…...