4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (409+ words) Archaeologists excavating a medieval castle in Armenia have uncovered more than forty underground ovens — evidence that an aristocratic fortress was gradually taken over by ordinary households, generation after generation, all organized around a single task: baking bread. They’re called tonirs…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (733+ words) Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble sculptures from the Roman era, including a complete representation…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (633+ words) Ersoy himself specified that the piece was found exactly where it had been deposited in that remote era, inside a circular structure three meters in diameter that preserved its original flat-slab pavement and a continuous bench attached to the perimeter…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (546+ words) An archaeological study reveals that these rare obsidian pieces, found only in this region, could be hunters’ marks or symbols of personal identity The limited distribution of the incised arrowheads is not the result of the availability of material, but…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1460+ words) An analysis of the pottery from the only Early Neolithic lakeside settlement in northwestern Germany shows intense cultural exchanges and a slow transition toward agriculture. The more than 50,000 pottery fragments found at the Hüde I site, on Lake Dümmer (Lower…...