3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (104+ words) The painted creature inside an Etruscan tomb convinced mourners they were under its spell. A Bone Led to a Revolutionary War Mass Grave Why Scientists Buried Thousands of Undies in Soil Early Humans’ Brains Linked to Another Dimension Archaeologists Found…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (459+ words) Montbellant Hill was first home to a first-century B.C. city before Roman and medieval structures were built on top of it in the ensuing centuries. In a translated statement from the institute, the team wrote that they had discovered groupings of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (279+ words) Buried in a Turkish cave for millennia, the figurines may point to a long-lost mountain cult. The 25 recently discovered, rudimentarily-carved stone turtle figurines surrounding a curved architectural feature in a cave under Turkey’s Gedikkaya Hill must have had some sort…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (219+ words) The Watson Brake site predates the oldest pyramid in Egypt by almost 2,000 years. Most ancient peoples are assumed to have settled permanently in a region before developing agriculture, and the surplus that followed would lead to a social hierarchy, with…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (296+ words) A fortified Roman camp, complete with a bakery and blacksmith’s forge, is still emerging from the soil. qHere’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Roman artisans baked bread alongside blacksmiths working at a forge within a first-century C.E....

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (193+ words) The Spanish colony Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, located at the southern tip of Chile, lasted less than three years due to harsh conditions. “For centuries,” wrote the National Historical Museum in a translated post, “the exact location of its…...