5+ day, 2+ 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   (548+ words) The Celtic settlement yielded hundreds of coins, amber, jewelry, and luxury ceramics. A Celtic settlement from the second century B.C. discovered in modern-day Czech Republic has yielded an impressive haul of opulence, from hundreds of gold and silver coins to precious…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (195+ words) The creation of Lake Mead in the 1930s flooded an old western town. Now, due to extreme drought, it’s slowly rising from the man-made lake. Of course, the entire purpose of the dam was to create an artificial lake in its…...

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, 38+ min 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…...