Silver from the Islamic World Turns Up Near the Baltic’s Lost Viking City
A handful of silver coins found in a forest near the Baltic coast has reopened a much larger story — one that stretches from the Islamic world to…
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16 New Rock Art Panels Discovered at Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site
For thousands of years, ships and human figures lay almost invisible across the granite at Trättelanda in western Sweden. Now a new survey inside the Tanum World Heritage…
Göbeklitepe’s First Burials May Solve a 30-Year Mystery of 10,000-Year-Old Human Bones
For more than 30 years, archaeologists excavating Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye have faced a disturbing puzzle. Among the ruins of its monumental stone buildings, they kept finding fragments…
3,000-Year-Old Grape DNA Reveals the Phoenician Roots of Spanish Wine
Long before Roman vineyards spread across Spain, Phoenician sailors were carrying something across the Mediterranean that would change the peninsula’s agricultural history: grapevines. A new genetic study has…
18,000-Year-Old Ice Age Figurines Reveal a Secret Hidden in Mammoth Tusks
Some 18,000 years ago, an Ice Age artist picked up a piece of mammoth ivory and began carving a small human figure. The finished object was covered in…
Rare 2,600-Year-Old “Cube Tomb” in Italy Reveals a Corinthian Krater Used as a Funerary Urn
A ceramic vessel made in ancient Corinth more than 2,600 years ago has emerged from an unusual tomb in southern Italy, still carrying traces of the imagery that…
A Roman Tiler’s Account May Have Survived on a Villa Floor in Luxembourg
A few scratched marks on a floor tile from a Roman villa in Luxembourg may preserve something unexpectedly personal: the working account of an ancient craftsman. Archaeologists excavating…
The World’s Oldest Gold Treasure Came From a 6,500-Year-Old Cemetery in Bulgaria
More than 6,000 years ago, communities living near the Black Sea were already transforming gold into jewelry, ornaments, and symbols of status. Some of the earliest and most…
Actors Went Looking for Fictional Treasure and Found Rare Cavalry Armour Instead
They went into the mud looking for the kind of treasure usually found in an adventure story. Instead, at a historic palace in southwestern Poland, a group of…
Skeleton Found Curled Inside a Giant Roman Jar in Bulgaria May Preserve the Final Moments of an Ancient Attack
Archaeologists excavating the Roman city of Deultum in southeastern Bulgaria have discovered the skeleton of a young individual curled tightly inside a large ceramic storage vessel, apparently preserving…
