It was more than a century ago that some extraordinarily rare cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia dating to the second millennium BC were discovered during an archaeological expedition in Iraq. Now, after decades of determined effort, scholars have finally been able...
Earlier this month, an art historian casually browsing X stumbled upon a post, shared by the British Crown’s representative in Warwickshire, featuring a reception at the local shire hall. In the background, next to a door marked by a neon...
Archaeologists conducting a routine survey in a field in Czechia (or the Czech Republic) have unearthed a significant hoard of Bronze Age artifacts, eight arm rings, two pins, eight axes, and a spearhead. Using metal detectors, the items have been...
Recent laboratory investigations by GUARD Archaeology have unveiled fascinating details about a Bronze Age hoard discovered in Rosemarkie, Highland Scotland. This remarkable find includes nine bronze bracelets and necklaces buried around 1000 BC, along with rare organic plant remains, providing...
Archaeologists digging at the site of a new infrastructure project in Rome have unearthed some lost and forgotten stone walls from a grand medieval palace that was home to the Catholic papacy for nearly 1,000 years, from the fourth through...
Excavations near the village of Debelt in southeastern Bulgaria produced an astonishing artifact that changes the understanding of the history of Christianity in the country. At the site of an ancient Roman Empire colony known as Deultum, archaeologists unearthed a...
Lily Moore/The Conversation You might have heard of a group of women in Ancient Rome known as the “Vestal Virgins”. These female virginal guardians of the sacred flame of Rome could be buried alive for breaking their vows of chastity....
The eruption of the powerful volcano Vesuvius, which destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, remains one of history’s most well-known and well-remembered natural disasters. But what many don’t realize is that Pompeii was actually destroyed by two natural disasters,...
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient textile dyed with the Kermes vermilio insect, from the Cave of Skulls in Israel. This significant find dates back to the Middle Bronze Age (1954–1767 BC) and provides one of the earliest known instances of...
13-year-old Yair Whitson from Haifa made a significant archaeological discovery during a recreational walk with his father. The boy somehow happened upon an approximately 1,800-year-old bronze ring engraved with the image of Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of war and...
