1+ week, 2+ day ago   (378+ words) The statue’s unique style hints at a vanished empire. “It is very rare to find such monumental sculpture of this period anywhere in the Mediterranean, and this exceptionally well-preserved, unique monument casts important new light on the major arts of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) The largest hoard of its kind ever found may mark the moment an epidemic swept through town. Someone in medieval Kolomna, Russia, buried over 2,600 silver coins in a small ceramic jug and never came back for them. Archaeologists working in…...

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…...

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, 5+ day ago   (413+ words) A study of scattered bones and 90 Roman coins points to a possible massacre on the Isle of Wight. Overlooking Sandown Bay on the Isle of Wight, Brading Roman Villa features preserved mosaic floors, Roman archaeology, and a link to the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (394+ words) He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere. On May 25, 2023, a diver off Sardinia noticed something metallic in the seagrass near Arzachena. The first object led investigators to a much larger cache: tens…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (329+ words) Nothing closes a watering hole like a dead body. Archaeologists discovered two strikingly different types of offerings dropped into a well dug in the early fifth century B.C.E. by the Etruscan people of northern Italy. The two rituals stand in stark…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (392+ words) The ship vanished into the Mediterranean more than 20 centuries ago carrying hundreds of amphorae. When spearfisherman Giacomo De Mola descended 150 feet below the water’s surface off the coast of Sicily, he expected to find a large rock. Instead, he discovered…...

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....