5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (409+ words) Archaeologists excavating a medieval castle in Armenia have uncovered more than forty underground ovens — evidence that an aristocratic fortress was gradually taken over by ordinary households, generation after generation, all organized around a single task: baking bread. They’re called tonirs…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (340+ words) Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced the find on social media alongside a second discovery from this year’s campaign: a head of Eros, the Greek god of desire — a figure familiar to English speakers mainly through his Roman counterpart, Cupid — carved…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (817+ words) The fragment decorated with snake heads, discovered at the Collet site (Calonge), is one of the few pieces of its kind documented in the Iberian Peninsula and evidences the presence of Eastern cults in the rural sphere during the Augustan…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (625+ words) On November 26, 2007, the Austrian National Library did something it hardly ever does: it took the Tabula Peutingeriana out of its climate-controlled display case and allowed the public to see it for a few hours. Due to its extreme fragility, the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (633+ words) Ersoy himself specified that the piece was found exactly where it had been deposited in that remote era, inside a circular structure three meters in diameter that preserved its original flat-slab pavement and a continuous bench attached to the perimeter…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (890+ words) More than 120 Latin inscriptions and a set of offerings deposited by the water reveal an organized cult to an unknown divinity. A woman ventures into the mountain with a light and a spindle in her hands, walking through the passageways…...