21+ hour, 55+ min ago   (231+ words) A Croatian team has uncovered 32 more tombs in the western cemetery of Salona, once the capital of Roman Dalmatia, bringing the total documented there since 2022 to 152. One of this year's finds stands out: a skeleton buried face-down, an extremely unusual…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (419+ words) Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had never grown in their fields. It wasn’t a…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (718+ words) There is an exact point in the sky, directly opposite the Sun, where dust drifting between the planets reflects sunlight like a faint, diffuse mirror. It's called the gegenschein. Almost no one has seen it with the naked eye, and…...

5+ day, 22+ 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, 22+ 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, 2+ day ago   (480+ words) That destruction, though, belongs to the final phase of the Iberian city — centuries after the head was carved. It’s the reason Libisosa has kept archaeologists busy for nearly thirty years: few sites its size have yielded this volume of material....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (697+ words) A woman buried face-down in Henan province, her nose bones cleanly cut and healed, offers the first skeletal evidence of a punishment China's legal codes described for over a thousand years. Chinese legal texts have described nasal amputation as a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (711+ words) A project from the University of Udine combines drones, magnetic sensors, and surface surveys to map for the first time the vast lower city of the ancient metropolis, where the non-elite population lived. For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud,…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (507+ words) A study has analyzed 28 samples from 14 Egyptian works, from wooden chests to wall paintings, and has identified for the first time the use of plant proteins such as sesame and moringa in the paint layers, opening new questions about religious…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (733+ words) Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble sculptures from the Roman era, including a complete representation…...