New archaeological discoveries in Spain and Türkiye reveal how the images of Venus and Tyche shaped ancient lives, connecting divine symbolism with domestic devotion, civic identity, memory, and the ways people understood their place in the world.
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A private citizen in Norway with a passion for underwater exploration has turned up an astonishing find in the nation’s waters: a shipwreck with a cargo of intact Chinese porcelain. Espen Saastad, a watchmaker by trade, also happens to own a small underwater survey company, and it was during one such survey in the Skagerrak […]
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There’s no doubt about it – burning stuff is what makes us human. Aside from the fact that fire makes food safer, tastier, and more digestible, burning a few sticks pushes back the darkness, keeps predators at bay, and keeps us toasty warm.
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In the real Caribbean, there were once real pirates, and now a team of archaeologists and filmmakers has discovered the first shipwrecks that can help tell the story of the Golden Age of Piracy. Between the 1690s and 1720s, a cast of pirates including illustrious names as Blackbeard, Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack Rackham and Anne […]
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Fragments of a life-sized mural depicting a larger-than-life figure of the Iliad has been found in the remains of a Roman villa near Reims, France. The discovery included several exquisite bronze statuettes and the remains of a colonnaded facade, indicating that high artistic expression among local Roman well-to-do even was typical, and available, even when […]
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5 years after its discovery and 2 years after preservation, the largest collection of Iron age artifacts ever found in Britain is revealing its secrets. Found in the “rural backwater” of northern England’s county of Yorkshire, the mélange of horse tackle, carriage pieces, weapons, and home goods is proving the region was anything but. Now, […]
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The comb was found in a trash pile, what the archeologists call a midden, not far above the sea and just outside the remains of a longhouse. From the sit of the house and the site of the midden we know it was an easy toss: you could practically step outside and hurl food scraps, […]
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In Luxor, a large burial chamber has been uncovered in one of the city’s ancient necropolises that has remained undisturbed for at least 2,600 years. Inside was a depository of 22 coffins and 8 mummies that seemed to belong to a special female temple caste who sang sacred songs at festivals and during religious rites. […]
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Few of us enjoy the dentist – but next time you're in the chair, think about how lucky you are not to have been visiting a Neanderthal tooth doctor. New research on a single tooth from a Russian cave has found that its center is marked with the kind of grooves made by stone tools used as rudimentary drills.
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A hoard of coins from England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway itself have been discovered in Innlandet County in Norway. The coins come from the period of conversion from ancient heathenry to Christianity.
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New archaeological and genetic research suggests bread wheat may have first emerged 8,000 years ago in the South Caucasus region of modern-day Georgia. The findings connect ancient farming communities, wild goatgrass, bread wheat, and even early winemaking in one of humanity’s earliest agricultural landscapes.
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A 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy was discovered buried with a fragment of papyrus that contained a short passage from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first time that literature—instead of a ‘magical or ritual text’—has been found incorporated directly into a burial. This unique discovery, made by a University of Barcelona team, suggests new insights into the spread […]
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A man who stole 700-year-old floor tiles from a Medieval monastery when he was a child has finally returned them to English Heritage after finding them inside a candy tin where they’d been kept for nearly 60 years. Simon White was a nine-year-old boy when he took the pieces as a souvenir from Wenlock Priory, […]
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More than 3,150 medieval coins dating back to the Viking Age were found in a field in Norway, the largest such discovery in the country’s history. The search is ongoing, and archeologists expect there to be more in the vicinity. Discovered in a field near the village of Rena, in Innlandet County, they offer a […]
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As Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey approaches release, newly circulating archaeological findings from Ithaca reveal long-standing ritual devotion to Odysseus. The discoveries highlight how ancient storytelling shaped sacred landscapes, pilgrimage practices, and the lived religious experience of the ancient Mediterranean world.
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The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism announced the discovery of a statue of the goddess Athena from the Augustinian period that is nearly two meters tall in the ancient city of Laodikeia.
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A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth’s history—and answering a decades-old scientific mystery. Lystrosaurus, a hardy, plant-eating mammal ancestor, rose to prominence following a mass extinction some 252 million years ago—the most devastating extinction event our planet has ever experienced. While countless species vanished, Lystrosaurus…
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A golden helmet belonging to an ancient Romanian culture holding “inestimable value” was recovered after it was stolen in January from a Museum where it was on loan. A museum director sought to demonstrate the value of Romanian history by loaning the national treasure to a Dutch museum as part of a 6-month-long exhibition, but […]
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Preparatory archaeology work at an English wind farm development site has turned up two incredible discoveries. The first was a Roman villa and bathhouse, and the second was a Neolithic burial mound. These were discovered by a team of archaeologists who fully believed they weren’t going to find anything. The team works for Headland Archaeology, […]
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In November 2024, an exceptional shipwreck was discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It contained an exquisitely preserved cachet of pottery, weapons, tools, and components for horse-drawn transport that date back 2,000 years. Archaeologists believe it was a civilian merchant ship crossing the lake on a supply mission to a Roman legionary camp […]
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Last year thieves stole a Dacian helmet and three golden bracelets, national treasures from Romania, from a Dutch museum. Last week the accused returned most of the artifacts as part of a plea deal.
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A wooden loom that survived a devastating fire 3,500 years ago has revealed key aspects of the Bronze Age textile revolution. Most of the weights as well as components made from wood and plant fibers remained remarkably intact despite the blaze that burned down a settlement near Villena in present day Spain. Scientists explained that […]
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Tribal casinos in the US may seem a more natural fit, after hearing about new research showing that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone else in the world. Evidence revealed that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains […]
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It had long been suspected that somewhere in or under the Church of Peter and Paul in Wolder, the Netherlands, lay the remains of the man who inspired the character of d’Artagnan, immortalized in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Real name Charles de Batz de Castelmore, this wartime participant was a close aid of the […]
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In 2021 GNN reported that a man diving off the Israeli coast discovered a sword from the Crusader period. All locked up in shells and sand, it looked like it could have been forged in mythical Atlantis, and even half-buried on the seabed, diver Shlomi Katzin couldn’t have mistaken its shape. Now, incredibly, Katzin has […]
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Excavations beneath Cologne’s future Jewish museum have uncovered a rare 2nd-century Roman household shrine: the first lararium found north of the Alp that is reshaping our understanding of domestic religion along the Rhine frontier.
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Queensland police say they’ve recovered 4 priceless artifacts of ancient Egyptian antiquity that had been stolen from a museum earlier this month. The world is experiencing a rash of unsolved museum break-ins lately, but thanks to superb policing, this one wasn’t added to the list. At approximately 3 a.m., a police report stated, a man […]
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