2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (503+ words) A new study pushes back the earliest known millet consumption in Bronze Age Europe by more than a century. Researchers found evidence of millet eating in southeastern Poland around 1590 BCE. The finding comes from a study of human remains from…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (528+ words) Ice age hunter-gatherers on an Indonesian island regularly sucked betel nuts to ease tooth pain, according to a new study. The practice dates back at least 25,000 years and pushes the known history of habitual betel nut drug use far deeper…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (581+ words) Intense wildfires in the ancient southern Levant might have helped Neolithic people develop pottery, according to a new study. The fires burned wide areas, stripped hillsides of plants and soil, and sent clay-rich earth into valleys. Amos Frumkin of the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (577+ words) More than 40 vertical ovens have been found inside a medieval castle at Aruch in central Armenia. Known as tonirs, the ovens were built and rebuilt over several centuries as the castle changed into a place for daily life and work....

4+ day, 20+ min ago   (599+ words) Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 kilometers across Yorkshire to build Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row, a new study finds. The stones form the Devil’s Arrows near Boroughbridge in northern England. Three giant gritstone pillars still stand there, with the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (371+ words) A joint Spanish-Egyptian archaeological team has uncovered a tomb dating to the late Fifth Dynasty at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb dates to the reign of King Djedkare Isesi, who ruled near the end of the Fifth Dynasty. The team found…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (525+ words) Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. The 2026 campaign runs from September 7 to October 4, with work both on land and underwater. The project is…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (581+ words) A new study of nearly 1,000 human bones from three Neolithic caves in southern Spain has found evidence of cannibalism at different times and under different social conditions. The research focused on Malalmuerzo, Carigüela and Majolicas caves in Granada, sites long…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (234+ words) Archaeologists have found a medieval cemetery beneath the Vlasmarkt in Ghent, Belgium, where as many as 240 people could be buried. The discovery came during a trial excavation by archaeology firm BAAC Vlaanderen. The work took place as the city was…...