14+ hour, 39+ min ago   (522+ words) A 3,600-year-old burial in western Azerbaijan has yielded weapons and other objects linked to a high-ranking Bronze Age warrior. Archaeologists found the artifacts in Kurgan No. 4 in the Sariyokhush area of the Keshikchidagh State Historical and Cultural Reserve, in Agstafa…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (643+ words) A routine garden project in Rebild has led to the largest known Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Denmark. The hoard contains 18.5 kilograms of silver, almost three times the weight of the previous record holder. The find was made…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (301+ words) Archaeologists studying a Roman planned town near Neuenstadt am Kocher in Germany think the settlement lasted only about two generations. The Roman settlement dates to the 2nd or 3rd century CE. Romans laid out the town as a planned settlement near the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (467+ words) Archaeologists are excavating the remains of a medieval settlement near Halberstadt in central Germany. The site lies beside the Frevelgraben, east of the city, near Gessnerstraße. The Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt began work at the site in March....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (526+ words) Stone from a lost Tudor fortress built by Henry VIII was reused during Victorian work at Dover Castle, new research suggests. Dr Christopher Moore, a Research Fellow at the University of Kent, traced masonry from Sandown Castle to an 1883-84 extension…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (501+ words) A 1,800-year-old iron shield boss containing cremated human bones has been rescued from a scrap yard in eastern Poland. The rare find points to a destroyed burial linked to the Przeworsk culture and Vandal communities. Museum staff identified the object…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (523+ words) Large ceramic jars used in daily life and burials became more uniform during Japan’s Edo period, according to a new study from the Institute of Science Tokyo. Researchers used shape analysis and machine learning to track changes across 243 Ogame jars…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (547+ words) Archaeologists have found 11 more carved obsidian arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik in Cappadocia, Turkey. The finds raise the site’s total to 12 and add to a regional group of 54 known examples. The arrowheads date to the Neolithic, between the late eighth and seventh…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (517+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered Late Bronze Age pottery, preserved spelt and large wooden structures at a submerged settlement beneath Lake Bolsena in central Italy. The finds came during the 2026 research and conservation campaign at Gran Carro di Bolsena. The work is…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (446+ words) Koskarlı Cave in Türkiye has revealed an intact hunter-gatherer occupation dating to about 12,900 to 12,000 years ago. The find provides the first systematic evidence of Epipaleolithic occupation in the eastern Black Sea region. The cave lies about 40 kilometers south of Trabzon,…...