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At the site of a large Roman hub where metalworkers, carpenters, and woodworkers traded in what’s now southern England, ...
06/09/2024

At the site of a large Roman hub where metalworkers, carpenters, and woodworkers traded in what’s now southern England, two wells were uncovered. The older, 28-foot-deep well soon collapsed, but the younger, 21-foot-deep well was revealed to be lined with wooden boards.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/29/excavation-reveals-two-roman-wells-in-england/

(© MOLA)

Researchers have detected evidence of the world’s oldest-recorded regional metal contamination in the soils of what was ...
06/09/2024

Researchers have detected evidence of the world’s oldest-recorded regional metal contamination in the soils of what was ancient Egypt’s Khufu Harbor, which housed construction transportation and a copper toolmaking industry. Contamination likely began around 3265 B.C. during the Predynastic period, peaked amid pyramid construction around 2500 B.C., and lasted until unrest in 1000 B.C.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/28/evidence-of-copper-pollution-found-in-ancient-egyptian-harbor/

(N. Marriner, CNRS-THEMA)

Divers investigating a shipwreck in shallow waters close to Helsinki’s Suomenlinna fortress area, where six 18th-century...
06/09/2024

Divers investigating a shipwreck in shallow waters close to Helsinki’s Suomenlinna fortress area, where six 18th-century fortifications were built on eight islands, discovered that the 108-foot-long wooden vessel was built with timbers from the Baltic Sea’s northern coast and was likely sunk deliberately around 1780, based on large stones found in the hull.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/28/18th-century-shipwreck-studied-off-coast-of-finland/

(Finnish Heritage Agency)

in 2019, Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, died at age 95. Read about the history of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe a...
06/09/2024

in 2019, Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, died at age 95. Read about the history of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe and its capital, Great Zimbabwe, which flourished from the 12th to the 15th century A.D.—in part due to its recently discovered water-bearing dhaka pits.

archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2023/world/?location=atw-zimbabwe

(Federica Sulas, Cambridge University)

In Mexico City’s Tlatelolco neighborhood, excavations in a temple known as the Great Basement dedicated to Tezcatlipoca,...
06/09/2024

In Mexico City’s Tlatelolco neighborhood, excavations in a temple known as the Great Basement dedicated to Tezcatlipoca, revealed a stone cist, or burial chamber, containing votive offerings deposited between 1375 and 1418 that included obsidian knives and blades likely used by priests for self sacrifice.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/world/?location=mexico-7

(Mauricio Marat/INAH)

At the Tel El-Faraeen site in the Nile Delta of lower Egypt, archaeologists unearthed a 6th-century B.C. astronomical ob...
05/09/2024

At the Tel El-Faraeen site in the Nile Delta of lower Egypt, archaeologists unearthed a 6th-century B.C. astronomical observatory containing a slanted stone sundial a timekeeping tool known as a merkhet, and a 26th Dynasty (664–526 B.C.) statue.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/28/2500-year-old-astronomical-observatory-discovered-in-egypt/

(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities)

An intact 3rd-century B.C. Thracian temple has been discovered in a mound in south-central Bulgaria, on the outskirts of...
05/09/2024

An intact 3rd-century B.C. Thracian temple has been discovered in a mound in south-central Bulgaria, on the outskirts of the city of Plovdiv, then known as Philippopolis.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/27/intact-thracian-temple-found-in-bulgaria/

(Municipality of Plovdiv)

At northeastern England’s Auckland Castle, a bishop’s palace originally constructed in the 12th century, archaeologists ...
05/09/2024

At northeastern England’s Auckland Castle, a bishop’s palace originally constructed in the 12th century, archaeologists have unearthed traces of a mid-17th-century house owned by Arthur Haselrig, a Puritan and a supporter of Parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/27/traces-of-parliamentarians-house-unearthed-in-england-at-bishops-medieval-palace/

(Durham University)

in 2001, scientists revealed evidence of a theorized black hole in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy. Read about the ...
05/09/2024

in 2001, scientists revealed evidence of a theorized black hole in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy. Read about the history of the world’s oldest representation of a specific astronomical phenomenon—the Nebra Sky Disc—excavated in Germany and dated to 1800 B.C.

archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2013/digs-discoveries/apollo-rocket-engine-recovered/

(Courtesy Bezos Expeditions)

The homestead of a prominent formerly enslaved man known as King Pompey Mansfield, who was one of New England’s first Bl...
05/09/2024

The homestead of a prominent formerly enslaved man known as King Pompey Mansfield, who was one of New England’s first Black property owners in the 1760s, has been located along the Saugus River, just north of Boston.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/world/?location=massachusetts

(Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University)

Analysis of the tombs and genomes of over 50 people buried between the 6th and 8th centuries A.D. in a cemetery in Colle...
04/09/2024

Analysis of the tombs and genomes of over 50 people buried between the 6th and 8th centuries A.D. in a cemetery in Collegno, Italy, indicates that generations of ruling medieval European families mixed with each other, incorporating individuals with diverse genetic backgrounds to form new ruling groups.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/27/scientists-look-for-roots-of-europes-early-rulers/

(Stony Brook University)

At the 18th-century home of a wealthy to***co plantation owner in Williamsburg, Virginia, archaeologists have found poss...
04/09/2024

At the 18th-century home of a wealthy to***co plantation owner in Williamsburg, Virginia, archaeologists have found possible evidence for the presence of enslaved gardeners. Excavations have unearthed red cedar fence posts, garden paths, animal remains, and a pierced coin possibly worn as a good luck charm.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/26/virginia-planters-garden-uncovered/

(Wayne Reynolds, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

Rome’s triumphal Arch of Constantine, which was constructed to celebrate the victory of Constantine the Great over Maxen...
04/09/2024

Rome’s triumphal Arch of Constantine, which was constructed to celebrate the victory of Constantine the Great over Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 A.D., was struck by lightning during a storm. Blocks of stone and rubble knocked off of the 82-foot-tall monument have been retrieved.

archaeology.org/news/2024/09/04/romes-arch-of-constantine-struck-by-lightning/

(Colosseum Archaeological Park

From the Archives: Dedicated in A.D. 315, the Arch of Constantine incorporated sculpted decoration from earlier monument...
04/09/2024

From the Archives: Dedicated in A.D. 315, the Arch of Constantine incorporated sculpted decoration from earlier monuments to connect the emperor to his predecessors and reflect his vision of Rome’s future.

archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2022/features/rome-constantine-arch/

(Noppasin Wongchum/ Alamy Stock Photo)

A new review of accounts compiled from over 400 cross-cultural sources, from 1530s Coahuiltecan hunters in northern Mexi...
04/09/2024

A new review of accounts compiled from over 400 cross-cultural sources, from 1530s Coahuiltecan hunters in northern Mexico to modern Kenyan shepherds capturing cheetahs, suggests that humans evolved to maximize stamina and smarts used in an endurance running hunting strategy that exhausts prey into submission.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/digs-discoveries/from-hunter-to-marathoner/

(Universal History Archive/UIG/Bridgeman Images)

Some 260 feet below the coastal waters of western Sicily, divers recovered a bronze ram decorated with a helmet topped w...
03/09/2024

Some 260 feet below the coastal waters of western Sicily, divers recovered a bronze ram decorated with a helmet topped with three feathers that was likely placed on the bow of a warship involved in the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 B.C. during the First Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/26/bronze-ships-ram-recovered-near-sicily/

(Superintendency of the Sea)

Archaeologists in south-central Bulgaria have discovered a Roman-era grave that likely belonged to a Thracian aristocrat...
03/09/2024

Archaeologists in south-central Bulgaria have discovered a Roman-era grave that likely belonged to a Thracian aristocrat buried wearing clothing decorated with gold appliqués, a gold-inlaid knife, and a gold necklace (pictured), diadem, and ring. The remains of a horse and full battle gear were also recovered.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/26/thracian-horsemans-grave-unearthed-in-bulgaria/

(Municipality of Topolovgrad)

In northwestern Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park, a five-foot sandstone door guardian statue, or Dvarapala, has bee...
03/09/2024

In northwestern Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park, a five-foot sandstone door guardian statue, or Dvarapala, has been uncovered near the second gate at the Banteay Prei temple that was constructed by the Khmer king Jayavarman VII (reigned 1181–1218).

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/26/door-guardian-sculpture-discovered-at-angkor-archaeological-park/

(Phouk Chea/Chea Sarith/ANA)

in 1650, the Battle of Dunbar in Scotland ended in a decisive victory for the English Parliamentary army led by Oliver...
03/09/2024

in 1650, the Battle of Dunbar in Scotland ended in a decisive victory for the English Parliamentary army led by Oliver Cromwell. Read about the archaeological evidence of the lives of the 4,000 Scottish Covenanting army soldiers taken prisoner in the battle’s aftermath.

archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2017/features/scotland-dunbar-battle/

(Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo)

By detecting evidence of cosmic radiation bursts—known as Miyake Events—in ancient wood samples, archaeologists have bee...
03/09/2024

By detecting evidence of cosmic radiation bursts—known as Miyake Events—in ancient wood samples, archaeologists have been able to date phases of construction at the lakefront Neolithic (7000–3200 B.C.) settlement of Dispilio in northern Greece to a period between 5328 and 5140 B.C.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/digs-discoveries/cosmic-ray-calendar/

(© Dispilio Excavations, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Humans have occupied western Argentina’s Barrancas River Valley since at least the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 ...
01/09/2024

Humans have occupied western Argentina’s Barrancas River Valley since at least the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago, but excavations have only recently begun turning up artifacts from many eras. These include a 9,700-year-old burial, vacuña leather slippers, obsidian pipes, glass beads, Atacama ceramics, 3,500-year-old rock art, and “Stone Map” a large boulder engraved with 15th-century scenes of rural corrals.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/off-the-grid/barrancas-river-valley-argentina/

(Courtesy Marcelo Morales)

Based on the discovery of a 1907 manuscript, archaeologists are tracing the origin story of the only known surviving cem...
31/08/2024

Based on the discovery of a 1907 manuscript, archaeologists are tracing the origin story of the only known surviving cemí, a divine or ancestral spirit made by the Indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean, found in a cave outside of the town of Petitrou, now Enriquillo, in the Dominican Republic.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/digs-discoveries/a-taino-idols-origin-story/

(Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Turin)

A shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea may be the HMS Hawke, a Royal Navy warship sunk by a G...
30/08/2024

A shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea may be the HMS Hawke, a Royal Navy warship sunk by a German torpedo fired from a U-boat in October of 1914 at the start of World War I.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/23/wreckage-of-possible-world-war-i-warship-found-in-north-sea/

(Simon Kay/Lost In Waters Deep)

in A.D. 12, the third emperor of Rome, Caligula (reigned A.D. 37–41), was born. Read about the discovery of the Roman ...
30/08/2024

in A.D. 12, the third emperor of Rome, Caligula (reigned A.D. 37–41), was born. Read about the discovery of the Roman aqueduct Aqua Claudia—begun by Caligula in A.D. 38 and completed by his successor Roman emperor Claudius in A.D. 52—which delivered water to Rome, where it still stands.

archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2012/features/romes-lost-aqueduct/ -claudia

(Wikimedia Commons)

When archaeologists opened a 2,000-year-old glass burial urn discovered in a mausoleum in the ancient Roman city of Carm...
30/08/2024

When archaeologists opened a 2,000-year-old glass burial urn discovered in a mausoleum in the ancient Roman city of Carmo in southwestern Spain, they were astonished to find it filled to the brim with more than a gallon of liquid, which turned out to be ancient wine.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/digs-discoveries/a-nightcap-for-the-ages/

(Juan Manuel Román/University of Cordoba)

Researchers suggest that clovis points, the 13,000-year-old fluted projectiles found in North America and northern South...
29/08/2024

Researchers suggest that clovis points, the 13,000-year-old fluted projectiles found in North America and northern South America, may not have been thrown as spears by Clovis hunters, but instead attached to pikes braced in the ground to impale charging megafauna.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/23/how-did-clovis-hunters-bring-down-prey/

(Courtesy of Scott Byram)

The remains of two children, an adolescent, and an adult buried some 3,800 years ago with stone pendants and snail shell...
29/08/2024

The remains of two children, an adolescent, and an adult buried some 3,800 years ago with stone pendants and snail shells have been unearthed in a structure that may have been a temple at the site of Queneto located in northern Peru’s Virú Valley.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/22/3800-year-old-remains-of-four-people-unearthed-in-peru/

(National University of Trujillo)

in 1842, China signed the Treaty of Nanjing and ceded Hong Kong to Britain, opening trade ports and granting various B...
29/08/2024

in 1842, China signed the Treaty of Nanjing and ceded Hong Kong to Britain, opening trade ports and granting various British rights. In 2016, archaeologists discovered vestiges of the city's expansive waterway trade network, including a 19th century European cannon and a 1,000-year-old granite anchor stock—the oldest maritime artifact found in Chinese waters.

archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2016/world/?location=world-roundup-hong-kong-2

(Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group)

In the center of the Belgian city of Antwerp hidden within the earthen rampart of a 19th-century fortress, archaeologis...
29/08/2024

In the center of the Belgian city of Antwerp hidden within the earthen rampart of a 19th-century fortress, archaeologists unearthed a train wagon dated to 1935 or 1936 and inscribed with LNER for London North Eastern Railway, company based in York, England.

archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/digs-discoveries/moving-day/

(Courtesy LNER/Archaeological Service, City of Antwerp)

A 12-year-old boy in Chichester, England, discovered a Roman gold bracelet made that dates to the 1st century A.D. and i...
28/08/2024

A 12-year-old boy in Chichester, England, discovered a Roman gold bracelet made that dates to the 1st century A.D. and is known as an armilla-type bracelet awarded for feats of valor during Rome’s conquest of Britain in A.D. 43.

archaeology.org/news/2024/08/23/roman-gold-bracelet-discovered-in-southern-england/

(Chichester District Council)

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