Europe’s oldest known bowstrings discovered in Spanish cave
A study led by researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has unveiled the oldest known bowstrings in Europe. Artifacts discovered in the Cueva de Los…
6th century BCE shipwreck discovered off Sicily
In the shallow waters of Santa Maria del Focallo, near Ispica in Sicily, archaeologists have uncovered a 2,500-year-old shipwreck alongside six ancient anchors. The discovery was conducted…
14-kilogram Roman chainmail found near Bonn reveals local craftworkers’ role in armor repair
A 14-kilogram cache of Roman mail armor, unearthed in 2012 during excavations in a civilian settlement (vicus) near the Roman legionary fortress in Bonn, Germany, has been…
Stone Age family killed in house fire 6,000 years ago, study reveals
A recent interdisciplinary study of ancient human remains from Kosenivka, Ukraine, has revealed new insights into the lives and deaths of individuals from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a…
Homo juluensis: Scientists discovered a new species of archaic human
A team of paleoanthropologists, led by Christopher J. Bae from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Xiujie Wu from the Insтιтute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology…
Neanderthal-human interbreeding: A 7,000-year genetic legacy uncovered
Two new studies published in Science and Nature have provided unprecedented insights into the period when ancient humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals interbred. By analyzing 59 ancient…
Silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt grave Is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps
Archaeologists have uncovered a groundbreaking artifact in a 3rd-century Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, which provides the earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The…
Researchers finally uncover how to play the 4,000-year-old Shahr-i Sokhta board game
In 1977, archaeologists excavating the Bronze Age cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta in southeastern Iran unearthed an extraordinary relic: a 4,500-year-old board game buried in a richly adorned…
Golden tongues discovered on mummies from the Ptolemaic period in Al-Bahnasa, Egypt
A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission, spearheaded by the University of Barcelona and the Insтιтute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, has made remarkable finds from the Ptolemaic era…
Butchered bones reveal cannibalism and violent ‘othering’ in Bronze Age Britain
Archaeological research has uncovered the largest-scale evidence of interpersonal violence in British prehistory at Charterhouse Warren in Somerset, England. The remains of at least 37 individuals, including…