Intact Amphora Recovered Off Croatia’s Coast Total Croatia News reports that a table jug for serving wine and a utensil for straining it was found in the Adriatic Sea, near Croatia’s Paklinski Islands and the entrance to the harbour city of Hvar. The pottery was exposed through the loss of seagrᴀsses. As Morski writes on …

Pre-Roman Prince’s Tomb Packed With Treasures Found in Italy In a recently uncovered Iron Age cemetery in central Italy, archaeologists have found the remnants of an entire iron-wheeled war chariot, a recent study finds. The lavish tomb is also brimming with other riches, including a stash of weapons, a bronze helmet and vessels made of …

34,000 years old: Explorer claims evidence of pyramid found in Bosnia Although the number of visitors and scientific evidence of their presence is yet to be discovered in the polemical pyramids of Bosnia, and the majority of the excavations are undertaken by volunteers led by Emir Osmanagic, also known as the Bosnian Indiana Jones The Bosnian …

Early Christian Church Unearthed in Turkey A building featuring 20 columned corridors arranged around a courtyard has been discovered next to a theatre in southwestern Turkey’s ancient city of Laodicea, according to a Hurriyet Daily News report. Celal Şimşek of Pamukkale University said the structure was used as a home, as a place of business, …

Iron Age Site Found in Scotland The Scotsman reports that researchers have discovered traces of 23 structures dated to as early as 800 B.C. on heavily ploughed land in eastern Scotland, near the coast of the North Sea, ahead of a construction project. The study is now continuing to decide whether the site has a …

World War II Execution Site Investigated in Poland Dawid Kobiałka of the Polish Academy of Sciences, with the ᴀssistance of an 88-year-old eyewitness, has found personal belongings, bullets, and charred human bone, including fragments of skulls, teeth, femurs, and a vertebra, just under the surface of the ground in an area of northern Poland dubbed …

Archaeologists Discover 3,500-Year-Old “Griffin Warrior” Tomb Full of Treasures Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker, archaeologists in UC’s classics department, found the two beehive-shaped tombs in Pylos, Greece, last year while investigating the area around the grave of an individual they have called the “Griffin Warrior,” a Greek man whose final resting place they discovered nearby …

Pit of Amputated arms in France from 6,000 years ago suggest war and trophy taking 6,000 years ago, a circular pit with the bodies of seven people on a bed with seven arms sheds fresh light on violent disputes. Experts claim the gruesome discovery tells the tale of a devastating raid on a settlement in eastern …

Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing A Recent Scientist article by Alison George – Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing – reports on the painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art which has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and …