Did Romans Eat Special Foods at Funerals? In the 1950s, a Roman necropolis (or cemetery) was found in the centre of Barcelona, hailing from the second and third centuries AD. The site – Plaça de la Vila de Madrid – was excavated again between 2000 and 2003, when a funerary complex of about 500 square …

Padlocked, restrained female ‘vampire’ discovered in 17th-century graveyard The remains of a “female vampire” have been uncovered by archaeologists at a 17th-century graveyard in Pień, Poland. Professor Dariusz Poliński and a team of researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University were conducting the dig when they discovered the skeletal remains of the woman, who had been pinned …

Carvings Discovered at Ireland’s Grange Stone Circle An Irish archaeological pH๏τographer has discovered a remarkable series of prehistoric carvings at the Grange Stone Circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick.  Ken Williams, a leading Irish archaeological pH๏τographer, has developed methods of lighting stones so that they can be pH๏τographed to maximum effect, allowing him to find …

Rare silver coins minted by Viking king Harald Bluetooth were found in Finland In May of 2022, Finnish metal detectorists discovered a silver cache from the Viking Age in a field in Mynämäki, a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region. The follow-up excavations carried out by the Finnish Heritage Agency uncovered silver …

1400-Year-Old Folding Chair Found in a Woman’s Grave in Germany Archaeologists have made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair has been discovered in a woman’s grave. The excavation team unearthed the chair in a woman’s grave in Steinsfeld in Central Franconia in the Ansbach district. Franconia lies in the north of the Free …

Huge dinosaur skeleton unearthed in Portuguese garden Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilized skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe. The remains are thought to be those of a sauropod, a herbivorous dinosaur 12 meters (39 feet) tall and 25 meters long that roamed the Earth around 150 million …

Huge Megalithic 7,000-Year-Old Site Dolmen Of Guadalperal Emerges From Dry Lake In Spain This summer’s H๏τ weather has been extremely troublesome in many European countries. Spain suffered the worst drought in decades. An unexpected side-effect of the warm weather has been discovering unknown archaeological sites. One of them is a mysterious megalithic monument that emerged …

Viking-Era Arrowhead Discovered in Norway “Oh, look at this little beauty”, the team of archaeologists enthusiastically exclaim in their Facebook update, which includes a video of the three-bladed arrowhead. “The last person who touched it was a Viking,” the post reads. The team of glacial archaeologists from Innlandet county’s Secrets of the Ice and the …

Mᴀssive Roman Phallus Relief Carving Uncovered in Spain A large Roman-era relief carving of a phallus was uncovered by archaeologists excavating in Nueva Carteya, Córdoba, Spain, earlier this month, according to an announcement by the area’s local history museum. At more than one-and-a-half feet long, it could be the largest preserved Roman phallus carving, according …