Stunning Roman-looking sandals found deep in the snow in the Norwegian mountains Global warming is leading to the retreat of mountain glaciers. Incredibly well preserved and rare artefacts have emerged from melting glaciers and ice patches in North America, the Alps, and Scandinavia. Team Secrets of the Ice has been searching for clues about the …

‘Theodoric the Great’ villa mosaic found near Verona in Italy A section of the ancient Roman mosaic flooring from the 5th century AD villa of Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great has been discovered near the northern Italian city of Verona. The mosaic was found during digging to replace gas pipes at Montorio outside Verona. There …

Archaeology breakthrough as Christopher Columbus’ first tomb found: ‘We got it!’ The burial site of Columbus has been a mystery for some time. He was initially left to rest in Valladolid, a city in northwest Spain, three years after his death in 1506. However, the exact location of this first tomb has never been confirmed, …

Ireland’s Peat Bogs Preserve Sacrificial Bodies & Artefacts Ireland is famous for its peat bogs – peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. They are the most efficient carbon sink on earth and cover 1.4 million square miles of the earth. They also tend to preserve bodies and artefacts that wind …

Does Composition of Roman Coins Reflect Currency Crisis? New scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has brought fresh understanding to a financial crisis briefly mentioned by the Roman statesman and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero in his essay on moral leadership, De Officiis, and solved a longstanding historical debate. Researchers at the University of …

Researchers Reconstruct Likenesses From 400-Year-Old Bones The bust of an elderly man and digital images of a young woman and a young man are the results of research conducted on human skulls found in an early medieval stronghold. The appearance of the former inhabitants of Upper Lusatia was recreated by anthropologists, archaeologists and visual artists. …

‘Folded’ iron sword found in a Roman soldier’s grave was part of a pagan ritual An iron sword deliberately bent as part of a pagan ritual has been discovered in a Roman soldier’s grave in Greece, an archaeologist has revealed. The deformed or ‘folded’ sword was buried with an as yet unidentified soldier about 1,600 years ago …

Turkish experts find 4 Umayyad epigraphs in the ancient city Knidos Four inscriptions made of marble and limestone from the Umayyad period have been unearthed during the archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Knidos in the western province of Muğla’s Datça district. The excavations have been carried out in the ancient city under the …

Ancient, underground Etruscan pyramids spotted in Italy The first-ever Etruscan pyramids have been located underneath a wine cellar in the city of Orvieto in central Italy, according to a team of U.S. and Italian archaeologists. Carved into the rock of the tufa plateau — a sedimentary area that is a result of volcanic activity — …