14th-century sarcophagus found at fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral The discovery was made as maintenance crews were preparing to install scaffolding before restoring the spire of the 800-year-old cathedral, which survived a huge fire in the spring of 2019. French archaeologists conducting excavations in Notre Dame Cathedral found several burials made no later than the 18th …

The Trailblazing Archaeologist Uncovering the Untold Stories of Prehistoric Skeletons Archaeology has always fascinated Efthymia Nikita. She was drawn to the mystery and joy of uncovering the buried past. In her first year of archaeology studies at the Aristotle University, in Thessaloniki, she happily joined a six-week dig at a Neolithic – late Stone Age …

Excavation of Byzantine shipwreck in Aegean reveals 5th-century ceramics Excavations of a Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Samos have revealed that the ship and its contents likely date to some time between 480 and 520 AD, the Greek Culture Ministry announced. The shipwreck is located in the sea near the small …

New Technology Employed to Protect Pompeii A four-legged robot called Spot has been deployed to wander around the ruins of ancient Pompeii, identifying structural and safety issues while delving underground to inspect tunnels dug by relic thieves. The dog-like robot is the latest in a series of technologies used as part of a broader project …

Unknown symbols are written by the lost ‘painted people’ of Scotland unearthed What seemed like an eventful evening turned into an emotional discovery for the history books after archaeologists in Scotland came upon a stone covered with ancient geometric carvings. The symbols were etched in stone by the Picts, Scotland’s indigenous people, about 1,500 years …

Log Boats Recovered from River in Northern Ireland History lies beneath the riverbeds of northwest Ireland. Every so often, when conditions allow, archaeologists are rewarded with another offering from the distant past. Two more boats understood to be from the medieval era, have emerged from the River Foyle. The boats, known as longboats or dugout …

Cats and babies: Thousand-year-old mummies in Turkey’s Aksaray Cat, baby and adult mummies in Aksaray, the gateway to Cappadocia with its historical cultural riches and known as the first settlement of Central Anatolia, have been enchanting visitors at a museum where they are on display. At the Aksaray Museum, which houses Turkey’s first and only …

Farmer Finds 3,300-year-old Rare Hitтιтe Bracelet in Field in Turkey A man ploughing his farm in Turkey’s central Çorum province discovered a rare 3,300-year-old ancient bracelet from the Hitтιтe era. The farmer, who lives in the Çitli village of Mecitözü district, found the bracelet while he was working on the farm and brought the ancient …

Study Explores Mobility in Early Medieval Scotland Isotope analysis of ‘bodies in the bog’ found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of miles from their place of birth. For decades, the skeletal remains of nine adults and five infants found in the latrine of what was once a …