Historic 3,000-year-old olive tree still producing olives to this day The oldest olive tree in the world is located in the village of Ano Vouves of Kissamos in Chania, Crete, Greece. The ancient tree is 3000 years old, as determined by the international scientific community. The ancient olive tree in Vouves has a trunk with …

Norway Couple Find Viking Age Grave Under Their House A Norwegian couple got quite the shock when renovating their old family house near Bodø in northern Norway this month. After removing the floorboards and some sand with the intention to install insulation, the couple discovered several rocks. They continued digging and spotted something glittering in …

A 3,400-year-old Minoan tomb has been uncovered in an unnamed farmer’s olive grove near Ierapetra on the Greek island of Crete The untouched Bronze Age tomb and the skeletons inside will hopefully provide archaeologists with information about the mysterious Minoan civilization. In an extraordinary example of being in the wrong place at the right time, …

Iron Age necropolis that predates Rome unearthed near Naples An ancient necropolis discovered near Naples, Italy was used to bury the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ about 2,800 years ago, around the time the city of Rome was founded about 100 miles (161 kilometers) to the northwest. The discovery gives researchers a rare insight into the Iron Age cultures …

Stone Inscribed With Ireland’s Ogham Script Found in England A geography teacher was tidying his overgrown garden at his home in Coventry, England, when he stumbled across a rock with mysterious incisions. Intrigued, he sent pH๏τographs to a local archaeologist and was taken aback to learn that the markings were created more than 1,600 years …

A new chapter in the Hitтιтe world is revealed by painted hieroglyphs discovered in the Hattusa Yerkapı tunnel The painted hieroglyphs discovered in 2022 in the Yerkapı Tunnel in Hattusa, the capital of the Hitтιтes, one of the first civilizations of Anatolia, were introduced at a conference held at the Culture and Promotion Consultancy of Turkey’s Embᴀssy …

Archaeology team discovers a 7,000-year-old settlement in Serbia Together with cooperation partners from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia), the National Museum Zrenjanin and the National Museum Pančevo, a team from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence has discovered a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. “This discovery …

Archaeologists unearth Greek helmet which may rewrite history of ancient tribal people Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Greek helmet from burial mounds in southern Croatia, shedding new light on the history of the Illyrians, a tribal people from the eastern Adriatic and the Balkans. Near the village of Zakotorac on the Peljesac peninsula, approximately 70 …

Ancient Roman graves with funerary festival evidence discovered in southern France Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling ancient Roman cemetery in southern France containing 1,430 graves and evidence of funerary banquets held in honor of deceased family members. Excavations of the cemetery, called the Robine necropolis due to its proximity to a canal of the same …