Isotope analyses unlock Iron Age secrets According to a statement released by Flinders University, chemical analysis of 2,600-year-old copper ingots discovered off the coast of southwest France in 1964 indicates they came from a variety of locations. For the first time, a scientific team led by Flinders University archaeologists, working with the Insтιтute of History …

1,600-Year-Old Flute and Key Unearthed in Turkey A 1,600-year-old flute and bronze ring with a key have been unearthed during excavations in the 3,000-year-old Zerzevan Castle, located in the Çınar district of Diyarbakır and which served as the last garrison of the Roman Empire in the east. The castle is on the UNESCO World Heritage …

Viking Longhouses Detected Near Norway’s Gjellestad Ship Norwegian archaeologists said Monday they have found a cluster of longhouses, including one of the largest in Scandinavia, using ground-penetrating radar in the southeastern part of the country — in an area that researchers believe was a central place in the late Nordic Iron Age. The longhouses — …

Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there’s a chariot inside. A lavish ‘Princely tomb’ belonging to an Iron Age man was found in Italy full of treasures including a bronze helmet, weapons and a whole chariot. The tomb of a pre-Roman prince has been saved from ‘imminent’ destruction after aerial …

Mysterious Papyrus found Indside a Hidden “Crypt in Agia Sophia: What do they say? The reason for identifying this special find was the observation of a Muslim believer who went to Hagia Sophia to pray (UNESCO condemned Turkey’s court decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque). The Muslim saw that a stone about 10 …

Skull 5 – A Million Years Old Human Skull Forced Scientists To Rethink Early Human Evolution Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus — Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis, for example. But an amazing new skull found …

Traces of Medieval Madrᴀssa Uncovered in Turkey The ruins of a 12th-century madrᴀssa (Islamic school) have been discovered in Turkey’s southeast, one of the world’s oldest settlements on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, said the archaeologist leading the dig. Excavation work has been going on for eight years in the Harran settlement in the …

Origins of Japanese and Turkish language family traced back 9000 years A study combining linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence has traced the origins of the family of languages including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian and the people who speak them to millet farmers who inhabited a region in northeastern China about 9,000 years ago. …

Archaeologists identify oldest Muslim graves ever found in Europe An archaeological site in northeast Spain holds one of the oldest-known Muslim cemeteries in the country, with the discovery of 433 graves, some dating back to the first 100 years of the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.  The finds confirm that the region, along the …