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Not All Roads Lead To Rome: Study Challenges What We Think We Know About Roman Roads
34+ min ago (448+ words) Roman road CREDIT: Queen Mary University of London A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark, Queen Mary University of London, and other European institutions analysed a dataset representing almost 300,000 kilometres of Roman roads across the former empire,…...
18,000-year-old Ice Age artists used natural mammoth tusk patterns in their art | Archaeology News Online Magazine
8+ min ago (506+ words) A study of 18 female figurines from Mizyn in northern Ukraine shows how Ice Age artists used mammoth ivory in their work. The carvers studied the material closely and built parts of their engraved designs around natural lines inside the tusks....
Grisly discovery from legendary Roman emperor's reign reveals soldiers' remains, weapons
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (731+ words) Archaeologists in western Slovakia uncovered an ancient Roman military camp dating to the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. (Matej Ruttkay/nstitute of Archaeology of the SAS) An ancient Roman military camp tied to the era of a legendary emperor has…...
The People Rome Left Behind
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (311+ words) “The Romans left Britain” is one of those sentences that sounds clearer than the event it describes. Rome did leave, if by Rome we mean the western imperial state: its tax system, military command, regular coin supply and the administrative…...
5,000-year-old drainage network, workshop-houses unearthed in W. Türkiye (Xinhua - English)
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (259+ words) The findings were uncovered at Liman Tepe in Urla, a 5,300-year-old Bronze Age port city known for hosting both land settlements and Türkiye's first underwater harbor excavations, according to Vasif Sahoglu, head of the excavation team and director of Ankara…...
Honduras Turns Lasers on Copán’s Hidden Maya Past Before More History Disappears
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Switzerland returns 3,000-year-old mask to Egypt
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (241+ words) SWI swissinfo.ch Switzerland returns 3,000-year-old mask to Egypt An Egyptian death mask dating from the second century BC has been returned from Switzerland to Egypt. It had been seized in Switzerland as part of criminal proceedings. Interior Minister Elisabeth…...
Greece Ancient Cemetery
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (76+ words) GazetteXtra Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks during a ceremony inaugurating upgrades and restoration work at the ancient Kerameikos cemetery, in Athens, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. Water main break on Milton Ave. results in road closures CHS says it will break ground…...
In 1940, 17-Year-Old Boy Found a Cave in France with About 2,000 Paintings and Over 6,000 Figures Dating Back Up to 19,000 Years
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (803+ words) A hole near a fallen tree led four French teenagers to the Lascaux cave in September 1940. Inside, they found approximately 2,000 paintings, with over 6,000 figures, created between 17,000 and 19,000 years ago and preserved for millennia. On September 12, 1940, Marcel Ravidat, a 17-year-old mechanic’s…...
Seminary students, leaders help identify WWII remains
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (307+ words) This summer, an excavation team with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s Michael and Sara Moskau Institute of Archaeology traveled to Italy to search for the remains of fallen World War II soldiers. The project was a partnership among multiple institutions…...