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www.anatolianarchaeology.net/4000-year-ol... The brick later became part of a house wall, where the impressions remained until a fire destroyed the building.

theconversation.com/robert-egger... As they vanished from English shores due to sustained hunting, the werewolf myth moved abroad. The creature changed from a pitiable victim into a diabolical killer.

cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/roman-cultiv... Despite dozens of excavations it has never been clear exactly what crops were being grown in these extensive Roman ditched field systems. A new publication suggests that their primary purpose was not as planting beds but as marling trenches.

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn... Nowhere is Herculaneum’s affluence more apparent than in the Villa of the Papyri. In 1750, inside this remarkable estate, archaeologists unearthed a vast library of ancient scrolls.

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn... Nowhere is Herculaneum’s affluence more apparent than in the Villa of the Papyri. In 1750, inside this remarkable estate, archaeologists unearthed a vast library of ancient scrolls.

theconversation.com/unlocking-th... It showed a distinctive combination of a very large brain size, a massive brow-ridge and a large, low but rather smooth braincase without the other bony ridges found in erectus and heidelbergensis skulls.

www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-... Archaeologists have now found traces of many large boathouses – ship houses – along the Norwegian coast facing the North Sea and Skagerrak. These have been dated to between the years 180 and 540.

www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/m... The limestone sarcophagus was excavated in 1869. It bears an inscription to Valerius Amandinus but also sculpted on the lid is a Latin cross dating from the 10th or 11th century, suggesting that the human remains inside might belong to an Anglo-Saxon.

midlothianview.com/news/restore... The 19th-century sculptures have been returned to the area near their original home, where the City of Edinburgh Council has installed them within its new affordable housing development at Silverlea.

www.iflscience.com/neanderthal-... The results point to a date of around 46,000 years old, meaning this Neanderthal was among the last of his kind in this part of Europe, living just a few thousand years before the whole group went extinct.

www.mpg.de/26898913/nea... Modern humans inherited this version of the receptor through interbreeding with Neandertals around 47,000 years ago. Today, up to 24 percent of people in some South Asian populations carry it, compared with around 0.5 percent of Europeans.

www.rte.ie/news/newslen... The team discovered he was likely to have been in his early 50s when he died at Inveresk, sometime between AD 140–165. Analysis of his skeleton found that during his life he suffered several injuries and was certainly not a soldier at the time of his death.

www.medievalists.net/2026/10/medi... Results revealed that lead exposure was already substantial in the seventh century. Of the 15 medieval individuals examined, 14 had lead concentrations exceeding 10 parts per million in their tooth enamel, while four had concentrations above 40 parts per million.

blog.historicenvironment.scot/2026/10/the-... The collection contained more than 800 fragments from a wide range of animals. Cattle, horse, pig, sheep/goat, cat, rabbit, red deer, weasel and bird, were identified alongside some unidentified large and small mammal bones.

www.sciencealert.com/2200-year-ol... Only 45 percent of the fingerprints, according to the model, were likely made by adult men. Another 32.7 percent were attributed to adult women. And the remaining 22.3 percent were attributed to children under the age of 15.

www.newarab.com/news/egyptia... The discovery was made in Behbeit El-Hagar, a village in Egypt's northern Nile Delta, after Khaled El-Shahat Khalil came across an inscribed stone block while working on a plot of land in front of his house.

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nean... A circular hole in a 75,000-year-old scapula suggests lethal conflict involving sharpened wooden spears among Neanderthals in the Middle East. The remains also show evidence of a brutal facial injury at least a year before death.

news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/09... In July, Flinders University led Project Pozières, a rare archaeological excavation of the Somme battlefield in northern France, marking the 110th anniversary of the 1916 battle.

theconversation.com/why-indiana-... Indiana Jones would struggle to obtain a modern excavation permit. Most archaeological breakthroughs occur far from collapsing temples – in comparative analysis, in computational reevaluation of legacy datasets, in the slow refinement of scholarly consensus.

scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news... Researchers tentatively date the building to the late 1st century CE. It may have been a temple or a funerary structure designed to resemble a temple, a type of building known from Syria, Egypt and Asia Minor.

www.sciencealert.com/archaeologis... In a recent dig at a significant Neanderthal site in Barcelona, Abric Romaní, archaeologists have unearthed a massive cache of wood imprints, several of which appear to be tools.

www.khm.uio.no/english/news... Olaf Haraldsson occupies a unique place in Norwegian history. Fewer than 20 of his coins have survived to the present day, and most have been found outside Norway.

www.sciencenorway.no/ice-age-arch... The Ice Age artists structured their carvings according to the natural lines visible in mammoth ivory. This has become much clearer now that researchers have been able to use advanced digital tools.

archaeologymag.com/2026/10/seco... The group of objects in the Blyth Hoard is small. It includes two bronze axe-heads and several clay moulds. Researchers think some of these were used to cast the bronze fittings in the Peebles Hoard.

www.turkishminute.com/2026/10/09/3... Some of the texts describe an illness marked by high fever that spread from city to city, killing children and infants. The royal family turned to diviners to learn what would happen to sick princes and princesses.

gulfnews.com/world/bronze... The engraving resembles the way the lighthouse appears on coins struck in Alexandria during the 2nd century AD, which suggests the ring likely dates to around that period.

www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-... Alongside the already known stone circles, archaeologists have now uncovered what they believe to be additional stone circles that had remained hidden beneath the topsoil. The discovery was made in a new area near known as the West Field.

arkeonews.net/a-2600-year-... The newly excavated grave contained an unusually complete assemblage of military equipment. Archaeologists recovered a bronze helmet, a shield, a sword, and several spears alongside bronze vessels, a silver pin, amber and glass beads, a gold ring, and other objects.

www.anatolianarchaeology.net/1000-year-ol... John I Tzimiskes came to power in 969 and ruled for only about seven years, but his reign marked an important period of Byzantine military expansion.

www.anatolianarchaeology.net/unusual-roma... That combination recalls the suovetaurilium, a Roman ritual in which these three animals were sacrificed together during ceremonies connected with purification, consecration or the ritual marking of space.

www.medievalists.net/2026/10/khme... In the late 12th century, King Jayavarman VII (1181–1218) embarked on ambitious building programmes. He constructed temples, roads, rest houses etc. Among his most remarkable projects was a network of 102 āryogyaśāla, or “houses of health”.

www.chester.ac.uk/about/news/a... Finds from across the site, including pottery, coins, animal bones, building materials and painted wall plaster, point to a community with considerable wealth and connections to wider Roman trade networks.

scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news... The Tauchira Gate stands in the ancient city of Ptolemais and was one of the most important cities of Cyrenaica, a region on the northern coast of Africa that came under the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty after the conquests of Alexander the Great.

www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-... Gallery graves are associated with the period when early farming culture finally gained a foothold in Norway.

www.ucd.ie/newsandopini... Historical sources suggest the old castle was built within living memory of the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 and was altered several times during the Middle Ages.

www.medievalists.net/2026/10/angl... The finds suggest the Schola Saxonum was not simply a stopping place for pilgrims, but a thriving neighbourhood where Anglo-Saxons worked, traded and may even have enjoyed the unusual privilege of using English money.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... What the islanders discovered were extensive burial grounds, decorated stonework and early buildings – all the features belonging to a major sixth-century monastery, comparable to the much better known site of Iona a little to the south-west.

www.gu.se/en/news/new-... The findings challenge traditional assumptions about mobility and migration in prehistoric societies. Previous research has often suggested that women were more likely to move between communities, particularly through marriage in patrilineal societies.

news.berkeley.edu/2026/09/25/t... More accurate and precise argon-argon dating will be invaluable in calibrating radiocarbon dating, which is the dominant method of attaching dates to materials such as wood that are younger than about 55,000 years.

arkeonews.net/a-skeleton-r... The discovery at Qinngua, near Narsarsuaq, marks the first identification of a new Norse church in Greenland in more than 60 years.

arkeonews.net/10000-year-o... A new study draws on evidence from two burials and the natural processes that affected the skeletons after death.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... Researchers, practitioners, heritage professionals and students responded by leaving their comments on nearly 100 sticky notes, creating a wall of thoughts and ideas that highlighted the challenges and opportunities shaping archaeology today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The find suggests possible trading routes between Viking-controlled Shetland with Anglo-Saxons in England, or that it could be treasure from a Norse raid.

www.sciencealert.com/huge-haul-of... Thousands of animal remains lay with broken stone points, traces of fire, and red ochre. At least 20 mammoths had ended up in one place.

www.euronews.com/culture/2026... The discovery of the new agora, together with the uncovering of a paved road leading to the southern gate and Iron Age ceramics, challenges the accepted historical narrative of a long phase in which the city stood empty.

www.medievalists.net/2026/09/earl... Among the finds is an unfinished shale finger ring, known as a roughout, which was abandoned before the manufacturing process was completed.

theconversation.com/history-is-b... Previous research by the Oued Beht Archaeological Project had already brought to light what is likely the earliest and largest agricultural complex ever discovered in Africa outside the Nile Valley. It dates to around 5,400 to 4,900 years ago.

www.sciencenorway.no/.../we-dont-... There are no nameplates, texts or name tags that tell who lies within Norway's large burial mounds.

ancientist.com/before-roman... The underground structure was discovered at Monteleone Sabino in the province of Rieti, about 50 kilometers northeast of Rome.

ancientist.com/roman-settle... The excavation covers approximately 500 square meters between Via Mastri and a nearby watercourse. Archaeologists have so far identified six rooms belonging to a masonry structure built during the second century AD.