14+ hour, 35+ min ago   (644+ words) A pair of 1,500-year-old “golden shoes” found in the grave of an elite woman in western Kazakhstan is offering a striking glimpse into the wealth, craftsmanship and long-distance connections of communities living along the Caspian Sea during the post-Hunnic period....

16+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1045+ words) The possibility sounds extraordinary. The earliest documented telescope is generally associated with the Netherlands in 1608, when spectacle maker Hans Lippershey sought a patent for an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. Yet the Nimrud Lens was manufactured between about…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (611+ words) The Oseberg ship burial is one of the most important Viking Age discoveries in Norway. It dates to the ninth century and was found in a burial mound near the Oslo Fjord. Inside the ship, archaeologists found many valuable objects,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (478+ words) Archaeologists in southern Tajikistan have uncovered a rare Kushan royal seal made of fired clay, a discovery that could provide new evidence for how political authority and administration operated in one of ancient Central Asia’s most commercially connected regions. The…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (427+ words) A curved wooden weapon discovered at an Iron Age settlement on the coast of Normandy is offering an unusual glimpse into hunting and ritual life in ancient Europe. Dating to around 120–80 BC, the object closely resembles what we would now…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (842+ words) Archaeologists have reopened a Viking Age ship burial on Norway’s western coast and uncovered evidence of a much older grave beneath it. The discovery suggests that people used the site for burials centuries before Vikings placed a ship inside the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1094+ words) Looting is one of the biggest threats to archaeological sites, and detecting it is not always easy. A site that was secretly dug up overnight may look like nothing more than disturbed soil, both from the ground and even in…...

2+ day, 20+ min ago   (822+ words) Construction workers renovating a building in the Belgian city of Dendermonde have uncovered an extraordinary hidden cache containing more than 40 gold bars and at least 4,000 old coins, apparently concealed inside a chest built into a cellar wall. The discovery was…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1152+ words) A tiny stone offering table from a Minoan mountaintop sanctuary may preserve something far larger than its size suggests: possible evidence that Dionysos and Demeter had religious predecessors on Crete centuries before they became familiar gods of the Greek world....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (744+ words) What looked like a collection of old wooden boards in the ceiling of a cellar in southern Germany has turned out to be something far more unusual: the remains of an almost complete medieval ship hull. The discovery was made…...