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Byzantine Ballista Bolts from the 11th Century Found at the Manzikert Site, Used in the Siege Prior to the 1071 Battle

The systematic excavations that have been underway since 2020 in the plain of Manzikert (in Turkish Malazgirt), in eastern ...
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Discovery Shows Lead Was Worked in the Iberian Peninsula During the Bronze Age 1,800 Years Before the Phoenicians Arrived

A discovery at the Minferri site, in the town of Juneda in Lleida, has completely upended the established chronology for lead ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

The publication in the journal PNAS Nexus of new evidence from Malta has shaken the foundations of what was believed about the maritime capabilities of the last hunter-gatherers in Europe. The ...
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Emerald Tablet, the enigmatic text that revealed the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone

The Emerald Tablet in an anonymous painting from 1606. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Follow us on Google News and be the first to read the latest news on archaeological and scientific ...
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A New Forensic Approach to the Shroud of Turin: Science Reveals Biological Clues Without Dating Its Origin

The Shroud of Turin, one of the most studied and controversial relics of Christianity, has been subjected to a new scientific scrutiny that, without resolving the debate on its chronology or ...
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Elevated Roads That Seem to Lead Nowhere Found in an Iron Age Fort in Western England

A team of archaeologists and students from the University of Birmingham has begun the first excavation work at the site known as Wall Camp, an Iron Age fort located on the Shropshire plain in western ...
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Archaeologists Discover 7,000-Year-Old Fish Traps in the Norwegian Mountains

The fish traps at Lake Tesse, with sections of the Stone Age settlement area visible in the background. Credit: Axel Mjærum et al. 2026 The discovery, published in the journal Antiquity, has allowed ...
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Roman camp with inscribed projectiles discovered, marking the exact site of the repression of the Cerretan revolt in 39 B.C.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have documented at Collet de Jovell, within the municipality of Urús in the province of Lleida, a collection of archaeological materials ...
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Bartolomeo Colleoni, the mercenary with three pairs of “coglioni”

Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice, by Andrea del Verrocchio. Credit: Didier Descouens / Wikimedia Commons Verrocchio made the model in wax, but he died before casting it in bronze, ...
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Findings at the Capo Mulini Shipwreck, Sunk in the Late 2nd Century BC, Rewrite the Map of Republican Sicily’s Trade Routes

The waters of the maritime stretch between Acireale and Aci Castello, on the eastern coast of Sicily, have revealed a new chapter in the seafaring history of the Mediterranean. The conclusion of the ...
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A Rare Geological Phenomenon Observed from Space: 1.4 Cubic Kilometers of Magma Moved 50 Kilometers Inside the Earth’s Crust

Satellite monitoring has allowed an international team of scientists to follow in real time the evolution of an ...
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The Antikythera Ephebe, the Greek statue that still gazes at something that disappeared two thousand years ago

It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving ...