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An Engraving Found in Central Spain Shows a Rider with the Oldest Documented Stirrup in the West, Advancing Its Use by More Than a Century
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (936+ words) A small brick fragment discovered at an archaeological site in the province of Cuenca in Spain is calling into question one of the most established theories about the military history of Europe. It is a crude but revealing engraving: the…...
Shipwrecks, Byzantine Anchors, and Port Remains Discovered North of the Greek Island of Karpathos
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (231+ words) The team also identified remains corresponding to ancient port installations, whose presence confirms the existence of infrastructure linked to navigation and maritime trade in different historical periods. Added to this assemblage are more than twenty Byzantine anchors, whose discovery acquires…...
The camp of the first Roman legions settled in Frankfurt is discovered, surprisingly without evidence of battles or confrontations
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (389+ words) The discovery, officially presented by Mayor Mike Josef and the director of the Department of Monuments, Andrea Hampel, took place in the Palastgarten, the garden surrounding the palace. The urban density of the present-day H'chst neighborhood made the intervention a…...
Substances Romans Burned as Offerings to the Gods Identified in Two Containers Found in Pompeii
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (901+ words) An international team of researchers has succeeded in identifying, for the first time, remains of aromatic resins imported into two incense burners found in Pompeii, providing new data on the domestic rituals that took place in the Roman city before…...
10 intact burial mounds from the late Neolithic discovered in Saxony with an unusual concentration of flint weapons and arrowheads
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (428+ words) A team of archaeologists from the Landesamt f'r Arch'ologie (LfA) has completed the excavation of a field of burial mounds in the Lau'nitzer Heide region in eastern Germany, whose finds place this site as the second most important cemetery of…...
Why Did Bronze Age Menorcans Avoid Seafood Despite Living on an Island? A Study Reveals the Paradox
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (607+ words) The Binadris cave, discovered in 2013 by local speleologists, is an exceptional site. Its difficult access, through a cliff, has allowed extraordinary preservation of organic materials spanning nearly eight hundred years of occupation, from 1300 to 500 before our era. Inside, archaeologists have…...
A warrior of the steppes in 5th-century Hispania: the first representation of an Alan horseman in the Iberian Peninsula during the fall of the Roman Empire
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (679+ words) A team of archaeologists and historians has proposed a new reading of an enigmatic slate found in Salamanca that could change the understanding of the presence of nomadic peoples in the Iberian Peninsula during the fall of the Roman Empire....
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6+ day, 10+ hour ago (29+ words) The coin buried in 1584 during the founding of Rey Don Felipe in the Strait of Magellan, the city whose colonists died of starvation, has been found'La Br'jula Verde...
The cargo of a Roman vessel loaded with olive oil amphorae from the Iberian Peninsula discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (338+ words) The richness and diversity of the recovered goods have led archaeologists to classify this assemblage as extraordinary. The need to act urgently prompted the first excavation campaign in March 2025, aimed at evaluating the site's potential and, above all, safeguarding the…...
Altar with offerings including skulls and bones discovered in Tula, the ancient capital of the Toltecs
1+ week, 1+ day ago (284+ words) During archaeological salvage work along the route of the Mexico City'Quer'taro Passenger Train, carried out by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered a momoztli or altar,…...