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A Rare Cimmerian Horse Harness Surfaces at Ukraine’s Kartal Hillfort
Archaeology
A Rare Cimmerian Horse Harness Surfaces at Ukraine’s Kartal Hillfort
After 27 years excavating Ukraine's multi-layered Kartal hillfort, archaeologist Ihor Bruyako has finally found something new:…
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Roman Mass Grave Under a Vienna Field Reveals Pelvic Wounds
Archaeology
Roman Mass Grave Under a Vienna Field Reveals Pelvic Wounds
A Roman-era mass grave found beneath a Vienna soccer field holds around 150 young men who…
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AI Finally Read a 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll in Full
Archaeology
AI Finally Read a 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll in Full
Using X-ray scanning and machine learning, the Vesuvius Challenge fully read a carbonized Herculaneum scroll for…
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Pompeii Victim Found Fleeing With Bowl, Lamp, and Coins
Archaeology
Pompeii Victim Found Fleeing With Bowl, Lamp, and Coins
Archaeologists excavating the Porta Stabia necropolis outside Pompeii found two men who died trying to flee…
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Mercury or Victoria? A Vanished Roman Relic’s Lingering Mystery
Archaeology
Mercury or Victoria? A Vanished Roman Relic’s Lingering Mystery
A rediscovered 1938 photograph from Germany's mysterious Kneblinghausen Roman camp shows an engraved lead relic that…
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Danube Drought Reveals a Roman Altar and a Wartime Grenade
Archaeology
Danube Drought Reveals a Roman Altar and a Wartime Grenade
Record-low Danube water levels near Dunaujvaros, Hungary, have exposed a Roman altar to Jupiter and inscribed…
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How a Sanctuary to Apollo, Lord of Mice, Became a Christian Farm
Archaeology
How a Sanctuary to Apollo, Lord of Mice, Became a Christian Farm
Archaeologists at Turkiye's Apollon Smintheus Sanctuary have uncovered a 1,500-year-old mortar and storage jars showing that…
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2,000-Year-Old Roman Road Found Beneath New German Highway
Archaeology
2,000-Year-Old Roman Road Found Beneath New German Highway
Archaeologists in southwestern Germany have uncovered a 90-metre stretch of the Alblimes Road, a nearly 2,000-year-old…
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14 Sites, Three Empires: What Road Works Found Near Erbil
Archaeology
14 Sites, Three Empires: What Road Works Found Near Erbil
Two road projects near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan Region have exposed 14 previously unknown archaeological sites…
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Rome Fed a Million People. Climate Was Not the Main Threat.
Archaeology
Rome Fed a Million People. Climate Was Not the Main Threat.
A study comparing 55 documented food shortages in ancient Rome with palaeoclimatic reconstructions found no consistent…
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At Perperikon, the Dead Lined the Road to the City
Archaeology
At Perperikon, the Dead Lined the Road to the City
At Perperikon in southern Bulgaria, an eleventh circular Late Roman mausoleum and two rock-cut tombs linked…
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
Archaeology
Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
Archaeologists at Turkmen Karahoyuk in central Turkey uncovered a 3,500-year-old Hieroglyphic Luwian seal bearing an official's…
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A Gold Coin, a Victory Goddess, and the Birth of Vindonissa
Archaeology
A Gold Coin, a Victory Goddess, and the Birth of Vindonissa
An eleven-month rescue excavation at Vindonissa, Switzerland exposed the earliest Roman camp fortifications, a legionary barracks,…
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Peace in Unexpected Places: A Byzantine Burial at Ephesus
Archaeology
Peace in Unexpected Places: A Byzantine Burial at Ephesus
Two premature infants, possibly twins, were buried with care inside an abandoned Roman latrine at Ephesus…
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The Roman Armor From the Battle That Stopped an Empire
Archaeology
The Roman Armor From the Battle That Stopped an Empire
A nearly complete Roman segmental armor from Kalkriese in Germany is the oldest of its kind…
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The Roman Main Street That Made Aspendos a Real City
Archaeology
The Roman Main Street That Made Aspendos a Real City
Excavations at Aspendos on Turkey's Mediterranean coast have exposed 300 metres of a Roman main street…
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A Roman Camp in Slovakia Where the Soldiers Never Left
Archaeology
A Roman Camp in Slovakia Where the Soldiers Never Left
Near Surany in southwestern Slovakia, archaeologists uncovered a 7.4-hectare Roman military camp from the time of…
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Eight Sandals Thrown Away in a Spanish Mine 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeology
Eight Sandals Thrown Away in a Spanish Mine 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists found eight esparto sandals discarded in ash pits at Spain's ancient Riotinto mines. Published in…
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What a Roman Latrine Taught Engineers About Lasting Concrete
Archaeology
What a Roman Latrine Taught Engineers About Lasting Concrete
A concrete sample from beneath a latrine seat at Hadrian's Villa reveals why Roman structures outlast…
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The Roman Pool at Tralleis That 5,000 People Used in a Day
Archaeology
The Roman Pool at Tralleis That 5,000 People Used in a Day
Archaeologists have fully uncovered a 2,000-year-old cold-water swimming pool at Tralleis in western Turkey, 37 metres…
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Five Graves Near Chelmsford Rewrote Iron Age History
Archaeology
Five Graves Near Chelmsford Rewrote Iron Age History
A 2,000-year-old Iron Age cemetery near Chelmsford has yielded five elite burials with Roman wine jars,…
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A God From Turkey, Worshipped by Roman Soldiers in Georgia
Archaeology
A God From Turkey, Worshipped by Roman Soldiers in Georgia
A gold plaque inscribed in Greek, found at the Roman fort of Apsaros on Georgia's Black…
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Netherlands’ Largest Roman Bathhouse Found Beneath a Former Factory in Nijmegen
Archaeology
Netherlands’ Largest Roman Bathhouse Found Beneath a Former Factory in Nijmegen
Archaeologists in Nijmegen's Waalfront district have uncovered the largest Roman bathhouse ever documented in the Netherlands,…
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A Roman Curse Tablet from the Netherlands Was Written in Egyptian-Style Greek
Archaeology
A Roman Curse Tablet from the Netherlands Was Written in Egyptian-Style Greek
A lead curse tablet found beneath the town hall square in Heerlen, Netherlands, has been deciphered…
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Croatian Mithras Sanctuary Rewrites Roman Mystery Cult Worship
Archaeology
Croatian Mithras Sanctuary Rewrites Roman Mystery Cult Worship
A new study of the Mithras sanctuary at Močići in Croatia has found no evidence of…
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Bridge Found Beneath Swiss River
Archaeology
1,700-Year-Old Roman Bridge Found Beneath Swiss River
Divers surveying the Aare River in Solothurn, Switzerland have confirmed the long-suspected remains of a 1,700-year-old…
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Pompeii Victim May Have Been a Fleeing Roman Doctor
Archaeology
Pompeii Victim May Have Been a Fleeing Roman Doctor
A plaster cast from Pompeii's Garden of the Fugitives, made in 1961 and largely overlooked for…
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Secrets of the Furnace: How Romans Engineered a Copper Empire in Cyprus
Archaeology
Secrets of the Furnace: How Romans Engineered a Copper Empire in Cyprus
Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a sophisticated Roman-era copper production site, revealing advanced water management systems…
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Gold Ring of Apollo with ‘Healing Serpent’ Found in 2,000-Year-Old Greek Tomb
Archaeology
Gold Ring of Apollo with ‘Healing Serpent’ Found in 2,000-Year-Old Greek Tomb
A 2,000-year-old Greek tomb near Corinth, later transformed into a healing shrine, reveals an Apollo ring…
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1,600-Year-Old Jewish Ritual Bath Unearthed Near Rome—The Oldest Discovery of Its Kind
Science
1,600-Year-Old Jewish Ritual Bath Unearthed Near Rome—The Oldest Discovery of Its Kind
Archaeologists uncover a fifth-century Jewish mikvah in Rome’s ancient port city of Ostia, the oldest known…
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