A large water system in the City of David has been precisely dated to nearly 2,800 years ago, a discovery that sheds new light on the engineering prowess of Iron Age Jerusalem. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows that the extensive Siloam Dam was built between 805 […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists routinely uncover pottery, coins, and bones, but the scents of the past are much more elusive. An innovative interdisciplinary study has now traced fragrances that were once at the heart of Phoenician culture. Through the analysis of 51 ceramic oil vessels from the site of Motya, a small island off Sicily’s coast, researchers have […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists have completed a three-year excavation at the Celtic oppidum of Manching in Bavaria and uncovered more than 40,000 artifacts that provide new information on life in the late Iron Age. Among the discoveries is a rare bronze warrior figurine. The warrior, just 7.5 centimeters (three inches) tall and weighing 55 grams, stands with a […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Castlestrange Inscribed Stone Situated just off the Suck Valley Way walking route, you can find the Castlestrange Inscribed Stone. One of the best, and perhaps one of the most enigmatic, examples of La Tène art in Ireland. The stone is situated alongside the carriageway that once led to Castlestrange House, [...] The post Castlestrange Inscribed Stone appeared first on Tuatha.| Tuatha
Archaeologists excavating along the Sava River in Tolisa, northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, have discovered what is potentially the largest collection of prehistoric bipyramidal iron ingots yet found in Europe, potentially redefining the area’s contribution to prehistoric trade and metallurgy. The cache, which dates from the transition period between the Late Iron Age (La Tène […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
In the 1990s, an aerial photograph captured a circular feature in the fields near the village of Pömmelte, Germany, sparking the beginning of an extraordinary archaeological endeavour. The feature proved to be the remains of a henge monument built around 2350 BC. Although its uprights were fashioned from timber rather than rock, the monument displayed a number of tantalising similarities to Stonehenge in Britain. One area of overlap is that both sites lay within much wider ritual landscapes....| World Archaeology
Cotswold Archaeology: In 2018 and 2019 we excavated along a new 6km long pipeline between Childrey Warren and Wantage in Oxfordshire. The new route ran within the distinctive landscape of the Vale of the White Horse towards the foot of the Berkshire Downs. It travelled in a north-east to south-west direction, crossing gently rolling hills and agricultural… Read More » The post Mesolithic antlers, Roman family cemeteries, and Saxon surprises: Archaeology along the Childrey Warren Pipeline a...| Cotswold Archaeology
Cotswold Archaeology: In 2022 and 2023, Cotswold Archaeology’s Milton Keynes field team conducted archaeological excavations at a site to the west of Northampton. A particularly interesting artefact found in the fill of a ditch was this fired clay spindle whorl. Spindles are textile tools consisting of a straight rod which is often weighted at either the bottom,… Read More » The post You spin me right round baby, right round: Iron Age spindle whorl from Land West of Northampton appeared ...| Cotswold Archaeology
A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by Rome and a powerful ruler in Britain: Cunobelin. This eye-catching mixture is just one of the clues that the hoard was amassed by a person or people with first-hand experience of Britain, most likely participants in the Roman invasion. Do these coins of Cunobelin, then, represent the spoils of war? In our cover feature, we explore what this hoard rev...| World Archaeology
When used properly, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an extraordinarily powerful tool and one of the best ways to study fine-scale genetic substructures within Europe. The PCA plot below is based on Global25 data and focuses on the genetic relationship between Wielbark Goths and Medieval Poles, including from the Viking Age, in the context of present-day European genetic variation. I'd| Eurogenes Blog
Archaeologists have unearthed a large Bronze Age burial mound surrounded by Iron Age cremation burials in Petershagen-Windheim, Germany.| ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine