Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Turkey have discovered a gold brooch, a valuable jade stone, and a bronze pin dating to around 2500 BCE. The find, made near the “6M Palace” building in the Troy II layer, is among the most important discoveries there in a century and pushes back the […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
The recent research tracking the origin of southern Levantine ivory artifacts has revealed that most of the material came from African elephants, and Nubian merchants were involved in sustaining long-distance exchange networks for nearly a thousand years. Covering the period from 1600 to 600 BCE, the research provides the first empirical evidence of the biological […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Mysterious Bronze Age figures produced by Sardinia’s Nuraghe culture have finally had their material origins revealed.| The Debrief
The Bronze Age civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece represent two of the more influential early societies in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Minoan civilization flourished on Crete from approximately 3000-1450 BCE, and the Mycenaean civilization later dominated the Greek mainland from 1600-1100 BCE. The post Ancient Greece: Mycenae and Minoan Crete first appeared on Jennifer Eremeeva.| Jennifer Eremeeva
Archaeologists have revealed shocking new findings that horses were present in Sicily much earlier than previously believed, rewriting our understanding of prehistoric Mediterranean societies. A team headed by Davide Tanasi, a professor of digital archaeology at the University of South Florida, has demonstrated not only that horses lived on the island in the Early Bronze […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Bronze Age hoard in Rosemarkie reveals exquisite ornaments, rare organic wrappings, and insights into ancient Highland life.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A recent international study has explained the history of Sardinia’s iconic bronzetti statues, showing previously unknown facts about Bronze Age metallurgy and long-distance trade in the Mediterranean. Using advanced scientific methods, researchers have determined that the Nuragic people, who flourished on the island during the early first millennium BCE, used local and imported metals to […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
New research has demonstrated that the majority of people buried in monumental mounds in northwestern Brandenburg, Germany, around Seddin, were not locals but individuals believed to have originated from distant parts of Europe. The findings are the first bioarchaeological examination of human remains in the area and provide evidence for Seddin as an international hub […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
When we broke ground at Showell Nurseries, just outside Chippenham, we expected to uncover a few scattered prehistoric features. What we found instead was a rich, multi-phase barrow cemetery, revealing Bronze Age burial practices and beliefs that have helped to illuminate the lives (and deaths) of those who lived here around 4,000 years ago. Barrow… Read More »| Cotswold Archaeology
The colours of human skin, eyes and hair in living people across the world are determined by variants of genes (alleles) found at the same place on a chromosome. Since chromosomes are inherited from both… More| Earth-logs
Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck, lies one of the most important archaeological landscapes in Germany. The post Germany’s Stonehenge? appeared first on World Archaeology.| World Archaeology
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
DC goes back to the drawing board under the guiding hand of Mark Waid to further rewrite the history of their universe.| Bounding Into Comics
Far out in the wild steppe of Mongolia, carved rocks dot the landscape. Dated to the Bronze Age, nobody knows who carved the Mongolian Deer Stones, or why.| Historic Mysteries
The stunning Mold Gold Cape is from a forgotten time, hidden in a grave at the heart of the Hill of the Goblins. But who was buried there in such finery?| Historic Mysteries
Archaeologists have unearthed a large Bronze Age burial mound surrounded by Iron Age cremation burials in Petershagen-Windheim, Germany.| ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine
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