A story of successful cultural integration from the Avar period
Genes and culture do not have to match, as confirmed by the latest research project in two cemeteries from the 8th century Avar period.
Natural climate archives: speleothem and ice cores
Researchers precisely date devastating volcanic eruption. It did not cause the sudden-onset cold period 13,000 years ago.
Juvenile Pterosaur Fossil with a Bite Mark Discovered
New research reveals a bite mark found in a fossil neck vertebra of a juvenile pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Alberta.
Veterans and personnel uncover Iron Age treasures at RAF airfield
Parts of a Celtic chariot, thought to be around 2,000 years old, were discovered underneath the airfield at RAF Valley in Anglesey.
Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
Archaeologists have found evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.
Open again: The Vasari Corridor
Visitors enter through the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, walk through the core of the Ponte Vecchio, and exit at the Boboli Gardens.
Design for New Modern and Contemporary Art Wing of The Met
Redesigned wing will create world-class home for The Met’s diverse collection of 20th- and 21st-century art.
Stunning Corinthian helmet in auction
The Corinthian hoplite bronze helmet is about to be sold at an estimated price of £60,000-£90,000 by Apollo Art Auctions house.
Revealing the menu of 5000 years ago
Up to now, a mystery has remained regarding the preferred plant food ingredients of the so-called Funnel Beaker Culture.
Markos Kampanis. Odyssey
The exhibition is a painterly journey, shorter than the Homeric one, based on a parallel imaginary geography conceived by the artist.
Magnificent Scandinavian helmet found in Lejre
The exceptional gold-plated bronze helmet fragment was uncovered by two metal detectorists near Lejre (Denmark) during the spring of 2024.
Lavish bath complex came to light in Pompeii
One of the largest private bath complexes ever to be discovered, adjoining a banqueting room, has been brought to light during the excavations of Regio IX in Pompeii.
Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
A new study by Bournemouth University has found evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain.
Discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production
Archaeological discoveries from a Roman pottery production site which formed part of a major industry around Poole Harbour.
East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria
Ancient genomes show integration of genetically different groups to the same early medieval Avar society in the Vienna Basin, Austria.
Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic sacrifice of unique “sun stones”
4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs.
The hidden complexity of ancient Peruvian tattoos
This discovery suggests that tattoos could have been status symbols or spiritual emblems in ancient societies.
World’s oldest 3D map discovered
Palaeolithic people had “worked” the sandstone in a way that mirrored the female form and opened fractures for infiltrating water.
A new chapter to Indonesia’s layered human history
First genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into into the Wallacea, e.g. Timor-Leste and hundreds of Indonesian islands.
Ancient artifacts in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni and a team of researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan.
New secrets under Sforza Castle in Milan
Underground passages, some of which could be linked to secret passages of a military nature, also described in drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.
Waka found on Rēkohu Wharekauri Chatham Island
Αrchaeological authority was granted to Manatū Taonga to allow for the recovery of the visible pieces of the waka that remain in situ.
Drone mapping unlocks secrets of ‘mega fortress’ in the Caucasus
A Cranfield University academic has used drone mapping to investigate a 3000-year-old ‘mega fortress’ in the Caucasus mountains.
Cleopatra’s sister remains missing
An interdisciplinary research team has analysed the skull that has long been thought to belong the remains of Cleopatra's sister.