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The Mysterious Byzantine Bucket Found at Sutton Hoo Contains the Remains of an Anglo-Saxon Who May Have Served in the Imperial Army
In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...
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Small ceramic granaries with millet were sealed in Han tombs 2,200 years ago—now researchers are analyzing them
Many thousands of years before rice or wheat became the main crops in East Asia, millet was the staple grain that sustained ...
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Interpretatio Graeca, the way the Greeks identified the gods of other religions with their own
It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...
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What Is the Massive Spherical Plasma Bubble Astronomers Have Discovered in Our Galaxy? They Still Don’t Know Its Origin or Age
An international team of astronomers has discovered a strange cosmic object in our galaxy that they have named Teleios, a ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...
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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...
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Fragments of a large relief showing King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods, found in ancient Nineveh
The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...
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Pregnant Viking Women Were Depicted with Weapons, Study Reveals
A team of researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester has conducted the first study on motherhood in the Viking Age, discovering that pregnant women were depicted in art and ...
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...
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Evidence of a Roman ritual with pig jaws found among remains of a legionary camp
A shallow pit in Area B, containing exclusively mandibles, maxillae and isolated pig teeth; based on a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) calculation, the assemblage represents at least 13 pigs.
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Obsidian Artifacts Found at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan Came from Enemy Territory
Aztec obsidian knives from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán Credit: JoaquinVilaG / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists from Tulane University and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute ...