#archaeology

#archaeology

Volunteers and experts from the National Trust for Scotland discovered the copper alloy piece in an excavation of the remains of a stone structure in Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve (NNR). The tapered collar matches an old illustration that identifies it as An Gearradan, the part that connects the lyne arm and the head of a still. The excavation also unearthed a well-constructed hearth with evidence of burning, a stone-capped drain that run under the floor and a roof support timber that was buried when the walls of the structure collapsed.

"You can't separate our land from our culture," Eiler tells The Art Newspaper, noting that the border crosses tribal lines, and that she and members of her community still visit their cousins in Mexico for ceremonies in spite of plans to wall off reservation lands, which would separate tribal lands in the US from those in Mexico. The destruction of the intaglio, she adds, "is an insult to our ancestors."

The marble epitaph dedicated to Sextus Congenius Verus, a Roman sailor and military figure, was discovered in a New Orleans backyard by a couple clearing undergrowth.

The hoard includes specimens from the 980s to the 1040s—the height of the Vikings' power. Notably, many of the coins are foreign made, originating from England, Germany, as well as Denmark and Norway.

This remarkable discovery tells us a lot about the importance of children in Roman York and the willingness of the family to give their baby the best possible send off in tragic circumstances.

The results suggest that there's more variation in brain size among modern people than between Neanderthals and Pleistocene Homo sapiens. And because brain size is actually a terrible way to predict cognitive capability, Neanderthals could have been a lot more like us than some previous studies have claimed.

Researchers conclude that there is a room within the Menkaure Pyramid that has eluded previous groups of scientists and explorers. The methods used to locate this space had no physical effect on the pyramid.

"The popular conception of the ancient Maya society is that they underwent a major collapse. Archaeological investigations at Ucanal and elsewhere, however, show that there was not a collapse everywhere and that ancient Maya peoples resiliently reworked their governing systems."

The fact that the knives were found in the same place indicates that the people living in the Hammam Building Complex were engaged in animal husbandry.

According to the Bible, the sacred relic was built by the Israelites shortly after fleeing Egypt around the 13th century BC, with Moses placing the Ten Commandments inside.

The first fragment was discovered in 1937 on the Wolseong Palace site, measuring 13.62 cm wide, 11.13 cm high, and 9.75 cm thick, with partially damaged inscriptions.

The real de a ocho coin was discovered last month in an excavation at the site of the Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe. It was placed on a flat stone in the foundations of the colony's first church.

In 2025 alone, archaeologists there unearthed unusual creamware, and evidence that Monticello had prototypical bathrooms. Now, experts have uncovered yet another striking find-a 250-year-old kiln where enslaved people and indentured laborers fired the bricks used to build Monticello.

"The making and using of dice represent humans' first known efforts to intentionally generate, observe, and record streams of controlled, random events..."

We are delighted to unite these incredible archaeological finds from across the North for our latest exhibition. From Roman silver discovered along Hadrian's Wall to 9th-century gold found by a Newcastle University student, this is a rare opportunity to see these scattered treasures displayed alongside one another.

The footage captured by Trevor Grassi shows dozens of square shafts carved into bedrock, many extending deep underground but primarily filled with sand, raising new questions about what may lie beneath the surface.

"Willowdale Sports Precinct is located at the juncture of an ancient landscape (with archaeological evidence suggesting inhabitation for the past 10,000 years or more) and a burgeoning new suburb in the changing southwest Sydney region."

The first study analyzes canid remains from two sites: Pnarbas, on the Central Anatolian Plateau, and Gough's Cave, in Somerset, UK. The fragments from Pnarbas are extraordinarily small, but the team still managed to extract enough nuclear DNA to confirm that they were domestic dogs and not wolves.

The momoztli altar measures about one meter square and consists of three sections: a base of andesite quarry stone, a second section of larger slabs, and a top section of river stones and basalt.

'Women fighting beasts in arena games are attested by the written sources, but no visual source is known to show their image,' author Alfonso Mañas wrote in the International Journal of the History of Sport.