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London Museum receives more than 14,000 Roman artifacts and £20M from BloombergThe London Museum has received a gift from Bloomberg...

London Museum receives more than 14,000 Roman artifacts and £20M from Bloomberg

The London Museum has received a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, comprising more than 14,000 Roman artifacts discovered during the construction of Bloomberg’s European headquarters, along with a £20 million donation to support the museum’s relocation to Smithfield...

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Stone Age European hunter-gatherers reached North Africa by boat, ancient DNA revealsNew genetic studies offer the very first clear evidence...

Stone Age European hunter-gatherers reached North Africa by boat, ancient DNA reveals

New genetic studies offer the very first clear evidence that European hunter-gatherers crossed the Mediterranean and came into contact with North African populations as early as 8,500 years ago. The discoveries challenge long-held beliefs about how agriculture and cultural influences reached the region...

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Bronze Age pottery reveals El Argar’s economic and political frontiersA trailblazing study conducted by researchers from the Autonomous...

Bronze Age pottery reveals El Argar’s economic and political frontiers

A trailblazing study conducted by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology mapped out the economic and political borders of the territory of El Argar, the Bronze Age site credited with being the first state-level society in the Iberian Peninsula...

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Ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were scented, study revealsScholars have known for centuries that the ancient Greek and Roman statues, far...

Ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were scented, study reveals

Scholars have known for centuries that the ancient Greek and Roman statues, far from being the immaculate white marble figures put on view in museums today, were instead painted in rich colors and decorated with textiles and jewelry, and, as a new study suggests, even perfumes...

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First burials: evidence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sharing culture 110,000 years agoA recent discovery in Tinshemet Cave, central...

First burials: evidence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sharing culture 110,000 years ago

A recent discovery in Tinshemet Cave, central Israel, is changing the way we look at early human interactions. Archaeologists have found human burials from the Middle Paleolithic period, and they revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens not only lived in the same region but also shared aspects of daily life...

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Mikveh ritual bath discovered in Ostia Antica, ItalyArchaeologists in Ostia Antica, the ancient port city near Rome, have made an amazing...

Mikveh ritual bath discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy

Archaeologists in Ostia Antica, the ancient port city near Rome, have made an amazing discovery—a Mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, from the late 4th or early 5th century CE. This is a new discovery about the long-standing Jewish community in Ostia, and it’s the oldest Mikveh outside of Israel...

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Teeth from burial pit in Mongolia trace Han soldiers in the Xiongnu warNew information on a mass burial found at the Bayanbulag site in...

Teeth from burial pit in Mongolia trace Han soldiers in the Xiongnu war

New information on a mass burial found at the Bayanbulag site in Mongolia, which is thought to hold the remains of Han warriors who participated in the Han-Xiongnu War, has been revealed by a recent bioarchaeological study...

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Most ancient Europeans had dark skin until 3,000 years ago, study findsDark skin was widespread across the continent for a considerably...

Most ancient Europeans had dark skin until 3,000 years ago, study finds

Dark skin was widespread across the continent for a considerably longer period of time than previously believed, according to a DNA study that has completely changed our perception of the appearance of ancient Europeans. In the study, 348 ancient human genomes from people who lived between 45,000 and 1,700 years ago were examined..

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Mystery of the Arnish Moor Man: Belongings of 18th-Century Suspected Murder Victim on DisplayA new exhibition showing the personal items of...

Mystery of the Arnish Moor Man: Belongings of 18th-Century Suspected Murder Victim on Display

A new exhibition showing the personal items of a mystery 18th-century man, known as the Arnish Moor Man, has opened at the Kinloch Historical Society on the Isle of Lewis. The collection, comprising a well-preserved knitted bonnet and other items, represents the first time these items have been exhibited in a generation...

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The Le Câtillon II hoard: exploring the mystery of Jersey’s buried Celtic treasureMore than a decade ago, after three decades of...

The Le Câtillon II hoard: exploring the mystery of Jersey’s buried Celtic treasure

More than a decade ago, after three decades of searching, metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles uncovered one of the biggest Celtic hoards ever found. The Le Câtillon II hoard contained about 70,000 silver coins, gold torques, and jewelry, all found in Jersey’s Grouville parish...

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Archaeologists uncover lost ancient city beneath Nakhon Ratchasima in ThailandA recent study has revealed the existence of an ancient city...

Archaeologists uncover lost ancient city beneath Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand

A recent study has revealed the existence of an ancient city beneath the historic center of Nakhon Ratchasima, in northeastern Thailand. The discovery, based on aerial photographs taken in the 1950s, suggests that an extensive four-sided earthen embankment, which would have surrounded a lost city, may have existed before the city’s known history...

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Ancient whalers’ graves in Svalbard are vanishing as permafrost meltsThe frozen landscapes of Svalbard, a remote archipelago of Norway in...

Ancient whalers’ graves in Svalbard are vanishing as permafrost melts

The frozen landscapes of Svalbard, a remote archipelago of Norway in the Arctic, have hidden a special archaeological find for years—graves from the 17th and 18th centuries that belong to European whalers. However, rising temperatures are fast becoming a menace to those very burial sites, accelerating their decay or even washing some into the sea...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/whalers-graves-in-svalbard-are-vanishing/

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First Bronze Age settlement in Maghreb predates PhoeniciansAn archaeology team led by Hamza Benattia Melgarejo, a researcher from the...

First Bronze Age settlement in Maghreb predates Phoenicians

An archaeology team led by Hamza Benattia Melgarejo, a researcher from the University of Barcelona, proposes that their discovery of the remains of a settlement at Kach Kouch, along the Lau River, about 10 kilometers inland from the coast and 30 kilometers southeast of Tétouan, dating as far back as 2200 BCE...

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Neolithic stone circle in Dorset redated, possibly inspiring Stonehenge’s designRecent archaeological research has revealed that the...

Neolithic stone circle in Dorset redated, possibly inspiring Stonehenge’s design

Recent archaeological research has revealed that the Flagstones monument near Dorchester, Dorset, is the earliest known circular enclosure in Britain. The results of advanced radiocarbon dating have placed it around two centuries older than previously estimated...

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Archaeologists uncover rock-cut cellars and historic quarry beneath Paderborn’s historic centerAn excavation led by archaeologists from...

Archaeologists uncover rock-cut cellars and historic quarry beneath Paderborn’s historic center

An excavation led by archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association in Germany has unearthed a series of basement rooms and a former quarry beneath the historic center of Paderborn...

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New radiocarbon dating reveals Lapedo Child’s age and Neanderthal-human interactionA recent study has used advanced radiocarbon dating to...

New radiocarbon dating reveals Lapedo Child’s age and Neanderthal-human interaction

A recent study has used advanced radiocarbon dating to present a more precise age for the Lapedo Child, a significant archaeological find that reshaped our perception of the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals...

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Remains of Cleveland airman identified 80 years after WWII crash, returning homeAfter nearly 80 years, the remains of 2nd Lt. Robert T....

Remains of Cleveland airman identified 80 years after WWII crash, returning home

After nearly 80 years, the remains of 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum, a U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier who went missing in action during World War II, have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) officially confirmed McCollum’s identification, bringing long-awaited closure to his family...

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1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania are the oldest ever, reshaping early hominin technologyArchaeologists have uncovered...

1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania are the oldest ever, reshaping early hominin technology

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, dating back 1.5 million years. This finding has pushed back systematic bone tool production by more than a million years and challenges previous assumptions about the technological capability of early hominins...

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Oldest carvel-built ship in Nordic region discovered in SwedenMaritime archaeologists from the Museum of Wrecks (Vrak) in Stockholm have...

Oldest carvel-built ship in Nordic region discovered in Sweden

Maritime archaeologists from the Museum of Wrecks (Vrak) in Stockholm have identified a shipwreck off Sweden’s coast that may be the oldest confirmed carvel-built vessel in the Nordic region. Lying beneath Landfjärden’s waters south of Stockholm, Wreck 5 is believed to have been built in the 1480s, perhaps as early as the 1460s...

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Rare 17th-century Civil War defenses unearthed at Sheffield CastleArchaeologists have uncovered the remains of the first surviving wooden...

Rare 17th-century Civil War defenses unearthed at Sheffield Castle

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the first surviving wooden stake defenses from the English Civil War at the site of Sheffield Castle. This discovery provides an interesting link to one of the most tumultuous periods in British history...

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