arkeonews.net/a-sealed-wel... The most striking object from Nuraghe Barru is the bronze sword found near the staircase. It measures 94 centimeters long, but the study suggests it was not a functional weapon.

uni-koeln.de/en/universit... As long as 220,000 years ago – far earlier than previously thought – people quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out.

phys.org/news/2026-05... Researchers describe a Neanderthal tooth which received physical alterations to treat infection.

deephistory.substack.com/p/the-ghost-... By extracting enamel proteins from six Homo erectus specimens across China, we have finally bridged the gap between the fossils we find in the dirt and the sequences we find in our cells.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The site of the original Hampden Park, considered to be the world's first international football stadium, has earned protected status from Historic Environment Scotland.

archaeology.org/issues/may-j... Saving an ancestral Haida village after a devastating storm.

www.socantscot.org/society-fund... Funding from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland supported professional historical costumier, Lilja Husmo, in the reconstruction of a unique 3,000-year-old hat to understand and demonstrate the technique of its manufacture.

news.uoregon.edu/oldest-hide-... Some of the items are over 12,000 years old, including the oldest known piece of sewn hide.

theconversation.com/we-found-hun... In the desert region between the Nile and the Red Sea, archaeologists kept finding large, circular mass graves filled with the bones of people and animals, often carefully arranged around a key person at the centre.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... Rather than pay a tax, distillers and smugglers went to great lengths, moving their illicit stills and bothies into upland areas to avoid detection.

jkcomarc.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/u... Between July 2021 and October 2022, the Skipwith Heritage Group set out to answer a question that had lingered in the village for generations: What really stood inside the tree-lined moat south of the church?

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m... The earliest layers in the cave contained just charcoal and the latest were very thin, but the two middle layers, dating from 5,500 to 3,000 years ago, held several hearths containing burned fragments of what might be malachite.

www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-... The gold ornament may have belonged to a ceremonial sword owned only by the most powerful people in Norway 1,500 years ago.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... Minted in the third century B.C.E. in the city of Troy, located in what is now western Turkey, the bronze coin is the first ancient Greek artifact ever unearthed in the German capital.

scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news... Archaeologists have identified as many as 10 ancient amber workshops across five settlements in Masovia (East Central Poland). They uncovered thousands of amber fragments, along with decorative beads and pendants, pointing to production on a significant scale.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/d... In Jerash, the dead piled up so fast that citizens dispensed with once-sacred funerary rituals. The city’s hippodrome, an arena that had once hosted chariot races, was by then a ceramics and textiles factory. When the plague hit, it became a mass grave.

www.niku.no/en/2026/04/n... Excavations revealed traces of settlement activity dating to the 6th, 7th and 8th centuries, long before Harald Hardrada ruled. The discovery of these early deposits provided the possibility that the mound and ditch were perhaps older than the medieval town itself.

www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... The rare find suggests the babies were from families of significant social standing. During the Roman period, the dye was a commodity valued at up to three times the price of gold.

www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/sco... Targeting the heritage sector and, in particular, Listed buildings that are in need of roof repairs, the aim is to have orders in place for buildings of significance right across Scotland.

theconversation.com/rock-art-dan... The researchers found that all the kinds of dances that have been described in living cultures – dances for ritual, entertainment or special circumstances – are depicted in Zimbabwe’s rock art. But ritual is a central theme.

www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-... So far, it appears that the treasure dates from the end of the Viking Age. It was likely buried in the ground in Innlandet sometime around 1050.

#SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday #Neolithic owl-faced idol 4300-4000 BC from chamber tomb excavated 1968 in Arnesano near Lecce, Puglia. 🏺 It has similarities w examples found in Cyprus + in Crete. Buried w ceramics associated w cult of Diana. in MArTA - Taranto arch museum #ancientbluesky

phys.org/news/2026-04... The archaeological team discovered a Roman-era mummy in Tomb 65 of Sector 22 that featured an unusual element: a papyrus placed on the abdomen as part of the embalming ritual.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Originally thought to be Tudor in origin, further analysis of the pottery and kiln structure suggest it dates from the late 14th to the early 15th Century, in the late medieval period.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/smal... Within the Hittite belief system, often referred to as the “Thousand Gods of Hatti,” the Storm God held a central role as the “King of the Gods,” associated with rain, fertility and the power of the sky.

www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/... Doggerland did not suddenly disappear – it probably broke up into a series of low-lying islands of which Dogger Bank was the largest and last to go. People were slowly pushed to the higher places on the fringes.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i... While conducting a survey of the bay from 2020 to 2023, researchers identified 151 archaeological sites, including the remains of more than 100 doomed ships.

www.wessexarch.co.uk/archaeologis... Happisburgh's church has been at the heart of a vibrant community for more than 600 years, making it essential to capture the memories, stories, and voices of residents alongside recording the church.

www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2603921... DNA analysis of human remains shows over a 90 per cent shift in the genetic ancestry of the British population from around 2500 BC due to large-scale movement of people from continental Europe.

www.medievalists.net/2026/04/hoar... These projectiles were commonly used between about 1350 and 1600, a period when gunpowder weapons were becoming increasingly important in European warfare.

phys.org/news/2026-04... Radiocarbon dating of the wood attached to the rivets indicated a burial date around AD 700.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/p... New research about the ship’s bounty, corrects an old myth: the belief that West African traders “passed off adulterated materials of lesser value as high-karat gold.”

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/... This needs to stop!

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/shakesp... A document held in The London Archives, is a plan of part of the Blackfriars precinct, drawn up in 1668, after the Great Fire of London, which confirms the precise location and size of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars house.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Small digs of the cave under Pembroke Castle, known as Wogan Cavern, have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w... The joint French and Egyptian research team found the stela while restoring the gateway of an enclosure wall dated to the reign of Ramses III, who ruled in the 12th century B.C.E. during Egypt’s 20th Dynasty.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The shell, the first unexploded item to be found at Culloden, is believed to have landed in boggy ground where its fuse fizzled out.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/... The coin is a vital clue for archaeologists investigating a colonial settlement there, as it matches a surviving 1584 account of the Christian ceremony involving the coin, a standard practice when Spanish colonial settlements were founded.

octopusfoundation.org/en/project/e... In November 2024, a shipwreck was discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel. It contained a preserved cachet of pottery, weapons, tools, and harness parts, dating from the early Roman Empire.

www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/dig... Working with laser scan data from sites in Zanzibar and Dartmoor, Dr Laura Basell reflects on the “glitches”, fragments, and accidental captures usually edited out. Watch the video at the bottom of the article.

arkeonews.net/extraordinar... Historical sources describe ceremonies in which two dogs were sacrificed to malevolent spirits—known in Yakut belief systems as abaahy—in order to divert illness and death away from children.

arkeonews.net/previously-u... Rather than adopting imperial culture wholesale, the people buried at Mersin appear to have selectively incorporated its symbols—jewellery styles, objects, and aesthetic cues—into long-standing local traditions.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The helmet and two golden bracelets dating back to about 450BC were recently recovered. The treasures had been on loan to the Drents Museum in the Netherlands when they were stolen.

phys.org/news/2026-03... Tasmanian devils and thylacines are believed to have disappeared from mainland Australia about 3,000 years ago. Newly documented artworks—some of which may be less than 1,000 years old—could show that these species survived longer in northern regions than previously thought.

phys.org/news/2026-03... The earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 years ago.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/... Where Neanderthals ultimately died out, several mitochondrial DNA lineages existed until about 65,000 years ago. After this point, these groups were replaced by a single Neanderthal mitochondrial genetic lineage originating from southwestern France.

archaeology.org/news/2026/03... The residues and phytoliths recovered from the ash within the burner contained traces of wine and frankincense, ingredients for a ritual practice called praefatio intended to invite the gods to bless the proceedings.

www.niku.no/en/2026/02/m... A central question in the project is how large empires emerge from small herding groups — and to understand that researchers must first understand how these groups collaborate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... According to historical records, the shield was found buried upright in peat alongside six others – though the whereabouts of those remains unclear.