research.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/the-york-wit... Between the 16th and 19th centuries, witch bottles were popular items of protective magic. During the early half of this period, when witch hunts and trials were most prevalent, protection magic was at its height.

theconversation.com/the-roman-em... A new, comprehensive map and digital dataset published by a team of researchers led by Tom Brughmans at Aarhus University in Denmark shows almost 300,000 kilometres of roads spanning an area of close to 4 million square kilometres.

news.artnet.com/art-world/be... The dig established a complete archaeological sequence from before the Benin kingdom’s founding to after its demise.

www.dailysabah.com/life/history... The monumental structure, consisting of multiple rooms connected by corridors, lies 6-7 meters below surface and accessible through a small entrance opened during the excavation. Wall paintings, estimated to be around 3,000 years old, are being carefully preserved.

www.uc.pt/en/uc-news/a... The discovery sheds new light on the early history of Mesopotamia and the Zagros Mountains, helping to clarify the sequence of human occupation over millennia, particularly during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC.

arkeonews.net/standing-swo... Among the most remarkable discoveries is a Viking Age cremation site in Rallsta, near Hallstahammar. Here, archaeologists uncovered two large funeral pyres built on a small mountain — an imposing site designed to be seen from miles away.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... While many of the fragments could have been for tanning and colouring clothing, repelling insects or crafting tools, a chunk of yellow ochre about 42,000 years old, had been shaped into a crayon through repeated sharpening.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11... The complex spans nearly 500,000sq metres (5,381,900sq ft) and will house more than 100,000 ancient artefacts from the 30 dynasties of ancient Egypt.

arkeonews.net/2000-year-ol... So far, the Dorset site has yielded three face-down burials, each belonging to young women.

arkeonews.net/sleeping-cup... Experts describe the find as one of the most significant examples of ancient Roman art ever discovered in Istria, and a testimony to the wealth and cultural sophistication of Roman-era Pula.

www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... The book containing religious songs, now known as the Hagenes manuscript, is thought to be from the 13th century, but could be older.

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w... Though previous works have highlighted the diseases that affected the Egyptians thousands of years ago, this is the first book to be written from the perspective of the ancient equivalent of doctors, patients and nurses.

www.latimes.com/science/stor... Lashing winds and storm surge devoured dozens of feet of shoreline, disrupting a culturally significant archaeological site and washing away possibly thousands of unearthed artifacts.

theconversation.com/curses-whisp... While thousands of women – and some men – were executed for witchcraft across Scotland, England and mainland Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries, only five executions took place in Wales.

www.medievalists.net/2025/10/medi... One of the loaves is particularly remarkable for bearing a depiction of Jesus alongside a Greek inscription reading “With thanksgiving to the blessed Christ.”

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... Since 1958, the ancient city has been continuously excavated by one of the longest-running institutional projects, the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis.

theconversation.com/were-neander... Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has been much objection to the notion that they explored deep caves and left art on the walls.

www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... The recovery of over 100 projectiles includes lead musket balls and cannon shot, including a three-pound cannon ball believed to have been fired by the Jacobite artillery.

theconversation.com/how-a-400-00... Four hundred thousand years ago, humans in Europe were few in number but probably most common along the Mediterranean shores.

theconversation.com/ai-reveals-w... When the research team combined different AI approaches, they all pointed to the same result: The tooth marks on the Homo habilis bones matched those made by leopards.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... Using advanced modelling techniques, the researchers have shown that both Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers played a significant role in shaping vegetation patterns across Europe.

kuwaittimes.com/article/3492... Excavations confirmed the presence of two superimposed temples at the same site, both dating back about 4,000 years.

arkeonews.net/1500-year-ol... Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime units of the Mardin Provincial Gendarmerie, acting on intelligence, searched the garden of a suspect in the district of Derik, where they uncovered an elaborately decorated mosaic deliberately hidden beneath a concrete slab.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The items include Viking Age silver and Bronze Age jewellery, some of which has never been put on display on the island before.

arkeonews.net/2000-year-ol... Researchers believe the hippodrome was likely commissioned in the late 1st century BC or early 1st century AD, possibly during the rule of King Archelaus, who oversaw Cappadocia’s transition into a Roman client state.

scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news... Among the finds were blades from throwing weapons, bone needles, a fragment of a stone lamp, shell ornaments, and a large hearth surrounded by animal bones.

scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news... Polish and Mongolian scientists say hunter-gatherer groups once lived, hunted, and crafted tools near these ancient waters before retreating to nearby mountains when the climate turned colder.

www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/m... The possible foundation of a monumental Roman tomb has been unearthed in southern Germany in what was once the Roman province of Raetia.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t... Some of the coins are embossed with the name and likeness of the Swedish king Knut Eriksson, who ruled between roughly 1173 and 1195.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/... The remains belong to Roman soldiers who fought in the Battle of Mursa in A.D. 260.

phys.org/news/2025-10... Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ancient settlements has revealed widespread uses by Neolithic farmers, such as for assembling tools, repairing ceramics and chewing, possibly for medicinal purposes.

news.ku.dk/all_news/202... More than 95 dolmen remains have been documented by the archaeologists, and the central hilltop of the site contains stone-built enclosures and carved bedrock features that also suggest ceremonial use.

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The discovery included 76 chacus, with the great majority being V-shaped traps formed by two ‘antennae’ built from dry-stone walls, around 1.5 metres in height and on average 150 metres in length.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turk... Using high-resolution scanning, the team mapped a large building and numerous smaller house-like structures.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/... Archaeologists documented the 205-foot-long (62.5 meter) mound in 2014 while surveying prehistoric irrigation systems in Tehuacán Valley, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) southeast of Mexico City.

www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... By analysing the strontium and oxygen isotopes in the tooth enamel, the researchers were able to establish if the individuals grew up locally or whether they moved from a different area - reconstructing previously invisible patterns of mobility.

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/your... Anthropologists estimate that at least 12,000 different gods, goddesses, and various animals or objects have been worshiped by humans since our species began producing durable artifacts.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The age of the fragile 9ft (2.7 meter) canoe is under analysis through carbon dating and other scientific processes. Investigators are pursuing a theory that it might be a dugout cayuco crafted by Spanish invaders who settled in the region during the 16th century.

www.anatolianarchaeology.net/unbroken-lif... First identified by British archaeologist James Mellaart in 1954, the site offers a rare window into uninterrupted life across the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The headstone was dedicated to a circa second-century Roman sailor and military member named Sextus Congenius Verus.

news.ku.dk/all_news/202... Magnus Pharao Hansen and Christophe Helmke show that the writing on the walls of Teotihuacan is in fact record a language that is a linguistic ancestor of the Cora and Huichol languages and the Aztec language Nahuatl.

arkeonews.net/historic-dis... Researchers have known that the T-shaped pillars of Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe symbolized human figures, as indicated by the engraved arms and hands on their surfaces. However, this is the first time that a pillar directly portrays a human face.

www.medievalists.net/2025/10/unco... During its four-year term, TORF plans to reconstruct the broader medieval landscape of North Frisia and investigate how human efforts to reclaim land ultimately failed in the face of nature’s power.

theconversation.com/book-of-kell... For well over a century, debate has raged as to whether the manuscript was made at Iona on the west coast of Scotland, the northern English monastery of Lindisfarne or a Columban monastery in Ireland.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/g... Archaeologists recently recovered more than 200 artifacts from historical bearded vulture nests in southern Spain. One of the most remarkable was a 650-year-old sandal made from woven twigs and grasses.

partner.sciencenorway.no/university-o... Despite being one of Norway’s longest-standing military traditions – used from around 950 to 1814 – beacon fires have been little studied by researchers.

www.zmescience.com/science/arch... At three main sites, archaeologists found 176 engravings across 62 panels, the majority of which were life-sized, naturalistic depictions of animals. Camels make up 72% of the identifiable animals, followed by ibex, wild equids (horses and donkeys), and gazelles.

phys.org/news/2025-09... The discovery was made through microscopic analyses of ancient unknapped ground stone tools recovered from Dzudzuana Cave, located in the foothills of the Caucasus in Georgia.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The start of a painstaking investigation which eventually solved a 100-year-old mystery by identifying two missing Scottish soldiers.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/4500... The brooch was unearthed in the layers of Troy II, one of the early settlement phases of the site. The discovery has now provided clear evidence, dating the layer to around 2,500 B.C.