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Old December 9th, 2019 #141
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Stunning Warrior Grave — Complete with Chariot, Horses - Uncovered in England


Dec 9, 2019

Inside a 2,200-year-old grave, archaeologists have discovered a stunning Iron Age shield, along with a chariot and two ponies buried in a leaping pose, in what archaeologists are calling one of the most important discoveries in the U.K.

A team of archaeologists led by Paula Ware of MAP Archaeological Practice Ltd. discovered the grave near Pocklington, England. The shield, which is about 30 inches (75 centimeters) across, “was discovered in July 2018, but its true glory was only revealed recently once conservation was completed,” Ware told Live Science. The restoration revealed that the shield is decorated with a series of complex swirls and what looks like a sphere protruding from its center.

https://www.livescience.com/warrior-...n-england.html
 
Old December 13th, 2019 #142
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Dazzling 'Temple of Colored Marbles' Honoring Roman God Discovered in Italy


Dec 13, 2019

Some 1,600 years ago, ancient Romans would have worshipped the god Mithras, possibly in an altered state of consciousness, within the “Mithraeum of Colored Marbles,” said archaeologists who found the remains of this temple in Ostia, Italy.

Artifacts and inscriptions found in the mithraeum suggest that the worshippers venerated both Mithras, a popular god in the Roman Empire, and other gods.

https://www.livescience.com/mithraeu...iscovered.html
 
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Archaeologists find graves of high-status Romans in Somerset


Jan 7, 2020

The remains of a woman found at a Roman cemetery in Somerton, Somerset

The resting places of more than 50 adults and children have been found in an unusual Roman cemetery unearthed during building work for a new school in Somerset.

Archaeologists say the discovery at Somerton, near Glastonbury, sheds significant light on life and death in the south-west of Britain after the Roman invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...erton-somerset
 
Old January 29th, 2020 #144
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How A-Boat This! Massive Centuries-Old Shipwreck Found on Bottom of River Vistula


Jan 22, 2020

A huge shipwreck measuring 37-metres-long and dating back centuries has been discovered by archaeologists in the Vistula River north of Warsaw.

The 6-metre-wide vessel which was probably used to carry up to 100 tonnes of goods, was found by scientists carrying out research on the bottom of the Vistula in an area covering a dozen or so kilometres.

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/new...r-vistula.html
 
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7000-year-old Neolithic era wooden well in Czech could be the oldest engineering marvel on earth

Feb 4, 2020

A well built in the Early Neolithic period —over 7,000 years ago— by farmers in modern-day Czech, may be the oldest wooden structure known to man on this planet, according to archaeologists. The well was accidentally discovered near the town of Ostrov while digging for a highway in 2018.

Following the discovery, archaeologists excavated a wooden structure lining the water well. It was found to be 140 cm in height and its base are was 6400 sq cm. The findings from the excavation will be published in a study in March 2020. However, the abstract highlighting key features of the find is available.

https://www.ibtimes.sg/7000-year-old...el-earth-38841
 
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Ancient carvings of scores of animals unearthed in Spanish cave (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)


8 Feb, 2020

In a discovery that local media have dubbed the ‘Catalan Altamira’, an extraordinary trove of 15,000-year-old carvings, depicting dozens of animals, has been found in a cave in northeast Spain’s Tarragona region.

Around 100 carvings of animals including horses, oxen and deer, as well as mysterious abstract symbols, were found in a cave in the village of L'Espluga de Francolí.

https://www.rt.com/news/480396-ancie...covered-spain/
 
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Construction Workers Unearth Ancient Greek Gem in Downtown Athens


Nov 14, 2020

Α spectacular ancient Greek sculpture was unearthed in the downtown Agia Irini (St Irene) Square of Athens on Saturday during construction work.

The news was shared by Kostas Bakoyannis, the mayor of the city of Athens, through a Facebook post.

There is still not much information about how old the sculpture is or who it depicts.

Some speculate the marble head belongs to an ancient Greek God, probably Zeus, others say it depicts a prominent ancient Athenian.

https://greece.greekreporter.com/202...wntown-athens/
 
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Mushroom hunter unearths gorgeous Bronze Age sword


Nov 13, 2020

A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic found much more than he was looking for when he uncovered an ancient sword and bronze axe, both thought to date from around 3,300 years ago.

Roman Novák was “mushrooming” in spring on a forested hillside near his home in the eastern Jesenicko region soon after it had rained, according to Radio Prague International.

https://www.livescience.com/mushroom...ent-sword.html
 
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Archaeologists reveal origins of famous Stone Age monument


Archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff have discovered the origins of Arthur’s Stone, one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age monuments.

Manchester’s Professor Julian Thomas, who led the excavation, says the imposing Herefordshire tomb is linked to nearby ‘halls of the dead’, which were discovered in 2013.

It is the first time the construction—which inspired the 'stone table’ in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—has been properly excavated.

Dating to the Neolithic period in 3700BC, Arthur’s Stone is located on a lonely hilltop outside of the village of Dorstone, facing the Black Mountains in south Wales.

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-archae...stone-age.html
 
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Irish archaeologists discover a rare 1,600-year-old idol in the Roscommon bog


Aug 14, 2021

A 1,600-year-old wooden pagan idol has been discovered in a bog in Co Roscommon by Irish archaeologists.

This rare artifact made more than 1600 years ago was discovered in the swamp of the town of Gortnacrannagh, 6 kilometers northeast of Rathcroghan, a prehistoric royal site.

The wood carving was discovered by a team of Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS) before the N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge road project, which was funded by the Irish government and managed by the Irish Transport Infrastructure (TII) through the Roscommon County Council.

https://arkeonews.net/irish-archaeol...roscommon-bog/
 
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Archaeologists discover treasure hoard in Suzdal Opolye region of Russia


Aug 14, 2021

Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences has discovered a treasure hoard near the Nerl-Klyazminskaya river, in the Suzdal Opolye region of Russia.

The hoard was uncovered during ongoing surveys of a previously unexplored area in an ancient settlement, where fragments of jewellery appeared on the surface due to agricultural activity.

This led to an exploratory 2×2 metre pit being excavated, revealing Volga-Finnish jewellery deposits from the period of the Great Nations Migration from the middle of the 1st millennium AD.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/0...-russia/139884
 
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Archaeologists find skeleton, evidence of Greek in Pompeii


Aug 17, 2021

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79.

A skull bearing tufts of white hair and part of an ear, as well as bones and fabric fragments, were found in the tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno, an area not yet open to the public that is located in the east of Pompeii’s urban center. The discovery is unusual since most adults were cremated at the time.

An inscription of the tomb suggested that its owner, a freed slave named Marcus Venerius Secundio, helped organize performances in Greek in Pompeii. Experts said it was the first confirmation that Greek, the language of culture in the Mediterranean, was used alongside Latin

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-archae...k-pompeii.html
 
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Rare langsax fighting blade discovery


Aug 2021

Archaeologists conducting research in the Wdecki Landscape Park, located in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship of Poland have unearthed a rare langsax long knife, with possible Viking origins.
The knife was discovered by chance, as researchers were searching for one of the lost battlefield sites from the Polish-Pomeranian conflict of AD 1091, where Duke Władysław I Herman of Poland attempted to annex the region of Pomerania.

Archaeologists Mateusz Sosnowski, who participates and coordinates research on behalf of the Wdecki Landscape Park described the blade as a “loose find”, as there were no cultural layers in situ to indicate a wider connection with the surroundings.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/0...scovery/139946
 
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Diving among ancient ruins where Romans used to party


Aug 21, 2021

Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted and flirted in the party town of Baiae, now an underwater archaeological park near Naples.

Statues which once decorated luxury abodes in this beachside resort are now playgrounds for crabs off the coast of Italy, where divers can explore ruins of palaces and domed bathhouses built for emperors.

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ancient-romans-party.html
 
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New research shows men and women of Roman Herculaneum had different diets


25 August 2021

Archaeologists examining the Herculaneum skeletal remains of the victims of Vesuvius say they have helped shed new light on the eating habits of ancient Romans - with food differentiated along gender lines and revealing women ate more animal products and locally grown fruit and vegetables while the men dined on more expensive fish.

New research shows men and women of Roman Herculaneum had different diets - News and events, University of York
 
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Ancient monument linked to King Arthur is older than Stonehenge, research finds


August 27, 2021

A mysterious stone tomb in western England — known as Arthur’s Stone because of its links to the mythical King Arthur — originated almost 6,000 years ago as part of an elaborate “ceremonial landscape” across the whole area, according to archaeologists.

Excavations this year near the ancient stone structure in rural Herefordshire, just east of the River Wye between England and Wales, show that the site was first occupied by an earthen mound pointing to another ancient structure nearby; but that a few hundred years later, it was rebuilt and realigned to point to hills much farther south, project leader Julian Thomas, a professor of archaeology at the University of Manchester in the U.K., told Live Science in an email.

“This is a ceremonial landscape like those around Stonehenge or Avebury, but rather earlier,” Thomas said. “It certainly implies that this is a location that was politically or spiritually important at the start of the Neolithic.”

https://www.livescience.com/king-art...tonehenge.html
 
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Researchers identify record number of ancient elephant bone tools


Aug 30, 2021

Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones.

In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in Italy where large numbers of elephants had died. The team discovered that humans at this site roughly 400,000 years ago appropriated those carcasses to produce an unprecedented array of bone tools—some crafted with sophisticated methods that wouldn't become common for another 100,000 years.

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ancien...one-tools.html
 
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Ancient Jordanian town destroyed by a meteor blast may have inspired Biblical stories, scientists say

Sep 24, 2021

A thriving town in the Jordan River valley was utterly annihilated by the explosion of a meteor 3,600 years ago, which produced a flash and shock wave that scorched and shattered buildings, animals and people.

That's the scenario painted by a large collaboration of archaeologists, earth and space scientists who have been studying the remains of the Bronze Age town at a site called Tall el-Hammam in Jordan, not far from the Dead Sea.

Before its destruction, Tall el-Hammam was a bustling town of perhaps 8,000 people, with mud-brick buildings and a four-story palace. There is evidence that the site of the town had been occupied for several thousand years.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-...-say-1.6187436
 
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Amateur free divers find gold treasure dating to the fall of the Roman Empire


September 27, 2021

Two amateur divers swimming along the Spanish coast have discovered a huge hoard of 1,500-year-old gold coins, one of the largest on record dating to the Roman Empire.

The divers, brothers-in-law Luis Lens Pardo and César Gimeno Alcalá, discovered the gold stash while vacationing with their families in Xàbia, a coastal Mediterranean town and tourist hotspot. The duo rented snorkeling equipment so they could go freediving with the goal of picking up trash to beautify the area, but they found something far richer when Lens Pardo noticed the glimmer of a coin at the bottom of Portitxol Bay on Aug. 23, El País reported.

https://www.livescience.com/divers-f...in-hoard-spain
 
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Byzantine Warrior With Gold-Threaded Jaw Found in Greece

Oct 2, 2021

A Byzantine warrior whose previously-broken jaw was mended with gold thread has been unearthed in Greece; new scholarship has revealed that he had been operated on using a technique propounded by the Greek physician Hippocrates 1,800 years earlier.

Killed on the battlefield in a desperate fight against the Ottomans in the fourteenth century, his jaw had been shattered by a blow at least ten years earlier.

https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/02...ed-jaw-greece/
 
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