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Kayra Buyukyildirim

Kayra Buyukyildirim is a developer and webmaster of Arkeonews with 3 years of hands-on experience, including work on AI projects, and has been covering AI and archaeology for Arkeonews.

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Ancient glirarium on Display in Italian "Ghost Village" of Celleno. Credit: Giulio Gargiullo - Museo delle Maioliche Arcaiche

10 August 2026 Express

The Dormouse Fattening Jar That Finally Proves an Ancient Roman Secret

Drawing accompanying text in Book XII of the 16th-century Florentine Codex (compiled 1555–1576), showing Nahuas of conquest-era central Mexico with smallpox. Credit: Public Domain

9 August 2026 Ancient History

Why Archaeologists Can’t Find the Smallpox Graves Colonial History of the Americas Promised

The Esplanada mass grave at the Phaleron Burial Ground, where researchers uncovered the remains of 79 men, many still bound at the wrists with iron shackles. Credit: Giannis Asvestas, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, via Bérard, R.-M., & Castex, D., Athens Journal of History (2021)

9 August 2026 Ancient History

Shackled Men in Ancient Athens Mass Grave Were Locals, Not Invaders, Study Confirms

Blade of the "Lion Hunt Dagger", National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Credit: Public Domain

9 August 2026 Ancient Civilizations

Bronze Age Greek Rulers Wore “Space Bling”

Record-low Danube water levels near Dunaújváros have uncovered a Roman altar to Jupiter. Credit: Dr. Antal Szabó - Intercisa Museum

8 August 2026 Latest Archaeology News

Danube Drought Uncovers Roman Altar and Inscribed Tablets — Along With a Wartime Bomb Scare

Section of Neolithic storage pit with 1m scale. Credit: Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA)

7 August 2026 European Archaeology

How Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Dig Rewrote 6,000 Years of Suffolk History

6 August 2026 Classical Archaeology

Hidden for 1,500 Years, a Lavish Roman Imperial Complex Emerges Beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana

Archaeologists working at the ancient fortress-city of Artezian. Credit: Artesian Archaeological Expedition (AAE) via VK

6 August 2026 Classical Archaeology

Child Burial Discovered Beneath the Temple of Zeus in Crimea — Was It a Sacrifice?

Top-down aerial view of the circular structure at Tava Tepe. Credit: University of Catania

5 August 2026 Ancient History

Archaeologists Discover a 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen in Azerbaijan, Unique in the Caucasus

The Alblimes Road was built with locally available white Jurassic limestone from the weathered layers of the Swabian Jura, carefully laid to form the roadbed. Credit: Dr René Wollenweber, LAD.

3 August 2026 European Archaeology

Articles by Kayra Buyukyildirim

The Dormouse Fattening Jar That Finally Proves an Ancient Roman Secret

Why Archaeologists Can’t Find the Smallpox Graves Colonial History of the Americas Promised

Shackled Men in Ancient Athens Mass Grave Were Locals, Not Invaders, Study Confirms

Bronze Age Greek Rulers Wore “Space Bling”

Danube Drought Uncovers Roman Altar and Inscribed Tablets — Along With a Wartime Bomb Scare

How Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Dig Rewrote 6,000 Years of Suffolk History

Hidden for 1,500 Years, a Lavish Roman Imperial Complex Emerges Beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana

Child Burial Discovered Beneath the Temple of Zeus in Crimea — Was It a Sacrifice?

Archaeologists Discover a 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen in Azerbaijan, Unique in the Caucasus

Modern Highway Meets 2,000-Year-Old Roman Road