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Discovery of a dog in the lake sediment. The dog was lifted together with the sediment in a block, which could then be carefully examined on land. Credit: Arkeologerna, SHM.

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Well-Preserved A Dog, a Bone Dagger: Inside a 5,000-Year-Old Burial Beneath a Swedish Lake

16 December 2025

By the edge of a vanished lake in southern Sweden, archaeologists have uncovered a burial so rare it reshapes what...

Anatolian Archeology, News

Monumental Hellenistic Goddess Head Unearthed at Metropolis May Depict Hestia, Guardian of the Hearth

16 December 2025

A remarkable marble head believed to belong to a monumental goddess statue from the Hellenistic period has been unearthed at...

Mesopotamia, News

8,000-Year-Old Botanical Art Reveals Humanity’s Earliest Mathematical Thinking

15 December 2025

Long before numbers were written on clay tablets or calculations recorded in cuneiform, early farming communities in the Near East...

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The First Ancient Celtic Languages Dictionary Reconstructs Britain and Ireland’s Early Linguistic Past

15 December 2025

Aberystwyth scholars unite fragments of language to reveal the forgotten linguistic landscape of the Celtic world For centuries, the ancient...

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From the Balkans to Rome: How Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo Quietly Strengthened an Empire

14 December 2025

For centuries, the strength of the Roman Empire has been explained through its armies, its roads, and its conquests. Histories...

A diver measures the height of an upright granite monolith on the submerged structure; the measuring rod visible in the image is 1 meter long. Photo credit: SAMM, 2023. Study by Yves Fouquet et al., International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2025).

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A 7,800-Year-Old Massive Stone Wall Discovered Beneath the Sea off the Coast of France

13 December 2025

Several meters beneath the restless waters off western France, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a monumental stone construction that...

Dead Sea Scroll 109, Qohelet or Ecclesiastes, from Qumran Cave 4, the Jordan Museum in Amman. Wikipedia

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A 2,000-Year-Old Mystery Unlocked: Scholar Cracks the “Cryptic B” Writing of the Dead Sea Scrolls

13 December 2025

For over seventy years, one of the last undeciphered writing systems of the Dead Sea Scrolls—known as Cryptic B—has puzzled...

Artistic reconstruction of the Bad Dürrenberg Shaman’s ceremonial attire featuring feather adornments. © Karol Schauer | Copyright: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt

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The 9,000-Year-Old Bad Dürrenberg Shaman Reveals New Clues to Europe’s Earliest Ritual Traditions

12 December 2025

On a quiet rise above the Saale River, long before agriculture reshaped the landscapes of Europe, a woman was laid...

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Not From Denmark After All: Legendary Hjortspring Boat Linked to Baltic Raiders

11 December 2025

One of Northern Europe’s most enigmatic archaeological finds—the 2,400-year-old Hjortspring Boat—may finally be giving up its secrets. New scientific analyses,...

Anatolian Archeology, News

Gürcütepe’s 9,000-Year-Old Figurines Offer Rare Clues to Life After Taş Tepeler’s Monumental Age

11 December 2025

Just southeast of Şanlıurfa, on the northwestern edge of the vast Harran Plain, a small but exceptionally informative archaeological site...

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