Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Longest Greek Papyrus from the Judean Desert Sheds Light on a Pivotal Roman Court Case

31 January 2025

New research by a group of Austrian and Israeli scholars has finally deciphered a 1,900-year-old scroll describing a tense court...

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40.000-Year-Old Mammoth Bones Discovered in a Wine Cellar in Austria

25 May 2024

A winemaker has discovered mammoth bones up to 30,000 to 40,000 years old in a wine cellar in Lower Austria. ...

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Radiocarbon dating makes it possible for the first time to check the extent to which archaeological findings match historical events from written sources

17 November 2023

Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have published a new radiocarbon dataset for Tel Gezer, one of the most...

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A fragment with the oldest Syriac translation of the New Testament discovered

7 April 2023

A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the help of ultraviolet photography, was able to discover a small...

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Sensational find in Ephesus: more than 1,400-year-old district discovered

29 October 2022

During this year’s excavations at Ephesus in Turkey, archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AW) discovered an incredibly well-preserved...

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New fibula types discovered at prehistoric Kopilo graves in Bosnia

26 August 2022

An archaeological dig at Kopilo, a hill settlement founded around 1300 BC about 70 miles west of Sarajevo, has discovered...

The Longest Greek Papyrus from the Judean Desert Sheds Light on a Pivotal Roman Court Case

40.000-Year-Old Mammoth Bones Discovered in a Wine Cellar in Austria

Radiocarbon dating makes it possible for the first time to check the extent to which archaeological findings match historical events from written sources

A fragment with the oldest Syriac translation of the New Testament discovered

Sensational find in Ephesus: more than 1,400-year-old district discovered

New fibula types discovered at prehistoric Kopilo graves in Bosnia

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