5 February 2026
Rare Early Medieval Pendant Used to Identify a Princely Official Found in Staraya Ladoga
Archaeologists in Old Ladoga have discovered a rare medieval pendant bearing the Rurikid trident — an…
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Russian Academy of Sciences
4 February 2026
Bears in a Sacrificial Pose: A Bronze Plaque from Early Medieval Altai Reveals an Unknown Southern Tradition
More than thirteen centuries after it was placed in the ground, a bronze plaque depicting bears…
22 October 2025
Unique Ancient Pottery Found in Siberia Could Belong to a Previously Unknown Bronze Age Culture
Archaeologists in Western Siberia have unearthed unique Bronze Age ceramics that could belong either to the…
21 July 2023
3,000-year-old ‘charioteer belt’ discovered in Siberia
Russian archaeologists uncovered the grave of a Late Bronze Age man buried wearing a "charioteer’s belt",…
27 June 2023
A rare Saint George seal was found during excavations near Suzdal
The archaeological survey of the Suzdal Opole, initiated by the Institute of Archeology of the Russian…
3 April 2022
Climate and Archaic humans caused the extinction of giant camels that lived in Mongolia 27,000 years ago, a study says
Camelus knoblochi, a species of giant two-humped camel, survived in Mongolia alongside modern humans—and perhaps Neanderthals…
19 January 2022
Mysterious Rods Found in 5,500-year-old Tomb identified to Be Earliest Drinking Straws
Russian archaeologists argue that the rods unearthed in an early bronze age tomb in the Caucasus…
19 November 2021
A unique find in the Middle Don: Scythian gods on a silver plate
Archaeologists of the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, during their excavations at the…