6+ hour, 46+ min ago   (411+ words) A stretch of desert north of Saqqara, first scratched in the 19th century, has surrendered another secret. For more than 4000 years, the sand covered a mastaba whose painted walls survived almost untouched by time. A joint Spanish-Egyptian mission returning to a…...

34+ min ago   (371+ words) An excavation project at a Bronze Age site could see the area removed from a register of at-risk historical locations, the government has said. Ancient remains at Flag Fen archaeological park near Peterborough are deteriorating because of degrading groundwater levels,…...

29+ min ago   (435+ words) 13.25 13 Sep 2026 New cave paintings suggest that there were human beings in Ireland 5,000 years earlier than first thought, potentially rewriting history. It's not every day you get to see something that could rewrite Irish history firsthand, but that's the opportunity that…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (373+ words) Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, opium, magic mushrooms… Humanity has known (and used!) these psychoactive substances for a long, long time. Some of them, like tobacco and alcoholic beverages, have been around for over 10,000 years. But what purpose did they serve? Were…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (278+ words) The Black Sea is the largest body of permanently anoxic (completely lacking oxygen) water on the planet. Its unusual chemistry begins with the way its waters are layered. Freshwater from rivers including the Danube and Dnieper floats above denser, saltier…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (217+ words) A saga of resilience of the Turkish nation, the Battle of Sakarya is vividly remembered 105 years later. The 1921 victory over occupying Greek forces was commemorated on Sunday with a message from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who highlighted how Türkiye remained…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago   (555+ words) Archaeologists will begin a major six-month excavation next year to recover information preserved in the peat before it is lost forever Archaeologists will begin a new dig at one of Britain’s most important Bronze Age sites next year before information…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (525+ words) Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed throughout the plaster itself rather than painted on top of it....

2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (522+ words) A 3,600-year-old burial in western Azerbaijan has yielded weapons and other objects linked to a high-ranking Bronze Age warrior. Archaeologists found the artifacts in Kurgan No. 4 in the Sariyokhush area of the Keshikchidagh State Historical and Cultural Reserve, in Agstafa…...

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