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Archaeologists uncover monumental Iron Age necropolis in Trento, Italy
A recent find in Trento, Italy, has brought new understanding of the city's old history. Excavations on Via Santa Croce...
Secret tunnels under Milan’s Sforza Castle may match Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches
A recent study led by the Politecnico di Milano uncovered a series of underground tunnels beneath Sforza Castle, some of...
Deliberate engravings on Middle Paleolithic stone tools reveal early human symbolic thought in the Levant
A new study has shown strong proof that early humans in the Levant during the Middle Paleolithic era carved geometric...
AI reveals first look inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll
One of the world's oldest scrolls, dating back two millennia, originating from the lost Roman city of Herculaneum, long considered...
Ancient DNA from El Mirón Cave reveals a 46,000-year lineage of the Red Lady
About 19,000 years ago, a prehistoric woman was buried inside El Mirón Cave, a huge rock shelter in Northern Spain....
Archaeologists uncover 7th-century pagan cult site with ritual offerings in the Netherlands
A team of archaeologists has uncovered a unique early medieval cult site in the eastern Netherlands, near the hamlet of...
Read moreLost 15th-century Zapotec city unearthed in Mexican jungle
A recent study using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has uncovered the true magnitude of Guiengola, a 15th-century Zapotec...
18,000-year-old evidence of cultural cannibalism uncovered in Poland’s Maszycka Cave
A new study published in Scientific Reports provides evidence of cultural cannibalism among the Magdalenian communities in Maszycka Cave, Poland....
Archaeologists uncover 1.5-million-year-old hand axes in Iraqi desert
A team of archaeologists has made a breakthrough in Iraq’s Western Desert, where seven Paleolithic sites have been discovered comprising...
Extraordinary painted tomb discovered in Tarquinia’s Etruscan necropolis in Italy
A painted chamber tomb from the mid-5th century BCE was discovered in the Monterozzi Necropolis of Tarquinia, Italy. The tomb,...