Metal detectorist unwittingly discovers strange hoard of hundreds of ancient objects: 'Rarely seen'
British archaeologists recently uncovered a remarkable collection of two-millennia-old artifacts dating back to the Iron Age, ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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Metal detectorist finds 800 ancient artifacts buried in northern England that could rewrite Iron Age Britain
Hundreds of ancient chariot pieces and ceremonial weapons were found buried in Yorkshire it's challenging everything we know ...
Submerged ancient settlements and the paints of Pompeii: See the latest discoveries
From ancient Roman structures under homes to Viking jewelry in a wetland, here are some of the latest archaeological discoveries.
‘Perfect’ prehistoric artifact — ‘painstakingly’ crafted — discovered in UK. See it
“Our Milton Keynes team have unearthed this PERFECT Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead near Northampton,” officials with Cotswold Archaeology said in a March 10 Facebook post. “Found in a pit near a ...
Soldier unearths 2,600-year-old burial site, Greek artifacts in Ukraine. See the finds
One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, ...
U.S. troops accused of damaging Babylon's ancient wonder
The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...
Amateur metal detector uncovers massive Iron Age treasure hoard
“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain ...
Greek Reporter2d
6,000-Year-Old Sacred Hearths and Artifacts Found in Elazığ, Turkey
Excavations in Elazığ, Turkey, reveal 6,000-year-old hearths and artifacts, offering new insight into ancient civilizations.
Race to save lives and ancient artefacts in South Korea as wildfires rage
Firefighters in South Korea are racing to save lives and ancient artefacts from the largest wildfire in the country's history ...
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An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
Greece -- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a ...
Miami Herald10d
3,100-year-old tomb of military leader found in Egypt. Take a look at its treasures
Archaeologists in Ismailia Governorate found the 3,100-year-old tomb of military leader with jars, arrowheads and other artifacts, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...