Rungholt was a medieval town in North Frisia, that according to local legend, was engulfed by the sea during the Saint Marcellus’s flood in 1362. The Saint Marcellus’s flood was…
Category: Archaeology
Roman settlement discovered on the Palomba-Catenanuova route
Archaeologists have discovered a Roman settlement and cemetery during works on the Palomba-Catenanuova route in Sicily. The Palomba-Catenanuova route is a rail link currently under modernisation to connect northern and…
Two Roman villas found near ancient Wroxeter
Archaeologists conducting a geophysical survey for the National Trust have discovered two Roman villas near the ancient city of Wroxeter (Viriconium Cornoviorum), England. Wroxeter was a major Roman centre, first…
Study challenges the narrative of Cahokia’s abandonment
A new study, published in the Sage Journal, casts doubt on the popular theory of why Cahokia was abandoned. Cahokia was the largest urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, a…
Excavation uncovers traces of how ancient Britons adapted to the Roman conquest
Archaeologists from Bournemouth University (BU) have been excavating several Iron Age settlements near the village of Winterborne Kingston in southern England. The team has uncovered 2,000-year-old burial pits containing the…
Archaeologists find Roman defensive wall built to trap Spartacus
A team of archaeologists, led by Dr. Paolo Visona of the University of Kentucky, have discovered a Roman defensive wall built to trap Spartacus in south-central Calabria, southern Italy. Most…
Study establishes revised radiocarbon dating of the Kyrenia shipwreck
A new study, published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, has applied new radiocarbon calibration techniques to date the Kyrenia shipwreck. The Kyrenia is an ancient Greek merchant ship discovered…
New study upends prevailing theory on transportation of Stonehenge bluestones
A new study, published in the Quaternary Newsletter journal, suggests that the Bristol Channel was a glacial transport route. This is evidenced by a large glacial erratic discovered in Limeslade…
Byzantine bucket pieces found at Sutton Hoo excavation
Archaeologists have unearthed missing fragments of the Bromeswell bucket, a 6th-century Byzantine artefact first discovered at Sutton Hoo, England, during the 1980s. As part of a two-year research project, excavations…
Archaeologists unearth significant religious treasure
Archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck have uncovered a 1,500-year-old reliquary during excavations of a hilltop settlement in southern Austria. The settlement is located on the summit of Burgbichl, a…
