A soapstone vessel filled with hundreds of Late Antique gold coins was found at the site of Como, Italy's former Cressoni Theater. #FBF
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Archaeology Magazine
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Archaeology Magazine tells the story of the human past through articles that explore the latest discoveries from around the world.
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- A 9,000-year-old hunting shrine in the deserts of southeastern Jordan is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022. archaeology.org/issues/495-fea…
- 23,000-year-old human footprints uncovered in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021. archaeology.org/issues/451-220…
- A 6th-century Lombard warrior buried in northern Italy appears to have worn a knife as a prosthetic weapon in place of his forearm, which had been amputated archaeology.org/issues/304-180…
- Cleaning of the interior of Luxor’s Temple of Esna has revealed images of 46 birds arranged in two rows. archaeology.org/news/10545-220…
- A well-preserved road made of oak logs dating to the 1200s has been uncovered by archaeologists in the center of Berlin. archaeology.org/issues/484-220…
- Traces of a 5th-century Byzantine basilica were spotted under the waters of Turkey’s Lake Iznik during a helicopter survey. #FBF archaeology.org/issues/161-150…
- A 9,000-year-old hunting shrine in the deserts of southeastern Jordan is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022. archaeology.org/issues/495-fea…
- Massive reliefs of camels and wild donkeys carved into a cliffside in Saudi Arabia, which were recently dated to the mid-6th millennium B.C., are one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021. archaeology.org/issues/451-220…
- From the Archives: A man scraping down plaster on the walls of his home in Chajul, Guatemala, inadvertently uncovered a series of murals that had been painted by his Ixil Maya ancestors in the years directly after the Spanish conquest. archaeology.org/issues/60-1301…
- Excavations of a 4th-century B.C. mound in western Russia uncovered the remains of four female Scythian warriors buried with horse tackle and weapons. #FBF archaeology.org/issues/380-200…
- From the Archives: 49 footprints, which were left nearly a million years ago by a small group of hominins walking along an English coastal estuary 140 miles northeast of London, are some of the oldest ever discovered outside of Africa. archaeology.org/issues/132-140…
- The remains of a knight who sustained jousting injuries were unearthed among some 2,500 skeletons at England's Hereford Cathedral. #TBT archaeology.org/issues/188-150…
- Two 3,500-year-old clay pig figurines, unearthed in a house at a Bronze Age hillfort in Poland, were probably either toys or objects used in sacred rituals. archaeology.org/issues/401-201…
