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Splintered equid femur from the Ottoman-period Dombóvár–Gólyavár fort, with arrow showing hack mark STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—Archaeologists and historians have long believed that there was a direct correlation between the adoption of Christianity in Europe and the decline of horsemeat consumption. While the Catholic Church never expressively forbade the eating of...

VRATSA, BULGARIA—BNT News reports that Bulgarian archaeologists may have made one of the most spectacular discoveries in the country’s recent history—a palace and tomb belonging to a powerful Thracian king for which researchers had been searching for five decades. The breakthrough came during construction of a new apartment building in...

Flint arrowhead embedded in human rib ROC DE LES ORENTES, SPAIN—Millennia ago, a local community living high in the Catalan Pyrenees mountains near present-day Girona buried their dead in a cave over a period of two or three centuries. Excavations in recent years at the site, which is known...

Section of Roman road, Manchester, England Decorated Samian ware fragment MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—According to a BBC report, archaeologists were surprised to find a Roman road just beneath the surface of Manchester's city center. It is remarkable that the 2,000-year-old road is so well-preserved, given that it lies only 15...

TADIM MOUND, TURKEY—Excavations at the site of Tadım Mound near Elaziğ in eastern Turkey have provided new information about millennia-old ritual and religious practices, the Daily Sabah reports. The 115-foot hill is currently being investigated by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in coordination with the Provincial Directorate of Culture...

Natural outcrop of green chalcedony in the Mgwayiza Valley, Eswatini LOBAMBA, ESWATINI—Thousands of years ago, it was so essential that craftspeople in southern Africa had just the right colored stone to make their tools that they regularly traveled long distances to obtain them, according to a statement released by...

Grave of a man of the Corded Ware culture buried with a stone ax and pottery, Krauschwitz, Germany KRAUSCHWITZ, GERMANY—During construction of new powerlines through Saxony-Anhalt, workers uncovered numerous ancient burials from various time periods, including several noteworthy graves of women from the third millennium b.c. who were laid...

Ceramic vessel interior painted with an image of a hummingbird CARACOL, BELIZE—According to a statement released by The University of Houston, archaeologists working at the Maya city of Caracol recently made a groundbreaking discovery—the tomb of the city’s very first ruler, a man called Te K’ab Chaak. It is...

Excavation of a tomb enclosure in Chłapowski Landscape Park, Wyskoć, Poland WYSKOĆ, POLAND—Notes from Poland reports that during a routine archaeological survey of Chlapowski Landscape Park in Wyskoć, a team from Adam Mickiewicz University located two monumental triangular structures sometimes referred to as “Polish pyramids.” These complexes served as...

Image of a boat engraved on rock face in Aswan, Egypt (top), and drawing of the scene (above) ASWAN, EGYPT—La Brújula Verde reports that a recently discovered rock art panel near Aswan in the Lower Nile Valley is providing new clues about a pivotal time in Egyptian history—the very...

In the last two decades, mass digitization has dramatically changed the landscape of scholarly research. The ability to search digital transcriptions of sources for specific keywords saves valuable time, and scholars are no longer confined to archives and libraries if they wish to comb through a text....

A team of researchers, led by Dr. Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, recently provided a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of a sperm-whale tooth found in the Copper Age mega-site of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (henceforth referred to as Valencina)....

Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, despite living close by and using similar tools and resources. Scientists think they might have been passing down...

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long-lost treasure of English culture, was a chivalric romance not a monster-filled epic. The discovery solves the most famous mystery in Chaucer's writings...

It turns out the Dark Ages weren't all that dark. According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously thought, and some of its remedies are trending today on TikTok....

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge claims of a 65,000-year-old human arrival in Sahul—the ancient paleocontinent that existed during the Pleistocene ice age, made up of present-day Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea....

Beneath the epic tales of heroes and gods, Troy's true story is written in something far less glamorous—its rubbish....

Donkeys played an important role in the lives of ancient Mediterranean people, providing both food and a means of carrying goods. New evidence from an early Bronze Age (2900–2600/2550 BCE) archaeological site in modern-day Israel shows that certain donkeys were also used in ritualistic sacrifices. The study, published in PLOS...

Archaeological analysis of horse remains from medieval Hungary indicates people continued to eat horses long after the country's conversion to Christianity, suggesting the decline in horsemeat consumption (hippophagy) in the region was not for religious reasons, questioning the prevailing historical narrative....

A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai. Her research sheds light on the possible factors that influenced these changes, leading to realistic elk images devolving into warped wolf-like beasts....