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  • Prevalence of Butchered Horse Bones Dispels Myths About Christian Dietary Habits
    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...
  • Lost Palace of Thracian King Unearthed in Bulgaria
    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...
  • Pierced Human Rib Bone Hints at 4,000-Year-Old Attack
    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...
  • Well-Preserved Roman Road Found Beneath English City Center
    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...
  • 6,000-Year-Old Temple in Turkey Provides Evidence of Human and Animal Sacrifice
    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...
  • African Craftspeople Journeyed Long Distances to Obtain Perfectly Colored Stones
    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...
  • Bags Decorated with Dog Teeth Recovered from Ancient Graves
    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...
  • Tomb of First Maya Ruler of Caracol Unearthed in Belize
    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...
  • 5,500-Year-Old Polish "Pyramids" Discovered
    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...
  • Engraved Rock Art May Be Linked to Egypt's Earliest Rulers
    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...
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