The mosaic, recovered in 1860s Reims, France and dated to the third century CE, shows about 35 different gladiatorial and hunting scenes, each surrounded by diamond or square-shaped decorations.
Researchers trace Stolzenberg’s origins to the 14th or 15th centuries on the historically disputed border between Pomerania and Neumark.
The sling bullet found in 2025 at Hippos is the first inscribed bullet to be discovered at the site in 26 years of excavations.
Despite the city’s exposure to repeated floods over centuries, the preservation of its walls and urban fabric is described as unexpectedly good.
Seafloor surveys near the 2,300-year-old ancient Greek city mapped a harbor basin and cataloged multiple hulls.
The mausoleum stands along the Appian Way between ancient Caudium and Montesarchio.
Excavations on Peru's coast reveal pre-Inca parrot husbandry, radiocarbon-dated to 1100-1450, and long-distance transport from the Amazon basin.
The real story of its finding unfolded in the late 1990s on the forested crest of the Mittelberg in Saxony-Anhalt, where the object lay concealed for thousands of years.
The coin’s age and iconography identify it with Gadir, a settlement founded by the Phoenicians and considered Carthage’s first colony in Western Europe.
A page long thought missing from the Archimedes Palimpsest has been identified at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France.
Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a closer resemblance to east african fossils in the orbital region
