US accused of sending fake Roman mosaics back to Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities in New York have been accused by leading academics in France and Britain of repatriating fake Roman artefacts to Lebanon....
That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school (www.theguardian.com)
Missing topographical elements of Paleolithic rock art revealed by stereoscopic imaging (phys.org)
What the hell, here it is: ArchaeoGPT (electricarchaeology.ca)
More info on Shawn’s Masto: scholar.social/
'No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art as portrayed in Netflix documentary, researchers argue (www.livescience.com)
There’s “no convincing scientific evidence” behind the extraordinary claims that the ancient human relative Homo naledi deliberately buried their dead and engraved rocks deep in a South African cave around 300,000 years ago, a group of archaeologists argues in a new commentary....
More than 3,000 Roman coins and gems unearthed at 'magical place' in northern Italy (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed more than 3,000 coins and 50 gems, many of which were emblazoned with the images of ancient Roman deities....
2,800-year-old ivory carved with sphinx discovered in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
Physics reveals secret of how nature helped sculpt the Great Sphinx of Giza (arstechnica.com)
4,000-year-old tomb discovered in Norway may contain region's 1st farmers (www.livescience.com)
A 4,000-year-old stone-lined tomb discovered during construction work in Norway may provide new clues about the first farmers who settled the region, archaeologists say....
Cult temples and sacrificial pit unearthed at ancient Roman camp in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of two Roman temples and a sacrificial pit in Germany....
Stone Age Europeans mastered spear-throwers 10,000 years earlier than we thought, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests....
Archaeologists Unearth a Secret Lost Language From 3,000 Years Ago (www.sciencealert.com)
'Magical' Roman wind chime with phallus, believed to ward off evil eye, unearthed in Serbia (www.livescience.com)
Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins (www.nature.com)
Data regarding the subsistence base of early hominins are heavily biased in favor of the animal component of their diets, in particular the remains of large mammals, which are generally much better preserved at archaeological sites than the bones of smaller animals, let alone the remains of plant food. Exploitation of smaller...
Maya warrior statue with serpent helmet discovered at Chichén Itzá (www.livescience.com)
Skulls in Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East (theconversation.com)
Giant 200,000-year-old stone hand ax discovered in desert—"Amazing" (www.newsweek.com)
Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized (hyperallergic.com)
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear (acoup.blog)
Rare Ovarian Tumor Discovered in Egyptian New Kingdom Burial - Archaeology Magazine (www.archaeology.org)
Copper Age woman survived two skull surgeries up to 4,500 years ago (www.livescience.com)
Thousands of years ago, a woman underwent two surgeries to her head — and survived both procedures, her skull reveals....
500-year-old Hebrew note reveals 'lost' earthquake swarm in Italy (www.livescience.com)
Headless skeletons in China represent the largest known headhunting massacre from Neolithic Asia (www.livescience.com)
Ancient headless skeletons recovered from mass graves in China are the remains of victims who were massacred around 4,100 years ago in headhunting events, including the largest on record from Neolithic Asia, a new study finds....
New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia's Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid [See comments.] (phys.org)
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912