Another gold treasure in Norway: 1400 year old gold foil figures found in pagan temple (sciencenorway.no)
'Exceedingly rare' horse bridle discovered in melting ice in Norway could date to Viking Age (www.livescience.com)
1900-year-old Child’s Nightgown with intriguing knots found in the Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert (arkeonews.net)
The museum collections scene is the most realistic scene in Indiana Jones, cmv. (mander.xyz)
Child’s Grave Unearths Ancient Mystery: 9,000-Year-Old Necklace Redefines Neolithic Culture (scitechdaily.com)
An ancient necklace from a child’s grave in Jordan reveals the Neolithic culture’s social intricacies, highlighting the importance of adornments and suggesting complex societal dynamics of the period. Final physical reconstruction of the necklace, today exposed at the new museum of Petra in Jordan.
'Exceptional' 1,800-year-old sarcophagus unearthed in France held woman of 'special status' (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis in northeastern France have discovered an unlooted, unopened Roman-era sarcophagus dating to the second century A.D. The tomb likely holds the remains of an elite woman, archaeologists said.
Early Neolithic farmers arriving on the Baltic coast bucked trends and incorporated fish into their diets (phys.org)
Pioneering early farmers who arrived on the Baltic coast 6,000 years ago may have taken up fishing after observing indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, a major new study has found....
First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals (www.nature.com)
During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship between hominins and lions in earlier periods is poorly known and primarily interpreted as interspecies competition. Here we present new evidence for...
Researchers Are Breaking Ancient Language Barriers With AI - Decrypt (decrypt.co)
Using AI, researchers have been able to translate Akkadian into English using a relatively small number texts for the language model to work from.
How a Bronze Age rock became a 'treasure map' for researchers (phys.org)
A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a “treasure map” for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around north-western France....
Ancient rock engravings unveil intriguing insights into human cultures (phys.org)
A groundbreaking study conducted by a multidisciplinary team that include a computational archaeologist, artist, and computer programmer has revealed new insights into ancient rock engravings and the techniques used by ancient engravers. The research, carried out at Site 25 in Timna Park, Southern Israel, has captivated experts...
‘Exceptional’ Bronze Age artefacts unearthed in Switzerland (www.swissinfo.ch)
Origin of Ivory Rings Found in Elite Anglo-Saxon Burials (arkeonews.net)
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'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over ancient human relative remains sent to edge of space (www.livescience.com)
Fragmentary remains of two ancient human relatives, Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic flight on Sept. 8. Departing from Spaceport America in New Mexico, the fossils, carried by South African-born billionaire Timothy Nash in a cigar-shaped tube, were rocketed to the edge of space....
