Family Ties: Giant family trees based on ancient DNA from thousands of people are revealing prehistoric politics and social structure (www.science.org)
'Spectacular' hall, likely used by Nordic Bronze Age royalty, unearthed in Germany (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the remains of a massive hall that was likely used by royalty roughly 3,000 years ago....

Some Hongshan culture (6700BP-4900BP) artifacts from northeast China (feddit.nl)
https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/fc0e1abd-b6e0-4426-b882-fae8fac96515.jpeg...

Statue of Greek Goddess Aphrodite Uncovered in Turkey (greekreporter.com)
A statue of the goddess Aphrodite was uncovered during excavations carried out in the Ancient Greek city of Amastris in today’s Turkey.

Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany (www.livescience.com)

Practical Religion: Ancient Rituals as 'Vaccination' (eleanorkonik.substack.com)

3,500-Year-Old Book of Spells to Guide The Dead Uncovered With Egyptian Mummies (www.sciencealert.com)

Larger-scale warfare may have occurred in Europe 1,000 years earlier than previously thought (phys.org)
A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe, occurring over 1,000 years before the previous earliest known larger-scale conflict in the region....

Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain (www.livescience.com)

Sacrificial pits filled with 120 horse skeletons found in Bronze Age city in China (www.livescience.com)

Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts (www.theguardian.com)
Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts...

Circular temple dedicated to Maya serpent deity discovered in Mexico (www.livescience.com)

I spy with my Cold War satellite eye... nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East (arstechnica.com)
Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.

Prehistoric human migration in Southeast Asia driven by sea-level rise, study reveals (phys.org)

Depiction of Trojan War hero Ajax found in 1,800-year-old submerged building in Greece (www.livescience.com)

After Discovering Elaborate Frescos in Pompeii, Archeologists Uncover An 'Electoral Poster' Alongside a Household Shrine (news.artnet.com)

Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia (phys.org)

Caution! Contents were hot: Novel biomarkers to detect the heating of fatty acids in residues from pottery use (www.sciencedirect.com)

Neanderthal stone tools discovered in Racibórz (scienceinpoland.pl)

Assyrian Women of Letters - Archaeology Magazine (www.archaeology.org)
Rare cross-shaped reliquary unearthed from medieval knight's home in Poland (www.livescience.com)

2,000-year-old decorated Roman sandal unearthed in Spain (www.livescience.com)

Ancient Tablet Shows Babylonians Knew Pythagorean Theorem 1000 Years Before Pythagoras (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
