EAST RENFREWSHIRE, SCOTLAND—According to a report in The Glasgow Times , a circular structure made of blonde sandstone was uncovered during a construction project in Barrhead, which is located ...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12352-240426-scotland-water-system
VALENCIA, SPAIN—Newsweek reports that a sword discovered in 1994 in a historic section of Valencia has been dated to the tenth century A.D. by the Archaeology Service of the Valencia City Counc...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12351-240426-spain-islamic-sword
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Gweagal spears, a collection made up of one hunting spear and three fishing spears that were taken from the Gweagal people of Kama...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12350-240426-australia-gweagal-spears
NAPLES, ITALY—Graziano Ranocchia of the University of Pisa and his colleagues have used infrared and ultraviolet optical imaging, thermal imaging, tomography, and artificial intelligence to dec...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12353-240426-herculaneum-philodemus-scroll
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—A rare sandstone sculpture of a turtle has been found at Bayon Temple in the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, according to a report in The Phnom Penh Post . The Bayo...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12349-240425-cambodia-angkor-turtle
MADRID, SPAIN—A new study of pyramids at the ancient city of Teotihuacan by a team of Spanish geologists has documented damage to the structures caused by five devastating megathrust earthquake...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12348-240425-mexico-teotihuacan-earthquakes
PARIS, FRANCE—According to a Live Science report, near the village of Chamborêt north of the French city of Limoges, archaeologists have uncovered a freshwater spring likely dating to betwe...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12347-240425-france-neolithic-spring
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI—According to an Atlas Obscura report, a “porcelain gallbladder” has been identified among a woman's 100-year-old bones exhumed from the cemetery at the site of the Mis...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12346-240424-mississippi-porcelain-gallbladder
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—The foundation of an eighteenth-century house was uncovered during an excavation at Colonial Williamsburg, according to a WAVY report. The Colin G. and Nancy N. Campbell...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12345-240424-virginia-williamsburg-foundation
RINGSTED, DENMARK—Live Science reports that a miniature bronze alloy fitting bearing a portrait of Alexander the Great was discovered on an island in Denmark by a pair of metal detectorists wh...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12344-240424-denmark-alexander-bronze
CUMBRIA, ENGLAND—An excavation conducted in northern England ahead of a road improvement project along an ancient pathway has uncovered flint tools dated to the Upper Paleolithic period, accord...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12342-240423-england-paleolithic-pit
CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a fragment of a sculpture of Ramesses II stolen some 30 years ago was handed over to Egyptian authorities by Swiss officials. The 3,400-year-old carving,...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12339-240423-egypt-repatriation-sculpture
WROCŁAW, POLAND—IFL Science reports that a team of researchers led by Tomasz Płonka and Andrzej Wiśniewski of the University of Wrocław has examined an engraved bear bone with microscopy a...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12340-240423-neanderthal-engraved-bone
MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA—According to a Washington Post report, two bottles containing liquid and some surviving cherries have been uncovered in the dirt basement of George Washington’s planta...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12341-240423-mount-vernon-cherries
KRAKOW, POLAND—Live Science reports that an eighteenth-century palatal obturator has been found with the remains of a man with a cleft palate who was buried in a crypt at the Church of St. Fra...
http://www.archaeology.org/news/12338-240422-poland-palatal-obturator