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Colossal rock engravings may be ancient borders, study suggests
Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as a sacrarium, or a space dedicated to ritual activities and the conversation of sacred objects, during recent evacuations in central Pompeii in Italy.
Italian Ministry of Culture
A blue painted shrine is the latest discovery in Pompeii ‘treasure chest’
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Perth Museum, Culture Perth & Kinross/Chris Rynn
Faces from Scotland’s past come to life after forensic reconstruction
Drawings depicting gladiators among latest discoveries at Pompeii
Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Pompeii gladiator drawings suggest children saw ‘extreme form’ of violence
Archaeologists have uncovered graves containing the remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists uncover ‘astonishing’ remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago
The skulls were examined using microscopic analysis and CT scanning
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Evidence of surgical tumor removal in ancient Egyptian skull is ‘milestone in the history of medicine’
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Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Ministero della Cultura
US returns $80 million-worth of stolen artifacts to Italy
TOPSHOT - A picture shows a section of Hadrian's Wall near the wall's milecastle 39 near Hexham, northern England, on January 19, 2022. This year marks the 1900 anniversary of the start of the construction of Hadrian's Wall, which took 6 years to complete and was built to guard the northern frontier of the Roman Empire in 122 AD. The wall ran for 73 miles from the Solway Firth to Wallsend on the River Tyne and is now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The wall featured over 80 milecastles or forts, two observation towers and 17 larger forts. After the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century, some 300 years after the wall was constructed, large sections of the wall fell into decay and were recycled into local buildings and houses. (Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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How Hadrian’s Wall is revealing a hidden side of Roman history
Scientists have developed a way to produce models of where the magnetic field lines are several times each day. Here we have created a time-lapse version of these models over four days (2-3 each day) to give you a peek at how these change over time. The spiraling arcs of magnetic field lines emerge from active regions and connect back to areas with the opposite polarity. The field lines are more concentrated where regions are more magnetically intense. And of course, they rotate with the rotation of the Sun.
NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
Scientists locate origin of the sun’s magnetic field
A view of the construction site of the new 25.5-kilometer Metro C subway main hub in Piazza Venezia in central Rome, Thursday, May 23, 2024. During a tour Thursday of the construction site at Piazza Venezia, chief engineer Andrea Sciotti said works on the nearly 3 billion euro project, considered one of the most complicated in the world, were running at pace to be completed by 2034. In the background the Unknown Soldier monument. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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Rome is building an eight-story underground museum – but treasures keep getting in the way
While renovating his wine cellar in Gobelsburg in the district of Krems, Andreas Pernerstorfer discovered a treasure: he came across huge bones that turned out to be Stone Age mammoth bones. He reported the find to the Federal Monuments Office, which referred him to the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW).
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Hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Austrian wine cellar
This undated photo taken by Colombia's Anthropology and History Institute, shows sunken remains from the San Jose on the sea floor off Cartagena, Colombia.
Colombia's Anthropology and History Institute/AP
Colombia launches expedition to explore 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck filled with sunken treasure
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Andre Pattenden/English Heritage
Rare lunar event may reveal Stonehenge’s link with the moon
The gold earring found by the scientists, photographed against a dark background, in front of the jar it was found in.
Marco Ansaloni
Gold earring found in burned ruins of an Iron Age village may reveal ‘moment in time,’ archaeologists say
Josh O'Connor as Arthur, a conflicted grave robber in Alice Rohrwacher's film "La Chimera."
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‘The past is not dead’: ‘La Chimera’s’ intoxicating look at archaeology unearths questions about Italy’s tomb raiders
Rock art depicting cattle, sheep, goat, and ibex.
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Unprecedented evidence humans occupied ‘lava tubes’ could fill in gaps in the archaeological record, scientists say