Research cluster · 12 articles
Fresh archaeological and ancient-history research explained with the evidence, limits and publication context kept visible.
Çatalhöyük7 minÇatalhöyük had tightly packed mudbrick houses with few street-like gaps. See how roof access worked, what archaeologists found inside homes and why “rooftop city” is useful but imperfect.
New Discoveries7 minA small bronze wheeled object from Casas del Turuñuelo drew attention to Tartessian ritual and craftsmanship. See what archaeologists found and what the object can—and cannot—prove.
Early Christianity7 minA 3.5-centimetre silver amulet from a Roman grave at Nida preserves an 18-line Latin text that may push material evidence for Christianity north of the Alps back by decades.
Turin Shroud6 minA new metagenomic study mapped human, microbial, plant and animal traces in official 1978 Turin Shroud samples, but it did not authenticate the cloth.
Ancient Rome5 minAquincum Museum used forensic anthropology and ancient DNA to reconstruct 16 Roman-period faces, including six life-sized silicone models.
Human Evolution6 minMicroscopic analysis of Qafzeh 25 identified a healing sharp-force injury in a human dated between 92,000 and 145,000 years ago.
Stonehenge6 minTwo massive timber posts at Bulford were aligned with solstice sunrise and sunset about 500 years before Stonehenge’s stone circle.
Scythians6 minGenome-wide data from the Golden Man and 84 other Iron Age individuals suggest that Scythian elite status often moved through family networks.
Byzantine Egypt6 minA planned fourth-century city at Ain el-Sabil in Dakhla Oasis includes a basilica, watchtowers, houses and nearly 200 Greek and Coptic ostraca.
Roman Britain6 minA carved Roman Genius found beneath a fourth-century barrack floor at Vindolanda reveals the religious life and reuse of stone at the empire’s northern frontier.
Maya6 minA wall text at Xultun attributes a sophisticated 781 CE calendrical formula involving Venus, Mars and Maya time cycles to Sak Tahn Waax.
Ancient Egypt7 minEighteen burials and 24 thin gold tongue foils from Marina el-Alamein reveal how Egyptian, Greek and Roman funerary beliefs overlapped.
