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An Iron Age chariot has been found at a Yorkshire site during construction work, the second in less than two years. The discovery was made in the town of Pocklington, at Persimmon Homes site, at The Mile, where works for the construction of over 200 homes have started. Continue reading “Iron Age chariot found at construction site”
The third out of five seasons has been completed of systematic excavations conducted by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinth in the Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia, Nemea. Continue reading “An intact grave was found at the Aidonia cemetery”
Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned. Continue reading “Bronze Age bookkeeping tablets reveal complex society”
Important new data has come to light during the ongoing excavation works at Akrotiri, Thera conducted under the auspices of the Archaeological Society at Athens, headed by Professor Emeritus Mr. Christos Doumas and funded by the Kaspesky Lab. Inside an important, most probably public building, known as the “House of Benches,” where in 1999 the famous golden ibex had been found inside a clay larnax next to a pile of animals’ horns, amphoras were found this year under the destruction backfills in chronological order, together with small rectangular clay larnakes. Continue reading “Important finds from prehistoric Akrotiri, Thera”
Foundations of the original Roman road, traces of Roman life – and death – have been identified at the site, where major carriageway reconstruction and resurfacing is being carried out. Continue reading “Roman settlement discovered during A66 Eden Valley works”
Newly discovered remains of weapons, hobnails from sandals and coins will help experts piece together the untold story of how the Romans won control of Galicia and Northern Portugal from local tribes for the first time. Continue reading “Findings shed new light on Roman conquest of Northwest Iberia”
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