Archaeologists Were Preparing a Site for Hospital Construction—and Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Graves

Experts uncovered 34 Roman-era graves, some of which had multiple burials inside.
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A Roman wall just rewrote Switzerland's history

Most major archaeological discoveries don't start with anything dramatic. They start with a gravel pit. That's exactly what happened in Cham, a small municipality in the canton of Zug in central ...
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2,000-Year-Old Ruins Of A Roman Forum Were Uncovered During Hotel Renovations In Downtown Barcelona

During renovations at the Gran Hotel Barcino, archaeologists found stone slabs from the public forum of the ancient Roman colony of Barcino.

Archaeologists Were Digging Through Rubble—and Found the 1,500-Year-Old Head of a Roman Statue

He’ll need some freshening up.

Ancient sanctuary tied to 'most mysterious' cult uncovered in rare find beneath historic city

A rare Roman temple dedicated to mystery cult deity Mithras was discovered in Germany, with the oldest-known sanctuary in Bavaria dating to the first or second centuries A.D.

A new exhibit shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the time of death

A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, ...

Can this medieval shipwreck rewrite ancient history?

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.
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A Czech Man Used This Stone in His Barn’s Foundations. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...