23+ hour, 25+ min ago   (525+ words) Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed throughout the plaster itself rather than painted on top of it....

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (340+ words) Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced the find on social media alongside a second discovery from this year’s campaign: a head of Eros, the Greek god of desire — a figure familiar to English speakers mainly through his Roman counterpart, Cupid — carved…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (945+ words) Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Paul Valery University of Montpellier demonstrate that outer anchorage areas were decisive in maritime traffic in Antiquity, which forces a rewriting of port importance rankings. Underwater archaeology is experiencing a silent revolution....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (817+ words) The fragment decorated with snake heads, discovered at the Collet site (Calonge), is one of the few pieces of its kind documented in the Iberian Peninsula and evidences the presence of Eastern cults in the rural sphere during the Augustan…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (880+ words) A 4th-century BC docking structure, located 130 meters from the Punta della Vipera sanctuary, remained submerged at less than two meters deep. A team of underwater archaeologists and geologists from Sapienza University of Rome and the Center for Maritime Studies has…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (890+ words) More than 120 Latin inscriptions and a set of offerings deposited by the water reveal an organized cult to an unknown divinity. A woman ventures into the mountain with a light and a spindle in her hands, walking through the passageways…...