Arkeonews

12/05/2026

A Sealed Well and Bronze Sword Reveal the Iron Age Transformation of a 3,200-Year-Old Sardinian Tower

A 3,200-year-old nuraghe in Sardinia reveals how Bronze Age towers were reused as Iron Age cult sites through a sealed...

12/05/2026

First Large Iron Age House Found on Spain’s Cíes Islands Reveals a Settlement Before Rome

A windswept hillfort on Spain’s Cíes Islands has yielded the clearest evidence yet that people lived there long before the...

11/05/2026

More Than 800 Buried Traces Reveal a Prehistoric Settlement Larger Than Expected Near Germany’s Müritz Lakes

More than 800 archaeological features hidden beneath the route of a future German bypass are forcing researchers to rethink the...

11/05/2026

Ancient Iron Slags on Andros Point to a Hidden War-Era Industry from the Age After Alexander

Ancient iron slags from Paleopolis on Andros are revealing a hidden industry from the age after Alexander the Great, when...

10/05/2026

One of Europe’s Best-Preserved Medieval Ships Was Found Beneath a City, With Its 600-Year-Old Compass

In the heart of Tallinn, Estonia, an ordinary office construction project was expected to add another modern building to the...

09/05/2026

Helmets Once Thought to Be Ancient Reveal a Medieval Secret Beneath Spain’s Waters

For decades, the iron helmets recovered from the seabed near Benicarló seemed to belong to the ancient world. They were...

09/05/2026

Relief from Augusta Treverorum, 2nd–3rd century AD.

Two young people inspect a fringed scarf for weaving errors before it goes to market. The scene reflects the wealth textile production brought to Roman Trier.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.

09/05/2026

Rare Viking Gold Hoard Found Near Rold Becomes Denmark’s Third-Largest Viking-Age Gold Discovery

A flash of gold in the soil beside a forest track has led archaeologists in northern Denmark to one of...

08/05/2026

A 1,600-Year-Old Purse Found in a Roman Fort in Belgium May Reveal How People Paid After Rome’s Money Ran Out

At first glance, it looked like little more than a compact lump of earth, corroded metal and mineralized textile. But...

08/05/2026

Cut-Marked Human Bones in Denmark Reveal a Disturbing Stone Age Mystery

Along the vanished shore of a prehistoric fjord in eastern Jutland, archaeologists are returning to one of Denmark’s most unsettling...

08/05/2026

Domitian’s Egypt in miniature.

Struck in Alexandria in 86–87 CE, this Roman Provincial coin shows the emperor on one side and Nilus, the personification of the Nile, on the reverse.

The sixteen childlike figures around him represent the ideal 16-cubit flood, vital for Egypt’s harvest.

📍 Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford