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Türkiye's culture minister and the BBC described a wreck off Kekova Island as the world's oldest. The excavators' published abstract dates it to the Early Bronze Age and does not rank it against any other wreck.
17 Oct 2026The Valley of the Temples park says its third campaign at Case Montana has exposed walls and building traces from a 5th-century BC district of Akragas, destroyed in the Carthaginian siege of 406 BC.
17 Oct 2026Dr Mark Merrony reports a Roman fort in Pembrokeshire and argues it connects to a medieval Welsh tale of the emperor Magnus Maximus. Wolfson College says further research is needed to establish any such link.
16 Oct 2026Greece's culture minister received 22 antiquities from Israel's ambassador in Athens on 13 October 2026. Lina Mendoni said it was the first time Israel had returned antiquities to Greece.
16 Oct 2026Egypt's tourism minister announced on 11 October that the Fayum tondo has been restored. It is due to leave Egypt for the first time, for Rome's Ara Pacis Museum.
15 Oct 2026Egypt's antiquities authorities say a mission has found a mud-brick, pyramid-shaped Roman-period tomb at Bir Al-Shaghala in Dakhla Oasis, with a 19-line Greek poem on a stele.
14 Oct 2026The Izmir Metropolitan Municipality says excavators at ancient Smyrna's agora found three Late Antiquity rooms and new wall paintings, while a Roman water channel was traced for about 150 metres.
14 Oct 2026CT scans of a fossil skull from Egypt's Mokattam Formation show it was not close to the false gharial. It is now named Herugavialis cairensis, partly for a missing snout tip.
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