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A team reports ancient collagen from the common eland in an ochre-rich surface about 60,000 years old on South Africa's coast. Its two proposed explanations are ochre mixed with animal material, or ochre-treated hides.
27 Oct 2026Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw have uncovered more than 3,000 square metres of a monumental building at the Roman fortress of Novae in Bulgaria. They say it may be the legion commander's residence, but it still needs confirming.
26 Oct 2026Archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase say the tomb of Caracol's first ruler, dated to about 350 AD, shows Teotihuacán was not the dominant power it was once assumed to be.
26 Oct 2026In October 2016 the BBC reported that archaeologists said Greek art may have inspired the Terracotta Army. The archaeologist it quoted then said her remarks had been overstated.
26 Oct 2026The University of Sheffield says a technician has reproduced the glass behind the Lycurgus Cup's green-to-red colour change. Here is what was made, and what experts believe the Romans did.
26 Oct 2026KU Leuven says a coffin bottom from Dayr al-Barsha, dated to about 2040 BC, carries the oldest published Book of Two Ways. Its excavator doubts it was a map for the dead.
26 Oct 2026A 2024 study in Science described thousands of earthen platforms, 15 settlements and long straight roads in Ecuador's Upano Valley. Here is what the researchers say it shows, and what is still unexplained.
26 Oct 2026Found crushed around a skeleton in a Flintshire mound in 1833, the Mold gold cape was hammered from a single ingot of gold. The British Museum dates it to about 1900–1600 BC.
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