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A Roman cavalry helmet found by a metal detectorist in Cumbria in May 2010 sold at Christie's for about £2.3 million. Here is what the finding, the sale and the later excavation add up to.
26 Oct 2026Municipal archaeologists in Fréjus have uncovered a complete Roman domus with a marble basin, and the remains of a monumental complex that may be a temple or sanctuary.
26 Oct 2026Gibraltar's government announced in September 2021 that archaeologists had found a 13-metre chamber at the back of Vanguard Cave, sealed for at least 40,000 years. The first finds were animal remains and a whelk shell.
26 Oct 2026Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reopened the tomb of Amenhotep III on 4 October 2025, after a restoration project that ran in three phases between 2001 and 2024.
26 Oct 2026In April 2020, Adelphi University reported ten skeletons from Paliokastro on Thasos, one showing what lead researcher Anagnostis Agelarakis called the most complex surgery he had seen.
26 Oct 2026A Herculaneum papyrus that was assigned a readability score of zero after part of it was opened in the 1980s, according to UKNow, has been read in full from X-ray scans, the Vesuvius Challenge says. Its content looks Stoic. Its author had not been identified when it was announced.
26 Oct 2026Croatia's Conservation Institute says several black-coated vessels from a Hellenistic wreck in Gnjilna Bay, Vis, carry scratched marks that are most likely shortened personal names. It says they can be interpreted as a crew member's ownership marks.
26 Oct 2026INRAP archaeologists dug a Roman potters' workshop at Sermaize, in northern France, with 21 kilns and traces of every step from clay to firing. The site is due to lie under a canal port.
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