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A Science Advances study reports that a woman from Isturitz Cave in southwestern France carried ancestry linked to central and eastern Europe, hinting that Gravettian groups were less isolated than assumed.
24 Oct 2026Archaeologists at Castro do Pico da Bandeira in A Guarda, Galicia, report a granite stone with a triskelion on one face and a rougher petroglyph on the other. They say they cannot yet tell whether both were carved together.
24 Oct 2026Excavators at the Roman fortress of Novae in Bulgaria have exposed more than 3,000 square metres of a building, with baths and luxury fittings, that they say may be the home of the legion's commander. They stress that this is not yet confirmed.
23 Oct 2026University of Córdoba researchers say a geomagnetic survey has mapped a 48-metre Roman building beside the Córdoba–Mérida road. It has not been dug, and their reading rests on its plan.
23 Oct 2026On 22 October 2026 the sun again lit the statues in the inner chamber of Ramesses II's Great Temple at Abu Simbel. Reports differ on how many came.
23 Oct 2026A new study in Cedrus examines a small bronze figurine of the child god Harpocrates in the Hierapolis Archaeology Museum. It reads Egyptian, Greek and Roman influences in one object and dates it stylistically to the 1st–3rd centuries CE.
22 Oct 2026A review published on 21 October describes six skull deposits under the East Gate of China's Shimao and the new excavation report on it. A 2025 Nature DNA study found that nine out of ten burials examined under the East Gate were male.
22 Oct 2026Police in İzmir's Konak district seized a marble head of Zeus believed to be Roman and about 2,000 years old. Three suspects were detained, and as of 21 October where the head came from was unknown.
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