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Bulgaria's National Museum of History says this season's dig at Balak Dere uncovered more of a 15-metre pagan temple and a marble relief of three nymphs with Cybele. Its researchers say the site may be one of the last Thracian pagan temples in Western Thrace.
22 Oct 2026In 2025 a team lifted 22 of the Lighthouse of Alexandria's largest blocks from the harbour seabed. The aim, the project says, is a scientific digital twin of the lost tower.
22 Oct 2026Rome says restoration of the Painted City fresco and the Great Mosaic is finished. The press release gives dimensions that don't match a figure for the mosaic given in early coverage.
22 Oct 2026North Macedonia's National Archaeological Museum says a rich warrior burial with a complete set of weapons has been found at Rasnica and, on first assessment, is older than a 2024 tomb on the same site.
22 Oct 2026A 1990s find in Israel's Dor Lagoon has been tied to an Iron Age cargo, moving the date of its oak-and-lead anchor stock back to the late 7th or early 6th century BCE.
22 Oct 2026Excavators of a 54.5-metre stone monument at Wadi Lawash el Telli report the first absolute dates for an antennae tumulus: a single burial, dated to between 4417 and 4100 cal BP.
21 Oct 2026A 2024 PLOS ONE paper proposes that a dam, a water-treatment system and a shaft lift helped raise Djoser's Step Pyramid. Several experts who commented are sceptical.
21 Oct 2026A study in the journal Cedrus describes a 4.8 cm bearded Silenos head on a fragmentary terracotta sarcophagus lid from Attouda, Türkiye. The find was disturbed and undated by grave goods, so the author's reading is an interpretation.
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