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Rescue excavations in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, recorded a necropolis of 135 burial structures. In one child's grave were two gold earrings and a coin of Aurelian struck at Serdica in AD 274-275.
18 Oct 2026A 2026 geophysical survey at Pompeii's buried suburban villa finds that many walls appear to lie just half a metre below the surface — far better preserved than the research team had assumed.
18 Oct 2026Excavating a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, archaeologists found a mound burial with a 42-tooth necklace, a used stone axe and two skulls. The axe suggests a date of about 2900 BC; radiocarbon results were due in autumn.
18 Oct 2026A reassessment of 46 skulls from burials beside First Dynasty royal enclosures at Abydos reports potentially lethal trauma in 18, from a sample its author calls incomplete.
18 Oct 2026Bioarchaeologists re-examined six skeletons found at Dahshur in the 1890s. They report muscle wear consistent with archery in royal women buried with bows and daggers, and an outside Egyptologist notes that the evidence is indirect.
18 Oct 2026Turkey's culture minister announced on 21 September 2026 that a cuneiform fragment from Büyükkale, Hattusa, belongs to a copy of the Treaty of Kadesh. Its readable lines deal with people who fled from one country to the other.
17 Oct 2026Excavators digging the civilian settlement beside Kapersburg Roman fort in Germany's Taunus have uncovered a temple dedicated to Mars, along with votive stones and a Victoria statuette, according to Hessen's heritage office.
17 Oct 2026Israel Antiquities Authority excavations south of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel have exposed a 300-metre section of Jerusalem's Lower Aqueduct, which the IAA attributes to the Hasmonean period and plans to keep on show.
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