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Archaeologists working at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa in Cyprus have uncovered more than 20 votive statue bases preserved in their original positions, offering rare evidence of how religious offerings accumulated inside an ancient sanctuary over centuries. The sanctuary lies near the village of Pera Oreinis and has become the focus of renewed archaeological […]

Scientists have confirmed that a series of red markings inside a cave in Wales represent the oldest known rock art in the British Isles, bringing an end to a debate that lasted for more than a century. The artwork lies deep inside Bacon Hole, a cave in the limestone cliffs of the Gower Peninsula in […]

A nearly complete skeleton of a young tapir found in northeastern Spain is giving researchers a rare look at the early life of a species that lived almost four million years ago. The fossil, uncovered at the Camp dels Ninots site in Girona, belongs to a tapir around one year old and stands as the […]

A middle-aged woman buried in an early medieval cemetery in northeastern Italy is changing what researchers know about violence in Langobard society. Her skull carries two severe injuries, a blade wound and a crushing blow. Both healed before her death. The case marks the first direct archaeological evidence of interpersonal violence in a Langobard woman. […]

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Ihnasya in Egypt’s Beni Suef Governorate have uncovered a collection of finds that span several major periods of the region’s history, offering new evidence of the city’s religious, political, and economic importance over more than a thousand years. The discoveries were made by an Egyptian mission from the […]