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The circular carved stone, unearthed at the Yucatán’s Chichén Itzá complex, displays hieroglyphic writing and two game playersA stone scoreboard used in an ancient ritual ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichén Itzá archaeological site…
Government to take over care of Llys Rhosyr, the 13th-century site used by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, to encourage more visitorsThe Welsh government has acquired the ruins of a medieval court used by the last native prince of Wales before the 13th-century E…
Human hair from Spanish island indicates consumption of substances during ritualistic ceremoniesResearchers have found evidence of drug use during bronze age ceremonies.Analysis of strands of human hair from a burial site in Menorca, Spain, indicates a…
A DOZEN severed hands discovered in an ancient Egyptian palace could have been chopped off captured enemies while they were still alive.
Archaeologists made the gruesome find in the courtyard of the palace in the city of Avaris which was inhabited b…
Metal used for west African artworks was acquired from manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the slave tradeScientists have discovered that some of the Benin bronzes were made with brass mined thousands of miles away in the German Rhineland.The Edo p…
Attack on archaeologist in Athens is thought to be linked to developers’ ‘out-of-control’ clamour to exploit islandUnder cover of darkness in an Athens side street earlier this month, Manolis Psarros, an archaeologist, was attacked as he walked toward …
Attack on archaeologist on Greece’s party island is thought to be linked to developers’ ‘out-of-control’ clamour to exploit the islandUnder the cover of darkness in an Athens side street earlier this month, Manolis Psarros, an archaeologist, was attack…
Government urged to ratify UN convention in order to protect undersea areas like shipwrecks and now-submerged First Nations heritage sitesThe underwater world – from shipwrecks with human remains inside to First Nations sites that are tens of thousands…
Discovery of wall paintings of national significance in Micklegate flat is ‘bonkers’, says Luke BudworthA man renovating his kitchen has found a 400-year-old wall painting of “national significance” in his York flat.Parts of the friezes, dating back to…
Gold disc represents first solid evidence of main Norse god being worshipped in fifth centuryScandinavian scientists have identified the oldest known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark.Lisbeth…