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Archaeologists working in northern Laos have uncovered the remains of at least 37 people inside a single massive stone jar, providing the first direct physical evidence that the country’s mysterious megalithic jars served as communal burial sites over multiple generations. The findings, published......
Two metal detector enthusiasts scanning an agricultural field near the village of Rena in eastern Norway have uncovered what archaeologists have confirmed to be the largest Viking-era coin hoard ever discovered in the country. Named the Mørstad hoard, the find has so far yielded more than 3,000......
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko reported that the 17th-century St. Andrew’s Church, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site in the western city of Lviv, was struck during a Russian attack on Tuesday. Prime Minister Svyrydenko stated that the assault involved drones, reportedly of......
Archaeologists have identified 142 clay beads and pendants dating back about 15,000 years, with preserved fingerprints showing that both children and adults helped create these ornaments, offering rare direct evidence of who made symbolic objects in the Paleolithic era. The findings, published in Science......
Scientists have directly dated prehistoric cave paintings at the Font-de-Gaume site in southwestern France for the first time, determining that a bison figure was created between 13,461 and 13,162 years ago. The findings, published on March 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge......
Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have discovered that artisans in ancient Egypt used a primitive form of white correction paint to fix mistakes on papyrus manuscripts, revealing a surprisingly familiar editing practice more than three thousand years old. The finding emerged as museum......
A marble bust of Christ displayed for centuries in one of Rome’s oldest basilicas may have been sculpted by Michelangelo, according to a claim presented Wednesday that has sparked debate among Renaissance scholars. Independent researcher Valentina Salerno announced her findings during a press......
Cambodia has formally welcomed 74 looted Khmer artifacts back into its national collection, marking one of the country’s largest single recoveries of stolen cultural property in recent years. The sculptures and ritual objects, many hundreds of years old, were unveiled at the National Museum in......
Michelangelo’s monumental fresco “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a new cleaning campaign to strip away a chalky film of salt that has slowly dulled its surface since the last major restoration in the 1990s. Vatican officials recently allowed a small group of......
A silver medal from the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 has sold for 1,152,000 Danish crowns, or about 181,000 dollars, at an online sale in Denmark, far above expectations. The piece was offered by Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers, which had guided the medal at between 200,000 and 300,000......
Laurence des Cars, the first woman to lead the Louvre Museum, has stepped down less than five months after a spectacular crown jewel robbery exposed serious security lapses at the world’s most visited museum. French President Emmanuel Macron accepted her resignation, describing it as an act of......
The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have been put on public display for the first time in nearly eight centuries, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the Umbrian hill town where the revered friar lived and died. Enclosed in a nitrogen-filled, bulletproof plexiglass case inscribed with the Latin......
Archaeologists in Panama have completed the excavation of a millennium-old tomb at the El Caño archaeological site, uncovering a lavish burial belonging to a high-ranking figure of a pre-Hispanic society. The find includes gold ornaments, ceramic pieces, and multiple human remains that offer rare......
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