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3000-year-old burials found in stone chamber tombs

31 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
3000-year-old burials found in stone chamber tombs

Human remains dating to 1000 BC were found by researchers in the recently discovered chamber tombs by the Godvari river in the area between Tadwai to Bhadrachalam, East India.

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Ushabti statue missing from Aswan museum found in London

31 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Ushabti statue missing from Aswan museum found in London

Ancient Egyptian ushabti statue that went missing from the storage room of a museum in Aswan in 2013 was recovered in London. The artefact dates 3800 years to the past.

Europe

Remains of Saxon workshops and a Norman building discovered

31 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Remains of Saxon workshops and a Norman building discovered

Excavations at an undisclosed location on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, United Kingdom, revealed what is believed to be a Saxon workshop and a large Norman structure.

Europe

Submerged structures revealed as reservoirs dry up in Spain

31 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Submerged structures revealed as reservoirs dry up in Spain

Drought lasting for seven months revealed the remains of several villages and archaeological sites as waters lowered in Belesar reservoir, an artificial lake in the region of Galicia, north-west Spain.

Europe

38000-year-old engraving found in Prehistoric rock-shelter

30 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
38000-year-old engraving found in Prehistoric rock-shelter

Researchers discovered an engraved image of an aurochs on a limestone slab found in a rock-shelter called Abri Blanchard, south-western France. The image is dating 38000 years to the past and is one of the earliest known images of nature made by modern humans.

Europe

Anglo-Saxon burial site’s accidental discovery

30 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Anglo-Saxon burial site's accidental discovery

Workmen rebuilding a collapsed wall uncovered bones from Anglo-Saxon times while preparing to lay foundations of a new structure in Hartlepool, Durham, United Kingdom.

Mesoamerica

Airborne laser scans reveal unknown Mayan road network in Guatemala

30 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Airborne laser scans reveal unknown Mayan road network in Guatemala

An ancient network of roads that stretched over nearly 250 kilometres has been discovered in the Guatemalan jungle thanks to LiDAR scans.  The structures date to 600 BC and were created by the first state-like civilisation that developed in Mesoamerica.

Asia

140 tombs dating at least 1700 years excavated in Osaka

30 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
140 tombs dating at least 1700 years excavated in Osaka

Excavation at the Kori and Heka ruins in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, unearthed about 140 tombs in type called “hokei shukobo“, consisting of rectangular burial mounds.

Europe

Remains of a Medieval friary with surrounding graves found

29 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Remains of a Medieval friary with surrounding graves found

Excavations on a construction site in Cambridge, United Kingdom, revealed foundations of 3 Medieval building belonging to a friary. Archaeologists discovered also more than 25 skeletons and expect to find about twice as many.

Europe

World War I artefacts found at Larkhill

29 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
World War I artefacts found at Larkhill

Archaeologists conducting excavations at Larkhill, a garrison town in Durrington, Wiltshire, England, discovered a large array of WWI practice trenches and artefacts over year-long investigation.

Asia

3000-year-old pottery found in Okinawa

29 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
3000-year-old pottery found in Okinawa

A fragment of pottery, with Kamegoaka style characteristics, common in north-eastern Japan 3000 years ago was found in Chatan, central part of Okinawa Island.

Europe

Remains of Roman buildings found under park grass

29 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Remains of Roman buildings found under park grass

Archaeologists discovered remains of three 1600-year-old Roman buildings under a city centre park in Chichester, United Kingdom. The discovery was made following results of ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey made back in 2015.

Near East

Numerous ancient artefacts found in ISIS safe house in Mosul

29 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Numerous ancient artefacts found in ISIS safe house in Mosul

More than 100 Assyrian and Early Islamic artefacts have been discovered in the house of an ISIS official in Mosul’s West Bank after it was recaptured by the Iraqi Army. Among the relics are household pottery items such as jugs, vases and bowls.

Europe Poland

Two World War II guns found by construction workers

29 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Two World War II guns found by construction workers

Construction workers found two guns during renovation of two houses in Słupsk, northern Poland. The weapons, found separately are a Polish Vis wz. 35 and German Mauser gun.

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Elite graves found on Bornholm

28 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Elite graves found on Bornholm

Nearly 40  graves of the local elite were discovered by Polish archaeologists at the Norre Sandegard Vest site, Danish island of Bornholm. This burial ground, dated to between 6th-7th cent., is one of the richest in whole Denmark.

Europe

Burial of a man with a stone in his mouth discovered

28 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Burial of a man with a stone in his mouth discovered

A Roman burial found at Stanwick near the river Nene, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, revealed a skeleton facing down with a flat stone wedged into the mouth. The burial dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD.

Near East

Chalcolithic pottery found in western Iran

28 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Chalcolithic pottery found in western Iran

Pieces of pottery attributed to the Dalma culture were found during excavations at Nadali Beig Hill, Kermanshah Province of Iran. The monochromatic and painted pottery is dated to the 5th millennium BC.

Africa

Prehistoric trade routes revealed through finds of ancient figures

28 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Prehistoric trade routes revealed through finds of ancient figures

First biological analysis of ancient terracotta figurines found at Yikpabongo in Northern Ghana’s Koma Land between 2010-2011 revealed that they were created by an unknown African civilisation. The figurines depict ancestral figures and animals.

North America

Numerous artefacts from the American Revolutionary War found

28 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Numerous artefacts from the American Revolutionary War found

Archaeologists discovered caches of American Revolutionary War artefacts at Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States of America. Excavations were conducted prior to construction of a new Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

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Battle of Kunersdorf site reveals more military artefacts

27 January 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Battle of Kunersdorf site reveals more military artefacts

Archaeologists excavating the site of the 18th century battle in Kunowice, western Poland, where 130000  Russian, Austrian and Prussian soldiers fought during the Seven Years’ War, discovered a thousand lead bullets, 250 canister shots, over 200 uniform buttons, and fragments of armaments. 

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