A Roman milestone dating back to 239 AD, during the reign of Emperor Gordianus III, was recently discovered in the Fatsa district of Ordu province, northeastern Türkiye. This remarkable find, unearthed near the Laleli Central Mosque in Fatsa’s Bolaman neighborhood, offers a rare glimpse into the ancient Roman road systems and the empire’s engineering prowess, … Read more
An international team of archaeologists, led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin, has made a remarkable discovery in the ancient necropolis of Asyut, Egypt. After twenty years of excavation work, researchers uncovered the burial chamber of Idy, a high-status priestess and daughter of the regional governor Djefaihapi I. This burial site, located within … Read more
The discovery of intricate engravings depicting fish and fishing nets at the Ice Age campsite of Gönnersdorf, located along the Rhine River, has offered unprecedented insights into early fishing practices and the symbolic world of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. This research, conducted by a team from Monrepos, a division of the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie in Germany, in … Read more
In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy erupted, obliterating the Roman town of Pompeii and encasing its inhabitants in a thick layer of volcanic ash. This catastrophic event preserved much of the town’s structures, objects, and even the bodies of its citizens, frozen in the positions they were in when disaster struck. Over the … Read more