The real mummy’s curse: Health risks associated with the sale and trade of mummified remains. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

​Belgian media report that local authorities are looking into the origin and legal ownership of the treasure. Photo Politie Dendermonde nos.nl/artikel/2626...

Renovation work in East Flanders, Belgium, has led to a major historic find. Construction workers discovered a chest concealed within a basement wall containing gold bars and vintage coins with an estimated value of €9 million. ​ Photo Politie Dendermonde nos.nl/artikel/2626...

A display of noses once used to "repair" Roman and Greek marble statues in the 19th century. The Nasothek (Latin for “nose” and Greek for “container”) was born when the fake noses were removed in the interest of authenticity. At the Copenhagen’s Glyptotek art museum in Denmark.

Researchers have pinpointed the event to June 15, 763 BCE. To the Neo-Assyrians, this terrifying event was interpreted as a powerful omen of divine wrath. The original cuneiform text transliterates as: “Bur-Sagale ša uruGuzana sīhu ina uruAššur ina arah Simani šamuš ittabad.”

Over 2,700 years ago, a total solar eclipse darkened the skies of ancient Assyria. Written in Akkadian,this clay tablet records an insurrection in the city of Assur during a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan,corresponding to the year of the governor Bur-Sagale www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

This magnificent elephant once graced the floor of the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, the residence of Byzantine emperors and their court officials. The mosaic dates to the 6th century AD. Photo credit Carole Madge www.flickr.com/photos/carol...

The Upton Lovell Shaman, long thought to have been male, has now been shown to be female. She was a gold-worker and lived in the early Bronze Age, around 4,000 years ago and was buried on the chalk downland of Salisbury Plain at Upton Lovell, less than 10 miles from Stonehenge 📷 Wiltshire Museum

A section of Roman road has been found at the site of a planned autobahn near Drackenstein in southern Germany. Photo Dr. René Wollenweber, LAD. www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/...

Archaeologists have uncovered the central dais, or bimah, of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania. The synagogue was ransacked by the Nazis in 1941 and then destroyed under the Soviet regime in 1957. www.timesofisrael.com/buried-for-7...

Crown Prince Thutmose was the eldest son of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye, making him the older brother of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) and the uncle of Tutankhamun. Photo courtesy Egypt Museum egypt-museum.com/sarcophagus-...

The carvings show Ta-Miu seated before a feast of duck, bread, and flowers, with sacred inscriptions and prayers that "her legs shall never tire" in the afterlife. Photo courtesy Egypt Museum egypt-museum.com/sarcophagus-...

For #WorldCatDay Proof that humans have been obsessed with cats for thousands of years 🤗🐈 Around 1370 BC, Prince Thutmose commissioned a custom limestone sarcophagus for his pet cat, Ta-Miu ("She Cat"). ​ Photo courtesy Egypt Museum egypt-museum.com/sarcophagus-...

Archaeologists recovered a 3,000 year old hoard of bronze objects from an ancient wetland outside of Kojetín in central Moravia, Czech Republic. www.europesays.com/3172308/

An ancient shipwreck with a cargo of c. 600-650 amphorae has been discovered off the Greek island of Andros. The types of amphorae date the shipwreck to the late 5th or early 4th century BC. www.culture.gov.gr/el/Informati...

Archaeologists identified a library at the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo near Córdoba in Spain. The 4th century facility is the oldest known in the Iberian Peninsula and the westernmost in the entire Empire. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/t...

A funerary complex, in use between the Late Period and the end of the Roman Period, has been uncovered in the eastern Nile Delta at Tell El-Deir, Damietta, Egypt. 📷SCA Egypt english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...

Researchers documented around 120 Latin inscriptions on the walls and ceiling of Cova Dones, an underground cave in southeastern Spain. The cave is thought to have been a Roman cult sanctuary used primarily by women for ritual practices. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/a...

Archaeologists discovered a Roman military camp from the final battle of the indigenous Iberian Ceretani revolt at Collet de Jovell in the eastern Pyrenees Mountains of Catalonia. The artifacts found link it to the final suppression of the Ceretani in 39 BC 📷AUB www.uab.cat/web/newsroom...

Archeologists have uncovered two breathtaking, intricately carved mammoth ivory bird figurines from the Hohle Fels Cave in Germany. The newly discovered tiny Ice Age birds, one resting, one with wings outstretched, date back 40,000 years and weigh under 2 grams each.

A newly accessible Etruscan treasure: The François Tomb at Villa Giulia. Photo credit Agnes Crawford understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-newly-ac...

A group of 5 silver denarii from the Roman Republic has been discovered in Halle, central Germany, the first documented hoard of Republic-era coins ever found in Saxony-Anhalt 📷Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, O.S.C.A.R. www.lda-lsa.de/presse-und-o...

By collecting about 1,000 fragments and painstakingly assembling the pieces, archaeologists restored a scene depicting the popular love story of Dionysus and Ariadne. 📷AP www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

The 5th-century BC gold torc of the Lady of Vix has been stolen from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais. Thieves successfully breached the museum at 10:30 AM on Friday, July 24, 2026. A major police search is underway. 📸Maxppp - JC Tardivon www.ici.fr/bourgogne-fr...

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have unveiled a partially reconstructed frescoed ceiling vault, which is believed to have belonged to a banquet hall on the upper floor of a house with an adjoining bakery. 📷Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

More than a decade after its discovery on the seabed off Croatia, archaeologists reveal that a 7th or 8th-century Byzantine shipwreck was carrying gold jewellery and coins. The artefacts recovered from the site indicate the vessel transported a high-ranking official and his entourage 📷Antonio Bronic

A gold votive plaque bearing a Greek inscription to Jupiter Dolichenus is the first votive to the god ever discovered at the Roman Apsaros fort on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in Georgia. pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2026/06/2...

Archaeologists unearthed a large Late Assyrian stele near the Sun Gate of Nineveh in Mosul, Iraq. It dates to the 7th century BC and lists building projects ordered by Ashurbanipal, 668 to 627 BC. 📷Iraq’s General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage greekreporter.com/2026/06/26/a...