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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 12 September 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08882-6 The numismatic reflection of Abbasid-Turkish traditions in Bengal Sultanate coinage

One man's obsession with preserving a Maine island forced him to choose between family wealth and American wilderness, a choice he made over and over again until there was nothing left.

‘If we don’t excavate it in the next couple of years it will be gone forever so we will lose all of that information’

Archaeologists have found a huge network of Iron Age salt-mining chambers beneath Hallstatt, Austria. The chambers extend for at least 300 meters and offer new evidence about how prehistoric miners worked deep inside the mountain. People began living in the high valley above Hallstatt and producing salt about 7,300 years ago. Archaeologists have found Neolithic […]

Archaeologists working at Gravisca, the ancient port of Tarquinia, have uncovered massive limestone blocks buried beneath later Roman structures. The find points to a large Etruscan building whose purpose is still unknown. Gravisca lies near today’s Porto Clementino area on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lazio. The ancient port stood about 7 to 10 kilometers from […]

This article examines the Falangist roots of Gustavo Bueno’s political theory of Spain as an empire. Using archival and press sources, it reconstructs his intellectual formation in the Falange’s philosophical seminar in Zaragoza during the 1940s and his later militancy in Salamanca in the 1950s, first as political commissar and then as provincial councilor. It highlights the influence of Eugenio …

In the sands south of Cairo, archaeologists just opened a tomb that has sat untouched for over four thousand years, and what they found inside wasn't just old. It was oddly, almost impossibly, well preserved.

When strolling through hot sandy Malta, strange are the sights that might startle a tourist, especially those of us with an interest in Anglo-Irish history. Among the sacred sites of domes and steeples there’s an occasional red object that resembles and shares the shape of icons back home in the damp cool British Isles. Here, John O’Dowd looks at history in Ireland and Malta. WB Yeats by George C…

A routine search for a lost farm tool became an archaeological windfall that rewrote Britain's understanding of Roman wealth and collapse.

A schoolteacher has stumbled across what's thought to be the world's first set of T-Rex footprints. The four massive three-toed prints, more than 66 million years old, were found in North Dakota after the teacher came across them on a hike. Each footprint measures roughly 3.3 feet long, with the trail stretching across 23 feet of ground. Scientists who have analysed the prints now think they date…

Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct alligatorid that lived in what is now Colorado just a few hundred thousand years after the asteroid impact that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. The post Ancient Alligator Relative Lived Right After Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News .

A young boy unearthed an ancient spearhead during a family outing in the Lake District. Eight-year-old George made the remarkable find while exploring near Waterhead on the shores of Windermere with his mother Kate in November 2024. He said: "I was digging and having fun, and I saw what looked like a ring, so I pulled it out, and it just kept on going." The artefact, which dates to the Bronze Age…

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Wildfires may have inspired Neolithic communities in the southern Levant to make pottery, according […] The post Study Tests “Natural Kiln Hypothesis” appeared first on Archaeology Magazine .

Three people buried inside Grotta Romanelli in southern Italy lived during the medieval period, new radiocarbon dates show. The finding adds a later phase of human use to one of the Mediterranean’s key Paleolithic sites. Researchers dated skeletal remains from one adult and two children using accelerator mass spectrometry, or AMS. The remains came from […]