Roman villa discovered on route of Norfolk wind farm cables

📷A Roman vessel handle, affectionately named the 'Norfolk Nessie', found during the excavations (Image: Denise Bradley). https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25954929.roman-villa-discovered-route-norfolk-wind-farm-cables/

A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a-byzantine-fort-discovered-in-elda-built-by-the-garrison-of-the-eastern-roman-empire-on-the-visigothic-frontier-of-southeastern-iberia/

A Neolithic wood and stone axe was discovered in Switzerland’s Lake Constance last year. Its wooden handle dates around 4,800 years ago. The axe has been conserved and stabilized and is now on display at the Museum of Archaeology in Frauenfeld.

https://www.tg.ch/news.html/485/news/78167

A Viking-era finger ring with a runic inscription has been discovered by a metal detectorist near Quadring in Lincolnshire. Archaeologist Dr Lisa Brundle described it as one of "the most significant" archaeological finds ever recorded in the area.

📷 Lincolnshire County Council https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj1w12ddp2o

Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals.

📷Robert Madden
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/native-americans-invented-dice-and-games-of-chance-more-than-12-000-years-ago-archaeological-study-reveals

Robert Madden of Colorado State University identified and examined more than 600 sets of dice, or binary lots, recovered from 45 different archaeological sites in the western United States, on both sides of the Rocky Mountains.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2