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Small digs of a cave hidden beneath an 11th Century castle in Pembrokeshire have so far uncovered evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago.
The University of Aberdeen will now lead a larger five-year exploration of the site
Euterpe, muse of lyric poetry, shows a tibia to Hyagnis, while she stands next to a scroll box.
Detail from a late 3rd-century mosaic, signed by
Monnus (“Monnus fecit”), from Augusta Treverorum, today's Trier in Germany.
📷Th. Zühmer RLM Trier
https://www.theatrum.de/1810.html
Archaeologists found a 2500-year-old infant mass grave at Tel Azekah, some 30 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem
📷The Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition
https://www.timesofisrael.com/2500-year-old-infant-mass-grave-cracks-open-enigma-of-biblical-era-baby-burials/
A mass grave of young children and infants from the Persian period in Tel Azekah and its importance for the understanding of burial practices of unweaned infants
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00310328.2025.2589646
While walking through Berlin's western neighborhood of Spandau, a 13-year-old found a small bronze coin, which archaeologists have since dated 2,300 years, back to the ancient Greek city of Troy, in present-day Türkiye.
📷PETRI Berlin / Christof Hannemann. https://www.dw.com/en/teen-discovers-first-ancient-greek-artifact-found-in-berlin/a-76833757
Archaeologists have documented the wrecks of more than 30 ships, from as far back as 5th century BC, in the bay that curves between the southern port of Algeciras and the Rock of Gibraltar.
In total 151 archaeological sites have been identified (among them 134 shipwrecks).
📷Herakles Project/Supplied. Alejandro Mañas.
Felipe Cerezo Andreo.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-trove-of-ancient-shipwrecks-in-bay-of-gibraltar
The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved iron blooms during underwater excavations in the Dor Lagoon provides a rare and transformative window into southern Levantine Iron Age metallurgy and trade. For the first time, unworked iron blooms, still encased in protective slag, have been recovered, representing the earliest securely dated industrial iron products identified to date. Radiocarbon modeling of an embedded charred oak twig, together with additional short-lived carbon samples, dates the blooms to the late 7th–early 6th centuries BCE. These findings challenge assumptions that iron blooms were typically forged immediately after smelting. Instead, the Dor blooms demonstrate that raw iron was transported in its as-smelted state, with adhering slag protecting the metal from corrosion during shipment. Results suggest that Iron Age urban centers focused on smithing rather than smelting activities, while raw iron circulated as a traded commodity, possibly under Saitic-Egyptian rule following the Neo-Assyrian withdrawal from the region.
Shipwreck reveals earliest evidence for raw iron trade.
Discovery of iron blooms off the coast of Tel Dor, Israel, provides new insight into the iron production process of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean.
📷Tzilla Eshel https://armstronginstitute.org/1442-shipwreck-reveals-earliest-evidence-for-raw-iron-trade
A hoard of Bronze Age jewelry has been discovered during construction of wind turbines near Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony, Germany. More finds include two well-preserved house foundations from the Linear Pottery culture dating to the 6th millennium BC.
📷 Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege/ C. Wehrstedt & / T. Uhlig.
Bronze Age hoard 1500-1300 BC and a bone comb from the 4th/5th century AD
https://www.wissenschaft.de/geschichte-archaeologie/bronzezeitlicher-ausnahmefund-beim-windanlagen-bau/
A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees. The colony is one of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest.
A University of Iowa-led research team is aiming to use AI to restore lost sections of ancient manuscripts, with support from a $500,000 grant from Schmidt Sciences
https://dailyiowan.com/2026/04/12/ui-professor-repairs-damaged-ancient-manuscripts-with-ai/
A University of Iowa-led research team is aiming to use AI to restore lost sections of ancient manuscripts, with support from a $500,000 grant from Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic organization that funds unconventional scientific research. Paul Dilley, the Erling B. “Jack” Holtsmark Associate Professor in the UI’s Classics department and the departmental executive officer of...
