CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a first-century A.D. figurine unearthed on the grounds of a country estate in the East of England in 2018 may depict a Celtic man or deity other than the god Cernunnos, as was originally thought upon its discovery. The two-inch tall, copper alloy (...)

RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by the Israel Antiquities Authority, a soldier on a training exercise in northern Israel discovered a second-century A.D. coin and handed it over to regional authorities. Researcher Donald Tzvi Ariel said the discovery of only 11 such coins has (...)

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by Spain's National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), paleoanthropologists Daniel García Martínez and José María Bermúdez de Castro of CENIEH and David Green of Campbell University evaluated the shape and development of the delicate, flat (...)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—Peterborough Today reports that a fragment of a Roman-era millstone engraved with crosses and a phallus was among artifacts recovered in 2017 and 2018 during the A14 highway construction in the East of England. When the millstone broke, the piece was adapted for hand (...)

RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority, two 1,800-year-old sarcophagi were unearthed at Ramat Gan Safari Park during construction work at its wildlife hospital. The sarcophagi were actually discovered years ago during the (...)

SEVILLE, SPAIN—According to an El País report, renovation of a popular tapas bar on Seville’s Mateos Gago Street revealed the walls and skylights of a twelfth-century hammam, or bathhouse, built during the rule of the Almohad Caliphate. Archaeologist Fernando Amores explained that Seville was one (...)

CAIRO, EGYPT—Live Science reports that a computed tomography scan of the skull of Seqenenre Taa II, who ruled southern Egypt between 1558 and 1553 B.C., has detected additional wounds suffered by the pharaoh. According to an engraving discovered in Thebes, both Seqenenre Taa II and his son, (...)

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—Hunter-gatherers in the Middle East linked the death of a person and the destruction of a building some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a Science News report. It had been previously thought that early farmers in the region were the first to place (...)

BUCHAN, AUSTRALIA—The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that microscopic remains of Bogong moths were detected on a grindstone recovered from Cloggs Cave, which is located in southeastern Australia. “We have oral histories about eating the Bogong moth in our culture, but since early (...)

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA—WJCT Public Media reports that recent excavations have confirmed the presence of 29 grave shafts detected last year during a ground-penetrating radar survey at the site of North Greenwood Cemetery, an African American cemetery that operated from 1940 to 1954. The remains of (...)