Viking Noblewoman Buried in Boat Alongside Her Dog

MAARAT AL-NUMAN, SYRIA—Construction workers clearing rubble from destroyed houses in Maarat al-Numan revealed the entrance […] The post Hidden Byzantine Tombs Found Beneath Houses in Syria appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, Byzantine, Idlib, Maarat al-Numan, Syria, Tomb

TISZAFÜRED-MAJOROSHALOM, HUNGARY—According to an announcement released by Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University, new research in the […] The post Archaeologists Identify Major Period of Bronze Age Transformation in Central Europe appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, Bronze Age, Carpathian Basin, Central Europe, Hungary, millet, Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom

AUXERRE, FRANCE—During excavation of a gravel pit on the shores of the Yonne River in […] The post Enormous Roman Villa Unearthed in France appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, Autessioduro, Auxerre, France, Gaul, Roman villa

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850-1864) was part of the Compromise of 1850, drafted to diffuse tensions between Southern 'slave states' and Northern 'free states.' The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 already allowed slaveholders to reclaim their fugitive slaves from Northern states, but, since many Northerners were not inclined to help them in this, the 1793 law had little real power. Although one...

Sometime in 1153 or 1154, the German nun Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) wrote a letter to the elderly Pope Anastasius IV (1073-1154). Her words were scathing. She called the pope tired and criticized his rule, describing him as too accepting of depraved people and urging him to control the arrogance of those around him. There was corruption in the medieval church, Hildegard asserted, and he, as...

Renaissance Florence’s Missing Bronzes JamesHoare Tue, 06/10/2025 - 08:18

A Byzantine-era tomb complex has been discovered by a construction workers clearing the rubble of a destroyed building in the northern Syrian city of Maarat al-Numan. The complex dates to around the 6th century and is composed of two large burial chambers with multiple tombs. Each contained six stone tombs, with the sign of the … Read the full post →"Byzantine tombs found under destroyed building in Syria"

SUFFOLK, ENGLAND—Oxford Cotswold ARCHAEOLOGY (OCA) is currently conducting one of the largest projects ever undertaken […] The post Earthen Pits Expose Clues About Life in Neolithic Britain appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, England, Neolithic Britain, pits, ritual, Sizewell C

SIXTY ISLANDS, MICHIGAN—A new lidar survey of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula revealed evidence of extensive farming […] The post Lidar Survey Reveals Intensive Farming by Ancestral Native Americans appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, farming, lidar, Menominee, Michigan, Sixty Islands

The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills passed by the US Congress in September 1850 to diffuse a sectional crisis brewing between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. The crisis was sparked by a disagreement over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into the so-called 'Mexican Cession', the 529,000 square miles of territory seized from Mexico after...

‘The Alienation Effect’ by Owen Hatherley review JamesHoare Mon, 06/09/2025 - 09:05

An archaeological excavation at the Iron Age Drumanagh fort in north Dublin has unearthed the first intact Roman pot ever discovered in Ireland. A team of dozens of volunteers led by professional county archaeologists investigated an area of the fort site with unusual features seen in a previous geophysical survey. They found fragments of Roman … Read the full post →"Found: Ireland’s first intact Roman pot"

Archaeologists have unearthed one of the largest Roman villas in Gaul near Auxerre in central France. The structure was known to have been there, with the first remains discovered in 1966 when a gravel pit was dug at the site. The rough excavation at the time uncovered a rectangular building of about 700 square meters … Read the full post →"One of Gaul’s largest Roman villas found in Auxerre"

A boat grave unearthed on the island of Senja in northern Norway contains the remains of a Viking woman with her dog at her feet. In addition to her eternally loyal companion, the woman was buried with several high-status objects, including brooches, beads of bone or amber and a hoop pendant. The burial was first … Read the full post →"Viking boat burial of woman with dog at her feet found in Norway"

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—For about 400,000 years, humans have consistently relied on fire for various purposes, […] The post New Study Proposes How and Why Early Humans First Used Fire appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, cooking, fire, food preservation, hominin, Homo erectus, Israel

MALLORCA, SPAIN—Several ancient Roman writers describe how thrushes were a culinary delicacy, often elaborately prepared […] The post Fried Thrush Was a Popular Roman Street Food appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, Mallorca, Pollentia, Roman dining, Spain, street food, taberna, thrush

SHINCLIFFE, ENGLAND—In 1983, archaeological divers located the wooden framework of a structure at the bottom […] The post Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Wooden Structure Submerged in English River appeared first on Archaeology Magazine. News, bridge, Durham, England, Ignatius Bonomi, River Wear, Shincliffe, underwater archaeology

When Sojourner Truth (circa 1797-1883) escaped from slavery, she later said, "I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right" (Delbanco, 142). So it was