archaeology

An 11-month dig at Vindonissa found the earliest camp's rampart, a legionary barracks, a field forge, and a Tiberius gold aureus.

Viral DNA from two colonial-era mummies in northern Chile shows smallpox reached the Americas from Europe, in a newly named extinct lineage called CAM9.

A 2,000-year-old cemetery near Chelmsford holds five richly furnished cremation burials with imported Roman glass and wine jars, alongside three newly found Iron Age settlements.

A cave high in the eastern Pyrenees held 23 hearths and over 170 burned green mineral fragments, suggesting repeated prehistoric visits tied to early copper processing rather than passing traffic.

Two metal detectorists found 19 silver coins in a field near Rena on April 10, 2026. Within days, archaeologists had recovered more than 3,000, surpassing a record that had stood since 1836.

An analysis of 2,456 mitochondrial genomes published in Science Advances identifies two distinct maritime routes humans used to reach Sahul roughly 60,000 years ago.

Queen's University Belfast researchers have identified more than 600 suspected house platforms at a Bronze Age hillfort in County Wicklow, proposing it as Ireland's earliest proto-town, two millennia before the Vikings.

Genome-wide analysis of 11,000-year-old remains from the Donghulin site near Beijing has identified a deeply divergent northern East Asian lineage with no match in any previously studied population, offering new evidence that cultural continuity does not guarantee genetic continuity.

GUARD Archaeology has published findings from a 2017 excavation in Bearsden that revealed a fortified Roman outpost hidden under residential back gardens, offering the clearest evidence yet of a denser surveillance network along the Antonine Wall than historians had assumed.