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07/08/2026

https://scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2C113799%2Cancient-egyptian-rock-art-reveals-two-very-different-relationships-between-humans
People lived in the oasis from prehistoric times, and it later became an important point on caravan routes connecting the Nile Valley with the Sahara and Libya.

For thousands of years, prehistoric artists in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis carved humans and animals into desert rocks — but they did not always tell the same story. Some images show people and wildlife existing side by side in harmony, while others portray hunting, control and violence.

06/08/2026

https://www.sciencealert.com/historys-barbarians-were-far-more-sophisticated-than-we-give-them-credit-for
Rather than looking to top-down leadership, these 'barbarians' relied on social ties with other clans and tributes, as well as trading partners, to further their interests.

The word 'barbarian' comes to use from the ancient Greeks: Originally meaning simply 'foreigner', its connotations quickly drifted towards savagery, wildness, and violence.

04/08/2026

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeologists-most-exciting-finds-archaeology-culture/archaeologists-most-exciting-finds-seven-magnificent-medieval-stone-crosses-emerged-from-a-waste-heap/2694109
Production of stone crosses in Hyllestad probably began in the 11th century and continued throughout the Middle Ages.

'We were absolutely ecstatic,' says the archaeologist.

04/08/2026

https://scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2C113994%2Ceuropes-primeval-landscape-wasnt-endless-forest-after-all-surprising-study-finds
Rather than being covered by continuous closed-canopy forests, researchers say Central Europe was dominated for around 23 million years by a "forest-pasture" mosaic—a shifting mix of dense woodland, open forests, clearings, meadows and grasslands.

Europe's primeval landscape was not an endless expanse of dense forest as long believed, but a patchwork of woodland, meadows and grasslands maintained by large grazing animals, according to a new study.

02/08/2026

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-brittany-burial-mounds-human-stones.html
A survey revealed resistance spikes in the centres of both mounds. The signatures matched the electrical profile of granite blocks previously measured at nearby dolmens (ancient megalithic tombs).

For archaeologists, the Coëby cemetery in Brittany, France, is a gold mine for research. It contains several prehistoric stone monuments and earth mounds. In a new study of two unusually large mounds, scientists may have stumbled upon a rare style of funerary monument.

02/08/2026

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-laid-rest-ancient-infants-twins.html
The tiny cist grave lay hidden in an ancient Roman concert hall, lined with tiles and stones, near the Temple of Artemis.

More than 1,000 years ago, two babies were tucked away in an abandoned Roman toilet channel. Yet, despite what the location suggests, they were cherished, not discarded.

02/08/2026

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/08/01/find-in-german-cave-40000-year-old-mammoth-ivory-bird-figures-discovered
Both sculptures are so small they would fit on a fingernail and weigh just 1.3 and 0.7 grams respectively.

During excavations in the Hohle Fels cave, archaeologists uncovered two bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory, hinting at humans’ striking artistic sense 40,000 years ago.

29/07/2026

https://www.mpg.de/26870451/fossil-footprints-show-large-body-size-and-group-dynamics-in-1-4-million-year-old-human-relatives?c=2249
Researchers found tracks showing eight Paranthropus boisei individuals — an extinct “cousin” of modern humans — in one place at one time.

New study provides a rare snapshot of “fossil behavior” from Paranthropus boisei, an ancient hominin group in northern Kenya

29/07/2026

https://theconversation.com/tiny-crystals-from-a-17th-century-shipwreck-hold-secrets-of-a-global-supply-chain-at-the-dawn-of-capitalism-287688
Batavia’s story is instead one of greed, mutiny, heroic resistance and mass murder, exposing the violence and ambition that accompanied early European ventures into Australian waters.

Nearly four centuries after the Batavia wrecked, a new study about its precious cargo shows that stories can indeed be written in stone.

28/07/2026

https://www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-hidden-medieval-church-discovered-diocletians-palace-split/
The new discovery does not appear on any Venetian maps.

ZAGREB, 28 July (Hina) - Recent archaeological discoveries of a church, cemetery and military complex in Split's Hrvojeva Street, next to Diocletian's Palace walls, are important for studying the palace's transformation into a medieval city and the development of Split's urban area. The discovery of

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