DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

VAN, TURKEY—Newsweek reports that three well-preserved bronze shields and a helmet were discovered at Ayanis, a 2,700-year-old Urartian citadel on a hill overlooking Lake Van in eastern Turkey ...

LUND, SWEDEN—According to a Phys.org report, Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University and his colleagues suggest that Scandinavia’s hunter-gatherers belonging to what is known as the Pitted Ware ...

In the midst of modern construction, archaeologists search for evidence of the city’s earliest days ...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—Live Science reports that prehistoric burials have been discovered in Malaysia’s Nenggiri Valley. Zuliskandar Ramli of the National University of Malaysia said that the ...

When you were a child, you probably had toys such as plastic or porcelain dolls and plush, furry animals that may have included mythical beings such as unicorns. You may have created skits in ...

ULYTAU, KAZAKHSTAN—Ten medieval burial mounds, or kurgans, have been discovered in central Kazakhstan, according to a Live Science report. Archaeologist Zhanbolat Utubaev of the Margulan ...

HATALOV, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a 5,000-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in eastern Slovakia by researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—Artnet News reports that archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) working ahead of road construction in southern England uncovered two wells dug by the Romans ...

TRUJILLO, PERU—Live Science reports that the remains of two children, an adolescent, and an adult have been unearthed in a structure that may have been a temple at the site of Queneto, which is ...

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—Archaeologists have found possible evidence for the presence of enslaved gardeners at the eighteenth-century home of John Custis IV, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner who ...

NORFOLK, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, an archway was discovered during conservation work in St. George’s Guildhall, a medieval guildhall in the town of King’s Lynn that was ...