The History Blog Category
Unique Greek ritual wash-basin unearthed
Excavations at the ancient Greek city of Klazomenai, modern-day Urla near Izmir, western Turkey, have unearthed a unique perirrhanterion, (a…
Infant jar burial found in ancient Anemurium
The skeletal remains of four individuals, three adults and one infant buried in a broken amphora, have been discovered unexpectedly…
Mosaic found in caliph’s palace
The excavation of the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya, built on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in the…
Roman anchor retrieved from North Sea
A large anchor from the Roman era has been recovered from the seabed of the southern North Sea off the…
After 10 years, the Fenland bog oak table
Way back in the mists of 2012, farmers discovered a massive trunk of prehistoric oak preserved for 5,000 years in…
Secrets of Vermeer’s Milkmaid revealed
A new study of Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece The Milkmaid has revealed painted-over details of his original composition that shed new…
3,000-year-old canoe recovered from Wisconsin lake
Less than a year after a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe was recovered from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, a second even more…
Unique Neolithic mass grave found in Slovakia
Archaeologists have discovered a unique Neolithic mass grave of headless bodies in Vráble, western Slovakia. The skeletons were found inside…
