A beautifully restored Minoan fresco depicting the "Saffron Goddess" has been discovered. This artwork, dating back around 3,600 years, was found in the ancient city of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini, Greece.
The goddess Artemis feeding a swan. Red-figured lekythos, 5th century BC, Late Archaic / Early Classical period. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
A 9th-century BC Assyrian tablet depicts a man raising his hand in prayer. This tablet stands out as an important artifact that reflects the religious beliefs and worship practices of ancient Assyrian civilization.
Burdur’un Gölhisar ilçesinde yer alan Kibyra Antik Kenti’nin tamamen yıkık halde bulunan yuvarlak planlı çeşmesi altı yıl süren zorlu restorasyon süreci sonrası tekrar eski görkemli haline döndü.
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Hungarian archaeologists discovered the tomb of a Roman doctor 1st-century man buried with high-quality surgical tools near the city of Jászberény, about 80 km from Budapest.
A green jasper Minoan seal with Cretan hieroglyphs, an undeciphered writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete during the Minoan era. 1800 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Greece .
The approximately 2,000-year-old monumental fountain in the ancient city of Kibyra in Golhisar, Burdur in southwestern Turkey will start flowing with fresh water again thanks to the restoration project of the ancient city.
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Two monumental statue heads believed to be dated to the early 3rd century have been unearthed during excavations at a cricket club in Carlisle, northern
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Limestone and reed sculptures dating back 9000 years (7200-6250 BC) at the Ain Ghazal archaeological site in Amman, Jordan. These sculptures from the Neolithic Period without pottery are one of the earliest known depictions of the human form. Photo: British Museum
Marble statue of Isis found in the north east corner of the portico of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii
Roman, AD 1–79
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli, Italy
Bronze fibula depicting the birth scene of a goddess with an antelope and eight-petaled flowers. 1250-650 BC. Found in the Iranian province of Loristan.
It is on display at the Louvre Museum.
An analysis of human hair strands recovered from a burial site in Menorca,
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, reveals that ancient human civilizations used hallucinogenic drugs derived from plants.
The Pazyryk carpet, featuring a deer motif, dates to around 2300 BC. The Pazyryk carpet is the oldest known example of a woolen woven carpet in the world and is exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum in Russia.
Terracotta Goddess figurine from Pano Chorio c. Found in Crete, 5500-4500 BC. It bears traces of cultures from the Old European Neolithic period.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece.
A pair of lynx-shaped gold earrings have been unearthed near the ruins of Ani, the once great metropolis known as the “city of a thousand and one churches”, on Turkey’s eastern border, across the Akhuryan River from Armenia.
The 2500-year-old Geto Dacian crown/headdress was discovered in 1970 in the southeast of Peretu commune, Romania, where farmers were plowing, and a tomb of a Royal character was uncovered.
A Sumerian inlay featuring a kilt-clad figure carrying a fish, from Nippur, Mesopotamia, circa 2600 BC. It is exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
4000-year-old painted pottery from the Indus Valley Civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization was observed in the northwestern regions of South Asia between 3300-1300 BC.
The Cotswold
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team excavating at the site of a planned housing development near Salisbury,
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, has unearthed a giant barrow cemetery that could be between 3,500 and 4,000 years old.
Fragment of the funerary stele of Ktetos' wife Alexandra. Found in the cemetery of Kerameikos. Hadrianic period, c. 117/138 AD - on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
An ostracon depicting a dancer with an intricate hairstyle and hoop earrings in a gymnastic backbend (made of limestone), originating from Deir el-Medina. It dates back to the New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, around 1200 BCE. It is currently housed in the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
Oldest known 'paycheck': Workers were paid in beer
According to cuneiform writing on a nearly 5,000-year-old tablet, workers in Mesopotamia received their daily wages in beer rations. The tablet, dated to 3300 BC, was found in the Sumerian city of Uruk.
Archaeologists have discovered “massive” ancient Roman forts that redraw the borders of the ancient empire using images from a declassified satellite spying program of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Baal Stele of Lightning
-2000 BC / 1150 BC (Middle Bronze; Late Bronze)
Location of discovery: Acropolis of Ras Shamra (west of the Temple of Baal)
Department of Oriental Antiquities
Antibiotic bacteria that fight E. coli and other dangerous bugs found in the Roman Baths at Bath in England, “Bath’s waters may really be good for you”
Fragment of a trough with a nude male figure from southern Mesopotamia. (ca. 3300 BC) This relief is made of plaster alabaster and measures 16.6 x 15 x 4.5 cm.
It is currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York, United States.
Relief showing Anubis as a Roman legionary preparing the mummy of a deceased person laid on a funeral cedar.
2nd century AD. Kom El Shoqafa Catacombs, Alexandria.
Photo: Patrick Landmann
Scythian Gold Gorytos, 4th century BC
A gorytos is a carrying case for both - bow and arrows.
Found in the Chertomlyk Barrow near Nikopol, Dnieper Area, Ukraine. The Hermitage
Early Neolithic marble statuette representing the Mother Goddess found on Azmashka hill, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. 6200-5800 BC.
Museum of Neolithic Dwellings, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
A statue head dated to the 2nd century AD was unearthed during the excavations at the Ancient Smyrna Theater, located on the slope between Izmir, Kadifekale, and the Smyrna Agora.
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Off the coast of Pozzuoli on the Phlegrean Peninsula in Campania,
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, underwater archaeologists have identified a sunken Nabataeans temple with the discovery of two Roman marble altars.
Mithraism is a religion that originated in Iran. It began as a part of Zoroastrianism, which believed in the sky god Ahura Mazda, and later became an independent religion. Mithra has an important place in this religion as the god of light, justice and contract.
A 3,800-year-old Akkadian cuneiform tablet was found during the archaeological excavations carried out in the Aççana Mound, the old city of Alalakh, in the Reyhanlı district of Hatay city in southern Turkey.
A 2200-year-old terracotta chariot votive model excavated in 1924 by Franz Cumont from the Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona at Dura Europos in Salhiyah, Syria.
It is now on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.