https://ancientherald.com/News from the ancient worldhttps://ancientherald.com/2026/10/saqqara-tomb-of-official-weni-held-bronze-tools-that-may-be-medical/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/saqqara-tomb-of-official-weni-held-bronze-tools-that-may-be-medical/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:28:05 +0000The Old Kingdom official was buried beside King Merenre's pyramid, and although his tomb held the instruments, no inscription in his burial chamber calls him a doctor.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/neolithic-workshop-with-malachite-and-copper-beads-found-in-diyarbakr/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/neolithic-workshop-with-malachite-and-copper-beads-found-in-diyarbakr/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:28:05 +0000The roughly 9,000-year-old work area had a stone-paved floor and six postholes, and Turkey's culture minister says local mining continued for about 2,000 years.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/ancient-genomes-show-roman-rule-reshaped-iberia-s-population-more-than/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/ancient-genomes-show-roman-rule-reshaped-iberia-s-population-more-than/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:00:02 +0000A study of 243 people who lived between the 1st and 8th centuries AD puts the Germanic newcomers' genetic share at 12 to 22 percent, depending on region and social context.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/copper-port-on-cyprus-is-older-than-its-excavators-thought/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/copper-port-on-cyprus-is-older-than-its-excavators-thought/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:20:57 +0000Swedish archaeologists have found the first buildings at Hala Sultan Tekke from the 17th to the 15th century BC.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/roman-soldier-in-velsen-well-was-stabbed-in-a-frenzy-study-finds/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/roman-soldier-in-velsen-well-was-stabbed-in-a-frenzy-study-finds/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:20:57 +0000Leiden archaeologists reopened a 1977 find and think the man's own comrades most likely killed him.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/iron-age-palisade-across-a-jutland-road-hints-at-a-forgotten-conflict/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/iron-age-palisade-across-a-jutland-road-hints-at-a-forgotten-conflict/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:20:57 +0000A belt of post pits from around 500 BC blocked the old Drivvej in western Denmark.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/buildings-beside-liangzhu-s-royal-tombs-may-have-been-a-hall-for-the-d/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/buildings-beside-liangzhu-s-royal-tombs-may-have-been-a-hall-for-the-d/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:20:57 +0000Post holes at Fanshan outline three wooden buildings next to China's highest-ranking Neolithic graves, built about 5,000 years ago.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/early-bronze-age-shipwreck-with-amphorae-up-to-4-700-years-old-found-o/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/early-bronze-age-shipwreck-with-amphorae-up-to-4-700-years-old-found-o/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:57:07 +0000At least 30 storage jars, some probably made in the Jordan Valley, lie about 30 metres down near Kekova Island, though the wooden hull has not survived.https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/hittite-royal-archive-found-in-turkey-records-fever-epidemic-and-baby/https://ancientherald.com/2026/10/hittite-royal-archive-found-in-turkey-records-fever-epidemic-and-baby/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:04:21 +0000Excavators at Kayalıpınar, ancient Šamuḫa, recovered 131 tablets and fragments from the reign of Tudhaliya II in 2026, bringing the archive to 184 pieces.https://ancientherald.com/2026/09/fragment-of-kadesh-peace-treaty-between-hittites-and-egypt-found-at-ha/https://ancientherald.com/2026/09/fragment-of-kadesh-peace-treaty-between-hittites-and-egypt-found-at-ha/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:05:52 +0000The clay piece, part of an Akkadian copy of the pact between Ramesses II and Hattusili III, preserves clauses on people fleeing between the two kingdoms.https://ancientherald.com/2026/08/statue-of-a-human-seated-on-a-leopard-found-at-neolithic-karahan-tepe/https://ancientherald.com/2026/08/statue-of-a-human-seated-on-a-leopard-found-at-neolithic-karahan-tepe/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000The 70-centimetre sculpture, about 11,000 years old, reverses a known motif at the site, where earlier statues show humans carrying live leopards on their backs.https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/byzantine-shipwreck-off-croatia-held-record-gold-haul-and-an-emperor-s/https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/byzantine-shipwreck-off-croatia-held-record-gold-haul-and-an-emperor-s/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:22:48 +0000The 7th or 8th-century ship that sank near Mljet carried more than 600 grams of gold, jewelled belt sets and a signet ring showing a Heraclian emperor.https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/three-forgotten-assyrian-kings-identified-in-old-cuneiform-texts-from/https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/three-forgotten-assyrian-kings-identified-in-old-cuneiform-texts-from/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:12:47 +0000Yale and Münster researchers argue that three short-lived Neo-Assyrian rulers of the 10th and 8th centuries BC were later removed from the official Assyrian King List.https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/ancient-dna-suggests-scythian-elites-inherited-power-and-kazakhstan-s/https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/ancient-dna-suggests-scythian-elites-inherited-power-and-kazakhstan-s/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000Genomes from 85 Iron Age steppe nomads show that high-status people were related across cemeteries more than 100 km apart, and nearly half of them were women.https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/byzantine-town-with-basilica-and-about-200-ostraca-found-in-egypt-s-da/https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/byzantine-town-with-basilica-and-about-200-ostraca-found-in-egypt-s-da/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000The 4th-century AD mudbrick settlement at Ain el-Sabil had a street grid, a central church, a fortress and an earlier house that may have served as a church.https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/surviving-text-of-charred-herculaneum-scroll-from-vesuvius-eruption-re/https://ancientherald.com/2026/07/surviving-text-of-charred-herculaneum-scroll-from-vesuvius-eruption-re/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:13:18 +0000Nearly 1.5 metres of text from PHerc. 1667, a Greek philosophical work of around the 2nd century BC that may be Stoic, were recovered with X-ray scans and AI.https://ancientherald.com/2026/06/bronze-ritual-cart-with-griffins-found-at-tartessian-site-in-spain/https://ancientherald.com/2026/06/bronze-ritual-cart-with-griffins-found-at-tartessian-site-in-spain/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:55:12 +0000Half of the 5th-century BC cart, decorated with a horned river god sticking out its tongue, has been recovered at Casas del Turuñuelo in Extremadura.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/indus-city-of-mohenjo-daro-grew-more-equal-as-it-prospered-study-finds/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/indus-city-of-mohenjo-daro-grew-more-equal-as-it-prospered-study-finds/Thu, 21 May 2026 08:38:07 +0000University of York researchers analysed house sizes from old excavation records and found the gap between large and small homes narrowed as the city matured.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/mycenaean-palace-near-sparta-was-centre-of-bronze-age-lacedaemonians-s/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/mycenaean-palace-near-sparta-was-centre-of-bronze-age-lacedaemonians-s/Tue, 19 May 2026 19:40:50 +0000A Linear B archive at Aghios Vasileios and a hilltop sanctuary at Amyklai suggest the Spartans joined an older Lacedaemonian community rather than replacing it.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/satellite-survey-maps-280-stone-burial-enclosures-of-ancient-cattle-he/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/satellite-survey-maps-280-stone-burial-enclosures-of-ancient-cattle-he/Fri, 15 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000Only about 20 of the circular tombs in the Atbai Desert were known before; they were built between about 4500 and 2500 BC as the Sahara dried.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/horse-domestication-in-eurasia-began-centuries-earlier-than-thought-st/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/horse-domestication-in-eurasia-began-centuries-earlier-than-thought-st/Fri, 15 May 2026 08:12:10 +0000A Science Advances study argues that people rode, milked and managed horses in the 4th millennium BC, long before the spread of the DOM2 lineage around 2200 BC.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/inland-spain-s-oldest-monumental-cemetery-dated-to-6-000-years-ago-nea/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/inland-spain-s-oldest-monumental-cemetery-dated-to-6-000-years-ago-nea/Wed, 13 May 2026 21:00:24 +0000Dates on human bones show the planned cemetery, with a central tomb inside a 36-metre ditch, was laid out in the late fifth millennium BC.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/timber-platform-over-5-000-years-old-found-beneath-scottish-crannog-on/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/timber-platform-over-5-000-years-old-found-beneath-scottish-crannog-on/Fri, 08 May 2026 08:57:29 +0000Archaeologists recorded the Neolithic island above and below the waterline as one structure, using a new shallow-water camera method described in Advances in Archaeological Practice.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/circular-ptolemaic-bath-and-roman-villa-with-mosaics-found-in-alexandr/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/circular-ptolemaic-bath-and-roman-villa-with-mosaics-found-in-alexandr/Wed, 06 May 2026 09:43:07 +0000Rescue excavations in central Alexandria found a site occupied from the Ptolemaic to the Byzantine period, with marble statues of Bacchus, Asclepius and possibly Minerva.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/two-linear-b-signs-read-as-perfume-ingredients-on-mycenaean-tablets-fr/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/two-linear-b-signs-read-as-perfume-ingredients-on-mycenaean-tablets-fr/Tue, 05 May 2026 11:49:35 +0000Researchers read one sign as a plant root and argue that another, long taken to mean fruit, records a dry stalk such as cinnamon or fenugreek.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/roman-babies-in-york-were-buried-in-tyrian-purple-cloth-one-with-gold/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/roman-babies-in-york-were-buried-in-tyrian-purple-cloth-one-with-gold/Sat, 02 May 2026 12:27:33 +0000Chemical tests on gypsum burial casings held by York Museums Trust give the first confirmed evidence of the costly imperial dye on Roman textiles from York.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/enamelled-roman-cup-naming-hadrian-s-wall-forts-found-in-central-spain/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/enamelled-roman-cup-naming-hadrian-s-wall-forts-found-in-central-spain/Fri, 01 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000Found by a farmer near Berlanga de Duero, the 2nd-century bronze cup is the first of its rare type to list forts on the Wall's eastern sector.https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/ancient-dna-shows-northern-europeans-settled-on-rome-s-german-frontier/https://ancientherald.com/2026/05/ancient-dna-shows-northern-europeans-settled-on-rome-s-german-frontier/Fri, 01 May 2026 01:00:51 +0000Genomes from 258 people buried in Bavaria and Hesse between AD 400 and 700 show northern Europeans arrived before Rome's collapse and merged with provincial populations after about 470.https://ancientherald.com/2026/04/imaging-recovers-42-lost-pages-of-6th-century-new-testament-manuscript/https://ancientherald.com/2026/04/imaging-recovers-42-lost-pages-of-6th-century-new-testament-manuscript/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:57:07 +0000Codex H, a copy of St Paul's letters cut up for bindings at the Great Lavra Monastery, holds the earliest known chapter lists for Paul's letters.https://ancientherald.com/2026/04/two-hidden-voids-found-behind-east-face-of-menkaure-pyramid-at-giza/https://ancientherald.com/2026/04/two-hidden-voids-found-behind-east-face-of-menkaure-pyramid-at-giza/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:52:36 +0000Radar, ultrasound and resistivity scans by the ScanPyramids team located two air-filled cavities behind a polished granite patch, supporting the idea of a second entrance.