Author: AllThatHistory
Ancient Paris Wall Find May Point to Gallic Lutetia on Île de la Cité
A stretch of stone-and-wood fortification under one of Paris’s oldest hospital courtyards is forcing a fresh look at where the city’s Gallic story begins. French culture officials this week described the find…
Troy’s Earliest Agora: Settlers Returned Within a Century
Archaeologists working at Hisarlık in northwestern Türkiye say a Troy agora discovery has clarified how the legendary city became later Ilion — not after centuries of silence, but within a few generations…
Kadesh Peace Treaty Fragment Found at Hattusa Covers Fugitives
Researchers working at Hattusa, the Hittite capital near Boğazkale in Çorum province, central Türkiye, have identified a newly recovered clay piece as a Kadesh peace treaty fragment—an Akkadian cuneiform copy of the…
Proposed Huayang Qin mausoleum fills gap in Xianyang’s late Qin royal cemeteries
Chinese archaeologists have outlined a late Warring States Qin royal cemetery on the Xianyang plain that researchers say Huayang Qin mausoleum debates have long needed: a well-planned “double-ring” burial landscape whose scale…
Deinham Danube Iron Bars: Europe’s Largest La Tène Iron Cargo
A hoard of roughly 500 bipyramidal Deinham Danube iron bars—about a metric ton of La Tène semi-finished iron—recovered from a Danube gravel pit at Deinham near Hartkirchen, Upper Austria, is the largest…
Carmei Gat Mikveh Lifted Intact by IAA at Kiryat Gat
The Israel Antiquities Authority has lifted a roughly 2,000-year-old Second Temple–period Carmei Gat mikveh—about 25 tons and roughly 4 m wide—intact from the Carmei Gat neighborhood of Kiryat Gat, southern Israel. Excavation…