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Archaeological trenches and stone-built structures at Yassıtepe Höyük, Bornova Plain, İzmir
23 SEP 2026 · 3 MIN

Yassıtepe Trade Settlement: İzmir’s 5,000-Year-Old Fortified Hub

On the Bornova Plain in modern İzmir, archaeologists are refining the picture of a roughly 5,000-year-old planned community that excavation director Doç. Dr. Zafer Derin has nicknamed “İzmir’s Troy.” That phrase is…

Stone-and-wood Gallic wall stretch in Hôtel-Dieu courtyard, Île de la Cité
23 SEP 2026 · 3 MIN

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…

Surviving Late Bronze Age fortification masonry at Troy (Hisarlık)
22 SEP 2026 · 4 MIN

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…

Newly identified Kadesh Peace Treaty cuneiform fragment from Hattusa
22 SEP 2026 · 3 MIN

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…

Bronze vessel from Shangzhaoyao Qin Mausoleum, Weicheng, Xianyang
21 SEP 2026 · 3 MIN

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…

Iron bars from the Deinham Danube La Tène find on gravel.
21 SEP 2026 · 1 MIN

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…