Articles from category Archaeology

Drone view of layers in Wee Jasper.

Could the 395-million-year-old Devonian reef explain modern climate change?

Might a fossil reef serve as a kind of geological Pompeii – preserving traces of a world that existed hundreds of millions of years ago almost like a freeze-frame? Although…

Mound K8 as viewed through the treetops.

Twice buried: A forest barrow cemetery at the crossroads of belief

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary forest. But beneath the surface lies a story of death, belief, and ancient ritual. In Nowy Chorów, a small village in Słupsk…

Alligator remains found: teeth from Židlochovice (left) and Pińczów (right), and an osteoderm from Szczerców (center).

No other crocodile has “gone” this far. What will the reptile remains discovered in “Bełchatów” reveal?

The discoverers are an international team of researchers co-led by scientists from the Departments of Geology and Biology at the University of Warsaw. Site of discovery: Szczerców – the western…

Eye-tracking research at an exhibition of medieval Nubian garments at the Bode-Museum in Berlin.

Seeing the past in a new light: Eye-tracking in archaeology

Eye-tracking has transformed fields ranging from marketing and medicine to sports and interface design. Now, researchers at the University of Warsaw are bringing it into archaeology. By tracking where our…

View of the Polish excavation site. The darker surface – where people are standing – is slag.

The untold story of copper: Polish archaeologists reconstruct Oman’s industrial past

Sand, rock, and relentless heat – this is a landscape straight out of Dune. In northern Oman, the real treasure wasn’t spice, but copper – mined for thousands of years.…

Once the floor was removed, it became clear something lay beneath the church

A routine church renovation led to a groundbreaking discovery in Cegłów

St. John the Baptist and St. Andrew’s church in Cegłów was due for a new floor and heating system. A routine renovation, however, turned into an archaeological breakthrough that changes…

A view of the excavation site. In the foreground is the edge of the Dry Moat; in the background is the Step Pyramid; between them are the remains of the tombs of the Lower Necropolis (on the right) and the pits where the burials of the Upper Necropolis were located.

The mysteries of Saqqara: What can this ancient necropolis reveal about us today?

Pyramids, mummies, pharaohs – these are the images of ancient Egypt etched into our collective imagination. Yet they capture only a fraction of thousands of years of history, social transformation,…

Roman tableware.

Fragments of the past: Another season of archaeological work at Gonio-Apsaros

Amphora kilns, ceramic vessels, and a gold votive plaque are among the latest discoveries revealing new details about life in ancient Colchis under Roman rule. At the Roman fort of…

A lesson in archaeology. The once-inaccessible city is now open to Polish researchers again.

Ptolemais is one of the largest ancient Greek cities, located in the historical region of Cyrenaica in northeastern Libya. For centuries, it has drawn the attention of archaeologists worldwide, though…

Dr. Andrzej Maciałowicz next to the Celtic helmet. Photo by Dr. Bartłomiej Kaczyński

The mysteries of a 2,500-year-old Celtic helmet. A spectacular archaeological discovery in northern Mazovia

Near the village of Chorzele in northern Mazovia (a historical region in central Poland), archaeologists have unearthed a helmet dating to the turn of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.…

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