In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles. Human bones were also used as a raw material for pendants, as demonstrated by a study where burial finds dating back more than 8,200 years were re-examined after 80 years. Grave 69,…
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A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly 2 meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials by SUSU specialists as part of an international team. This weapon had the greatest accuracy, shooting distance and killing power in its time. Credit: Spiridon Bakas Reconstructing objects according to archaeological data is one of the most important…
Beginning in August 2021, the Sambia Peninsula Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is conducting archaeological excavations at the Putilovo-2 soil burial ground ahead of a proposed highway construction in the Zelenogradsky district, in the Kaliningrad region of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Funerary inventory…
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Expedition members of IA RAS have found a unique plate depicting winged Scythian gods surrounded by griffons during their excavations of the burial ground Devitsa V in Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh region. This is the first case of such a finding in the Scythian barrows on Middle Don. No other items depictions of gods from…
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A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years ago. Its analysis of minerals in southern China indicate that volcano eruptions produced a “volcanic winter” that drastically lowered earth’s temperatures — a change that added to the environmental effects resulting from other phenomena at…
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The joint excavations of the Tuva archaeological expedition of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMC RAS) and Krasnoyarsk Geoarchaeology LLC working at the Khondergey 22 burial ground in the south-west of the Republic of Tuva, close to Russia’s border with Mongolia, revealed a ritual and memorial…
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Dutch appeals judges on Tuesday ruled that a priceless collection of Crimean gold “must be handed over to Ukraine,” in a decision welcomed by Kiev but criticised by Russia. A Dutch court has ruled that a priceless collection of gold artefacts from Crimea that were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia occupied the peninsula…
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Amber research by the Oregon State University College of Science has produced the first definite identification of grass in fossilized tree resin from the Baltic region, home to the world’s most well-known amber deposits. Eograminis balticus [Credit: Oregon State University] The specimen studied by George Poinar Jr., named Eograminis balticus, also represents the first fossil…
A wealthy woman was laid to rest nearly 3,000 years ago with unique rings, bracelet, temple rings and a massive bronze pendant. The stone-built grave with a treasure trove of bronze jewellery was made between 2,700 and 2,900 years ago in what is now the Republic of Khakassia, southern Siberia. Overview of burial [Credit: Novosibirsk…
During the archaeological expedition under the guidance of the Associate Professor Aleksandr Zhulnikov, students of Petrozavodsk State University have made a valuable discovery. While investigating ancient encampments on the western shore of Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, northwestern Russia, the expedition discovered a burial site of a man with many amber ornaments and…
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