Jessica Esther Saraceni

YONGCHENG, CHINA—Xinhua reports that a 5,000-year-old royal tomb of the Dawenkou Culture has been unearthed […]

SVINJARIČKA ČUKA, SERBIA—According to a Newsweek report, traces of an 8,000-year-old house belonging to the Starčevo culture have been unearthed in the Balkans region of southeastern Europe. The rectangular structure, made of wattle and daub with wooden posts, was preserved because it had burned, explained archaeologist Barbara Horejs of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. “The partially collapsed and burned architectural elements covered the floors inside the house as well as artifacts, tools, and scattered vessels in the presumed outdoor area,” she said. The excavators also recovered grains and seeds stored by the early farmers. It had been previously suggested that the region’s first farmers only settled in one place seasonally, and were otherwise nomadic. Members of the Starčevo culture are also known to have raised domesticated animals, Horejs concluded. To read about a village founded by farmers in Serbia’s Iron Gates Gorge some 8,200 years ago, go to “ Farmers and Foragers.”

TRONDHEIM, NORWAY—According to a Cosmos Magazine report, a skeleton recovered from a well at central […]

MERSIN PROVINCE, TURKEY— Artnet News reports that a 13-line inscription honoring a wrestler named Kaikilianos has been found on a stone base in the ancient port of Anemurium, a city founded by the Phoenicians on Turkey’s southern coastline in the first century B.C.

TVÅÅKER, SWEDEN—A Viking Age cemetery that contained more than 100 graves and several boat-shaped mounds known as stone ships has been found in southwestern Sweden by researchers led by Petra Nordin of Sweden’s National Historical Museums, according to a Live Science

CAMPECHE, MEXICO—According to a BBC News report, the ruins of a Maya city have been discovered under jungle canopy in southeastern Mexico, just a 15-minute hike from a major road. The city is thought to have been home to between 30,000 and 50,000 people between A.D.

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a Cosmos Magazine report, a DNA study of 131 sets of human […]

WARSAW, POLAND—Newsweek reports that Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski of the University of Warsaw and his colleagues have […]

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—The Associated Press reports that sandstone sculptures depicting door guardians have been unearthed […]

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, […]