Jessica Esther Saraceni

DEBNEVO, BULGARIA—Live Science reports that five small gold coins minted during the sixth-century a.d. reign […]

GERSTETTEN, GERMANY—According to a report in The Independent, a 1,700-year-old grave was discovered in southern […]

BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that archaeologist Ahmed Said El-Kharadly of Egypt’s Supreme Council of […]

KLOTZOW, GERMANY—According to a Live Science report, a bildstein, or stone carved with a picture during the medieval period, was discovered during a home construction project in northern Germany. This three-foot-long stone bears an image of a person wearing a cap, a short robe, and shoes. He is also shown wearing a shawl with a cross at its end thought to represent a pallium—a garment worn by Christian popes, archbishops, and very honorable bishops, said chief state archaeologist Detlef Jantzen of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation. The image is thus thought to depict Otto of Bamberg, a Christian bishop and missionary who visited the region in the twelfth century. “Otto [is known to have] received the pallium from Pope Paschalis II,” Jantzen said, so that when the bishop was traveling in Pomerania in 1124 and 1128, he was the first and only possible bearer of a pallium at that time in that area. Otto was also remembered for negotiating peace between the Polish duke and the Pomeranian nobility, Jantzen concluded. To read more about medieval Germany, go to "Letter from Germany: Berlin's Medieval Origins."

INNLANDEET COUNTY, NORWAY—According to a Newsweek report, a 1,300-year-old arrow was recovered from Norway’s Lendbreen […]

CHORZELE, POLAND—According to a report in Notes from Poland, a pointed bronze Celtic helmet with a neckpiece has been unearthed in northern Poland by researchers from the University of Warsaw and Poland’s National Museum of Archaeology (PMA). The artifact has been dated to the fourth century B.C.

BARCELONA, SPAIN—A new study of populations in southeastern Spain some 4,200 years ago suggests that […]

ANTALYA, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, excavations at the site of the ancient port of Andriake uncovered the remains of decorative millefiori panels, a glasswork technique fusing different sizes and colors of glass rods which are then cut into sections and re-fused together to form patterns. Nevzat Çevik of Akdeniz University said that each of the hundreds of small, flat glass fragments measures about one and one-half inches square. They were found in the city’s agora, in a building thought to have been the port’s administrative center in the fifth and sixth centuries

STAVANGER, NORWAY— Science Norway reports that four large silver arm rings were discovered at the site of a Viking farm on the coast of southwestern Norway. Buildings for housing people and animals, soapstone pots, rivets, knife blades, and whetstones have also been uncovered at the site. The arm rings, dated to around A.D.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Cosmos Magazine reports that a new genetic study suggests that the Rapa Nui of […]