The History Blog

A prehistoric battle-axe head discovered in 1974 at Scarthingwell, near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, has been temporarily blocked from export to give museums and local collectors a chance to buy it and keep it in the UK where it can be on public display.

A rare surviving Suffragette Christmas card found in Mold, Flintshire, has been donated to the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The has been discovered at the Huaca de la Luna archaeological site in northern Peru.

A rare monumental inscription likely dating to the Augustan era has been discovered at the site of ancient baths in Fortuna, Spain.

An excavation of a late 5th century burial mound in central Japan has uncovered a clay figurine representing a female shaman (miko).

The last of the four jatte téton, the breast-shaped bowls made by Sèvres for Queen Marie Antoinette’s pleasure dairy at the Château de Rambouillet, has been rediscovered more than 200 years after its last known appearance.

A Bronze Age hoard found near Blyth Bridge in the Scottish Borders contains exceptional surviving raw materials for metal work, including the first copper ingot ever discovered from Bronze Age Scotland and casting moulds used for producing decorative fitt…

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Iron Age defensive barrier in West Jutland, Denmark.

A terracotta sarcophagus bearing a relief of a Silenus mask has been discovered at the ancient site of Attouda in western Turkey.

An elaborate three-tier antique bronze fountain weighing approximately a ton was stolen from the garden of an estate in Fisherton de la Mere, near Warminster.

The remains of a settlement with a domestic space carved out of built into the bedrock has been discovered near the Meria marina in Cap Corse, Corsica.

A new multidisciplinary study of a rare surviving life-sized Etruscan bronze statue has found that the black patina was intentionally created in antiquity, not the result of natural aging or a later coating.

A pair of polyhedral gold earrings and a 3rd century Roman coin have been discovered in a child’s grave in Stara Zagora, central Bulgaria.

An underwater excavation at Kekova island on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey has uncovered amphorae between 4,400 to 4,700 years old, dating back to the Early Bronze Age.

Archaeologists have uncovered a royal archive of cuneiform tablets in the ancient Hittite city of Samuha, modern-day Sivas, central Turkey.

A painting by figurative painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-77) bought at Michigan estate sale last year for $30 has sold at auction for $1,352,600.

A unique bronze seal ring engraved with a depiction of the famed Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, has been discovered in the city’s harbour.

An excavation in the city of Troyes in northeastern France has unearthed three burials from Late Antiquity with well-preserved grave goods, including intact glass vessels.

What at first sight looked like an ancient firepit has proven to be a rare 4,000-year-old stone cist grave in Halden, southeastern Norway.

A small bronze artifact discovered during a search for landmines on South Korea’s Geumseongsan Mountain has been identified as Korea’s oldest gunpowder weapon.

Norway’s largest coin hoard has now officially passed the 5,000 coin count.

A Roman shipwreck with more than 6,000 pieces of intact tableware has been discovered off the Mediterranean coast of Adrasan in Antalya, Turkey.

Six early medieval Arabic silver dirhams and fragments of two more have been discovered in the woods near Elblag, northern Poland.

Two rare Florentine vases from the 16th century made in the attempt to produce in Europe porcelain of like quality and type as that imported from China have been donated to the Museum of San Marco in Florence.

The remains of more than 30 dwellings from the early Iron Age have been unearthed at Galgenbichl in Italy’s autonomous Alpine region of the South Tyrol.

A rare set of Celtic shield fittings and spearhead has been discovered near the village of Erdőbénye in northeastern Hungary.