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An excavation of the Bronze Age Aççana Mound in the Old City of Alalah in Turkey’s southeastern Hatay province has uncovered an Akkadian cuneiform tablet that records a large furniture purchase. The tablet is petite at just 1.65 inches by 1.38 inches with a thickness of 0.63 inches and weighing just shy of an ounce.…

A Roman cinerary urn with an important dedicatory inscription has been has come to light in Portogruaro, a town on the outskirts of Venice, northern Italy. The urn dates to between the 1st century B.C. and the middle of the 1st century A.D. Engraved in Latin capitals on the front of the box is an…

For the first time in 2,000 years, human eyes have seen the contents of the sealed sarcophagus inside the Tomb of Cerberus, the vividly frescoed chamber tomb found in Giugliano, outside Naples, last year. Archaeologists threaded a microcamera into a gap in the sarcophagus to view and photograph the interior. They found an inhumed body…

A small sheet of silver inscribed in Greek has been revealed to be the earliest Christian artifact ever discovered in Bulgaria. The amulet dates to the second half of the 2nd century or the beginning of the 3rd, and contains the first mention of Christ, the first sign of the cross and the first references…