Archaeological artifacts

It would be too easy to comment that the theft of antiquities from the British Museum, allegedly by a staff member who has since been sacked, is a sign of divine providence: the repository of much of humanity's history, some of it of dubious provenance or evident theft, is getting a taste of its own medicine, and proving to be a far less adequate custodian of that incomparable treasure than it

A 1,900-year-old grave stele (stone) has been discovered during the excavations carried out in Parion, an important ancient port city near the Kemer Village in the northwestern province of Çanakkale's Biga district.

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Archaeological excavations continue in the ancient city of Parion, which sheds light on the region's 2,700-year-old history.

It was discovered in a war helmet

The foundations of a large Ancient Roman building which may have been burned down during a barbarian invasion in the 4th century AD have been discovered in the town of Mezdra in Northwest Bulgaria after local archaeologists began rescue excavations at a spot where a hoard of Roman silver coins was recently found underneath a tree.

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Bronze limbs, a sarcophagus lid, marble statue pieces, and a mysterious bronze disk were among the remains found during excavations of one of the world’s most ancient—and famous—shipwrecks.

The Nebra sky disk is made from bronze; it weighs about five pounds and is approximately 12 inches in diameter, with a bluish-green coating and ornaments of gold symbols. The symbols have been tentatively interpreted as a lunar crescent, a sun or full moon, and stars. One theory is that it could also represent a cluster of stars we now know as the constellation Pleiades.

A 2,700-year-old ancient funerary stele that went missing before being found in the yard of an excavation company has turned out to be a fake. 

It was determined that the stone was made out of volcanic pink andesite stone and was covered with a chemical substance to present a historical look. 

A 2,700-year-old ancient funerary stele that went missing before being found in the yard of an excavation company was poorly treated, resulting in damage, according to archaeologists.

For centuries it was just a legend, that a vast trove of treasure had spilt into China’s Minjiang River as a battle raged upon its banks. Turns out, it was true.
More than 10,000 individual items of gold and silver have been recovered from the bottom of the river as it winds its way through Sichuan Province.

Bulgarian archaeologists discovered an ancient Roman hoard consisting of 2976 silver denarii coins during excavations works at Saint Nedelya square in downtown Sofia.

The coins were found in a ceramic vessel, which bears the name of its last owner inscribed on one of its sides, Cross news agency informs.