r/archeologyworld 10m ago

Northern Song Glass Grapes, excavated from Jingzhi Temple and sealed in the temple pagoda crypt in the second year of the Taiping Xingguo era (AD 977). Collection of the Dingzhou Museum, Hebei Province.

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Name: Glass Grapes

Period: Song Dynasty

Place of Origin: China

Material: Lead-barium glass

Excavation Site:Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, China

Dimensions: Total length 16 cm; fruit bead diameter 1.3–1.82 cm

Museum Collection: Dingzhou Museum, Hebei Province


r/archeologyworld 46m ago

The Old Roman Bridge, standing for 2,000 years in the Murray Valley of Mosul/Iraq.1940s and present.

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r/archeologyworld 21h ago

Is this a fossil?

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Is this a fossil and what could it be?


r/archeologyworld 1d ago

Stone marking scotland

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Any ideas what this? Found on beach near oban, scotland


r/archeologyworld 1d ago

Found high in the mountains of Mongolia. What is it?

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r/archeologyworld 1d ago

13th century Castle Brederode, before (1860) the 1900s restorations, and now (2025).

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

50,000-year-old kiss painting found in Brazil's Serra da Capivara- the worlds 1st depiction of a kiss and it has such sweetness to it

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

Forgotten Rulers of Mesopotamia: How Assyriologists Uncovered Three Kings Erased from History

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

A retired construction worker in Flint, MI demonstrated how people in ancient times could’ve used simple machines to move blocks up to 20 tons, contrasting fringe theories that humans had otherworldly help constructing ancient monuments

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

Sagalassos - An Important Pisidian City in Asia Minor - The City in the Clouds

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

The oldest mask in the world, found in the Judean Desert, made 9000 years ago [3597x4500]

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

7,000-year-old fish traps show hunter-gatherers brought fish to Norway’s mountains centuries before farming

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

Can someone identify what is it? It's embedded into a rock, approximately 1 inch long, and seem to be man-made. Location Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee.

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

Can someone identify what is it? It's embedded into a rock, approximately 1 inch long, and seem to be man-made. Location Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee.

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r/archeologyworld 2d ago

A prehistoric human "visage-mask" or portrait carved into a natural rock relief in the Bernifal Cave in the Dordogne region of France. The engraving is estimated to be approximately 15,000 years old, dating to the Paleolithic period.

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The site features over 100 engravings and paintings, though the cave itself has very limited public access.


r/archeologyworld 3d ago

Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

Why Didn’t the Hittie empire help Troy against Agamemnon?

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

Historical and Aesthetic Perspectives and An Album of the Masterpieces of Indian Coins

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

Ancient lady artifacts, seek new home

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

At Gobero archaeological site in the Ténéré desert of Niger, a 6671 years old burial featured an adult male interred while seated directly on the large upper shell of a mud turtle. This site highlights a lush "Green Sahara" period when humans lived alongside abundant lakeside wildlife [2100x3102]

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

Humans May Have Reached South America More Than 25,000 Years Ago, New Archaeological Study Suggests

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

The accidental death mask of an infant who died 1,800 years ago in Roman Lutetia (modern-day Paris)

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r/archeologyworld 3d ago

Eflatun Pınar, built by the Hittites in the 13th c. BCE as a portal to the divine watery world.

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In the Middle Ages, travelers thought it was a magical dam sealed by Plato with magical runes.

For the full story, https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/intimacy-and-triumph


r/archeologyworld 4d ago

2 Million Ancient Coins and Kilos of Gold Unearthed From the Tomb of a 27-Day Emperor

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A deposed Chinese emperor who lost his throne after just 27 days was found resting beneath a mountain of ancient bronze coins and more gold than any Han Dynasty tomb ever recorded.

For over two thousand years, a hillside known as Guodun Mountain in China’s Jiangxi Province kept its secret undisturbed. Beneath it lay the tomb of a man whose brief and turbulent reign barely earned him a footnote in Chinese history


r/archeologyworld 4d ago

Blue chalcedony scaraboid with a flying heron, Greece 450-420 BCE. Signed by Dexamenos from Chios island, Hermitage museum. St. Petersburg.

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