Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what archaeologists have uncovered at the Hôtel-Dieu, on the Île de la Cité, the island in the Seine where Notre-Dame stands. The wall runs for about 20 meters (roughly 65 feet) and shows clear signs of having burned […]
Nadie esperaría encontrar una fortificación de hace más de dos mil años en los patios de un hospital, pero es lo que han sacado a la luz los arqueólogos que trabajan en el Hôtel-Dieu, en la isla de la Cité, a un paso de Notre-Dame. Se trata de un muro de piedra y madera conservado […]
The eviction of an elderly disabled woman from her lifelong apartment after an investment firm bought the property and raised her rent more than fivefold has sparked nationwide outrage and protests in the Spanish capital.
In late 2025, conservators from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum brought an unassuming object to the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire: a terret, a small bronze loop that Iron Age chariots used to keep a horse’s reins from tangling. It looked modest. It was nearly 2,000 years old. And under X-ray analysis, it turned out to […]
A finales de 2025, un equipo de conservadores del Museo Ashmolean de Oxford llevó hasta las instalaciones del sincrotrón Diamond Light Source, en Oxfordshire, un objeto de apariencia modesta pero de casi 2.000 años de antigüedad: un terret, la anilla de bronce que en los carros de la Edad del Hierro guiaba las riendas del […]
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In 1889, a team from the École française de Rome reached a circular earthen mound roughly 30 meters (about 98 feet) across, in the Polledrara necropolis on the southern edge of the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci, in central Italy. They identified it, named it the Tumulo Gsell after French archaeologist Stéphane Gsell, and left […]
En 1889, un equipo de la École française de Rome llegó hasta un montículo circular de unos 30 metros de diámetro en la necrópolis de la Polledrara, al sur de la antigua Vulci. Lo identificaron, le dieron nombre —Tumulo Gsell, por el arqueólogo francés Stéphane Gsell— y lo dejaron ahí. Nunca lo excavaron por completo. […]
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In the mountainous interior of Sardinia, where the Gennargentu massif gives way to the valleys of the Flumendosa river, a site called S’Arcu ‘e is Forros has been surprising archaeologists for more than four decades. Its Sardinian name translates roughly as “the pass of the furnaces” — a fitting label, as it turns out. On […]
En el interior montañoso de Cerdeña, donde el Gennargentu empieza a ceder terreno a los valles del Flumendosa, hay un yacimiento que lleva más de cuarenta años sorprendiendo a los arqueólogos que lo excavan. Se llama S’Arcu ‘e is Forros, un nombre en sardo que significa aproximadamente «el paso de los hornos», y el 18 […]
In the spring of 2019, workers dredging gravel at Deinham, a site on the Danube in Upper Austria, kept snagging strange double-pointed iron objects in the excavator’s bucket. Instead of tossing them into the scrap pile — the usual fate of corroded iron pulled from riverbeds, since it rarely looks as recognizable as bronze — […]
En la primavera de 2019, unos trabajadores que extraían grava en Deinham, en el municipio de Hartkirchen an der Donau (Alta Austria), notaron que la excavadora sacaba numerosos objetos de hierro de doble punta. En lugar de desecharlos, avisaron a la Oficina Federal de Monumentos. Aquel gesto permitió recuperar el mayor conjunto de barras de […]
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday blamed a failure of Moroccan border controls for a recent migrant crisis in Spain's North African territory of Ceuta.
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The head of Spain's public broadcaster said on Tuesday he supported boycotting Eurovision again over Israel's participation, potentially adding to the countries snubbing the world's biggest live televised music event.
A small piece of clay, not much bigger than a matchbox, took nearly a year for archaeologists to identify. When they finally did, it turned out to belong to one of the most famous documents in the ancient world: the peace treaty that closed out a war between two Bronze Age superpowers, sealed more than […]
Entre las ruinas de Büyükkale, la colina fortificada que albergaba el palacio real de los reyes hititas, un equipo de arqueólogos ha desenterrado un pequeño fragmento de arcilla que ha tardado casi un año en revelar su identidad. Los especialistas han confirmado que ese trozo de tablilla, hallado cerca de los restos del llamado «Edificio […]
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