In 2022, medical CT scanners let Egyptologists peer inside sealed sarcophagi without ever lifting a lid. In 2026, the same basic technology — pointed not at a pharaoh’s mummy but at two silver brooches from a German field — has just done something similar for archaeology north of the Roman frontier. The brooches came out […]

The archaeological find could hardly have been more modest: a small ring made of copper alloy, with a few Greek letters engraved on it and the image of a ceramic vessel. Yet its insignificant appearance conceals an extraordinary story that has kept specialists on tenterhooks since its existence was revealed in 2018. The seal, recovered […]