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A rare Salona face-down burial—Grave 162 at Hortus Metrodori in the western necropolis of ancient Salona near Solin, Croatia—has drawn fresh attention after the site’s fifth excavation season. The individual was laid… The post Rare Salona Face-Down Burial Packed with Glass and Gems appeared first on AllThatHistory.

Newly published fieldwork at Oued Beht in Khémisset Province, northwestern Morocco, has dated a multiphase Oued Beht defensive ditch, earthen embankment, and stone wall along the ridge tip long known as Wall… The post Oued Beht Defensive Ditch Rewrites Morocco’s Bronze Age Map appeared first on AllThatHistory.

Archaeologists working at Liman Tepe in Urla, on İzmir’s Aegean coast, have uncovered stone channels between terraces at different elevations—an approximately 5,000-year-old drainage system that excavation director Prof. Vasıf Şahoğlu of Ankara… The post Liman Tepe Drainage System: 5,000-Year-Old Stone Channels in Urla appeared first on AllThatHistory.

A rare diorite mace head has emerged from a stone-covered kurgan in western Azerbaijan, pointing to a Middle Bronze Age burial dated to about 3,600 years ago. The find comes from Kurgan… The post 3,600-Year-Old Elite Warrior Burial Unearthed at Keshikchidagh, Azerbaijan appeared first on AllThatHistory.

At Chan Chan—the vast adobe capital of the Chimú on Peru’s northern coast—archaeologists have opened a funerary platform that stayed largely sealed for about six centuries. Inside the Utzh An walled complex… The post Chan Chan’s Intact Chimú Funerary Platform Holds 38 Elite Burials appeared first on AllThatHistory.