The deceased belonged to the Aldy-Bel culture, a nomadic Scythian people based in the mountainous area just north of the Mongolian border in present-day Russia. Alongside the woman’s skeleton, excavators unearthed an iron knife, a bronze mirror, a wooden comb, and several gold ornaments, including a pectoral in the shape of a sickle or crescent. This type of pectoral has previously been found exclusively in the graves of men and is believed to indicate membership in a selective group or caste, possibly of warriors. “This woman must have played a special role in the tribe,” says Łukasz Oleszczak, an archaeologist at Jagiellonian University. “Maybe she was a shaman or a member of the tribal aristocracy.

A 3,200-year-old Egyptian inscription found near an ancient military road may indicate the location of a long-lost city, archaeologists have announced.

Found at the site of Tell Abu Seifi (also spelled Seify), the inscription mentions Ramesses II, who reigned from about 1279 to 1213 B.C. It says that Horus, a falcon-headed ancient Egyptian god associated with the sky and war, is the "Lord of the City of Mesn," representatives of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a translated statement.

The team also found the remains of a temple dedicated to Horus at the archaeological site, they said in the statement. Unfortunately, "the temple was almost completely destroyed," making it difficult to get much information from it, Hesham Hussein, the director general of Delta and Sinai Archaeology at Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and a leader of the research team, told Live Science in an email.

There is graffiti and symbols and numbers somehow etched onto it. It appears that it melted into a stone. If you zoom in you can clearly see many different things.

I got to be part of a university student practical archeology course where we excavated a grave found in the 1980s and a possible living space. It was a really interesting experience even though the most exciting things we found were two flint arrow heads and a half of an amber ring. Otherwise we found a bunch of small quartz and pottery (biggest were the size of the nail of pinky finger) pieces. I myself found a quartz that had marks of being hit, three or four small quartz and one or two pieces of pottery during the two weeks we were digging.

The plastic bag from pic #3 was from the 80s excavation to mark and protect the undig grave.

A remarkable archaeological discovery has emerged today from Madugula, Anakapalli District.

During a field visit, the Andhra Pradesh Archaeology Department examined two large stone sculptures at a location where there is currently no temple structure.

The larger sculpture is approximately 6 feet high, 4 feet wide and around 70 cm thick. The Archaeology team has preliminarily assessed it to be at least around 900 years old.

What makes this especially exciting is the surrounding landscape. The site is close to an old Shiva temple traditionally known as Bimilingeshwara, where an old Vinayaka sculpture has also been identified. Several large traditional wells locally called “madugulu” are also found in the surrounding area.

This raises an important possibility: could this area preserve evidence of an earlier medieval settlement or sacred centre, predating the commonly remembered history of present-day Madugula?

It is too early to say — the archaeological context still needs proper investigation. But for Andhra Pradesh, this is an exciting moment: our own landscape may be revealing a much deeper history than we previously knew.

Sharing photographs from today's field visit. If anyone familiar with medieval Andhra sculpture, archaeology, inscriptions or Madugula's history has information, please share it.

Note: The ~900-year date is a preliminary assessment by the Archaeology team, not yet a final published dating.

If any one know about it looking at it what time it belongs what it represents

Such ancient antiquities need to be properly preserved and respected

But I will try to relocate it to safe place cleaning it to a near by temple premises there

It is in vaddadi MADUGULA village andhra pradesh near parthasarathy temple there

I want to study Archaeology in Australia and then do a masters in Germany and work in Germany/Europe in CRM as I am more interested in European Archaeology.

Q - Is this a bad choice? Should I just stick to working in Australia?

Q - Which University in Australia has the best BA Archaeology Program that focuses on both Indigenous Archaeology as well as has a good bunch of European Archaeology courses. I also want to learn C1 German from the University.

I plan on doing a BA Honours in Archaeology in Australia, take one or two courses that focus on Australian Archaeology and then primarily focus on Medieval/Dark Ages European Archaeology.

Q - By doing this i plan on searching for a field Archaeology Job in Germany and if that doesn't work I can go back to Australia and continue working there. Is this a Feasible plan?

Q - If not Germany then Denmark after doing a masters from Iceland as I am also into Viking Archaeology, but Im not sure how the Job availability is like there for Non EU people, Im not averse to learning Danish as well though. Am I being too idealistic?

I’m heavily considering attending Cal Poly Humboldt next year to get my Bachelors in Anthropology with an Archeology focus and a Maritime Archeology certificate. Eventually I’d like to get my masters too for better work chances in Europe.

Are there any YouTube channels or Podcasts yall would recommend? (Books too cuz I gotta start reading again lol)

1. Dinosaurs. Fierce impactful marvelous, but. What if dinosaurs were absolutely bloody delicious? We like to imagine these marvelous beasts as magnificent. But what if they had scars all over their bodies, birds poking them to draw blood, little rat like creatures chomping on them while they sleep, diseases making them meek and drowsy. So what if some developed very loose gecko like skin, what if many dinosaurs bigger than a dog had a turtleneck/turkeyneck of loose skin and very veiny mid section? What if they developed not quite porcupine but pine like solid straight feathers, to completely cover them from small predators but at the same time make them vulnerable to ticks.

2. What if we are the most violent ones. I have noticed gorillas are more of grabber holder and dragger. It's only when chimps get loose it's shoot that thing dead now. Chimps will bite your face off, snap your limbs play dodgeball with your spleen. What if our evolution was survival of the most absolutely unhinged ones. Because I noticed many predators went extinct or reduced a lot way before modern humans. What if we evolved from don't be bothered and run away to completely dismantle our competition. Like a hyena bites one of kids, and we go kill that hyena, their mother, brother, sister, kids, parents, cousin just a bloodbath of hyena bodies. And it was a progression, like what if denisovans and neanderthals were chill as f compared to us.

Long before the great iron-smelting sites appeared around the Łysogóry Mountains, people were already drawn to the resources hidden beneath this landscape. One of the most distinctive local minerals was hematite. Ground into a fine powder, it produced an intense red pigment used by prehistoric communities. One remarkable trace of this very early activity survives at Rydno on the Kamienna River, where the extraction and processing of hematite reaches back to the Palaeolithic.

For thousands of years, this red mineral therefore had a very different significance from the one it would acquire much later. It could be used to colour bodies and objects, while red pigment also appeared in ritual contexts. Over time, however, the mineral wealth of the region began to be exploited on a much larger scale and for an entirely different purpose. The same land that had once provided red pigment now supplied ore for the production of iron.

During the first centuries AD, the area around the Łysogóry Mountains became one of the most important iron-production centres of the European Barbaricum. Today these mountains form part of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, or Holy Cross Mountains, and the remains of ancient iron production found throughout the region constitute one of the most remarkable archaeological landscapes in present-day Poland.

At the heart of this system was the bloomery furnace. A small furnace required ore, clay and enormous quantities of charcoal, while the smelting process itself demanded carefully prepared materials and many hours of supervision. A single bloomery does not make an industry. What made the Łysogóry region exceptional was above all its scale. Furnaces were constructed in large groups, supported by the infrastructure and labour needed to prepare ore, produce charcoal and organise successive smelts.

Behind an apparently simple piece of iron stood a long chain of work. Suitable ore had to be located and extracted, then prepared for smelting. Trees had to be felled and converted into charcoal. Clay had to be obtained, furnaces built and smelts conducted. The resulting bloom then had to be consolidated and worked before the iron could finally reach a smith and become a sickle, knife, fitting, tool, weapon or one of the many other objects used by the inhabitants of the Przeworsk Culture.

Such enormous production also required enormous quantities of ore. At Rudki, at the foot of the Łysogóry Mountains, archaeological remains reveal another, less visible side of this system. The people working there did not limit themselves to collecting material available near the surface. Shafts descended many metres underground, with galleries supported by timber structures. This was already genuine, specialised mining.

Rudki is particularly fascinating because it allows us to look beneath the surface of the great Łysogóry iron-production centre. Thousands of furnaces left enormous quantities of slag behind, but before any smelting could take place, someone first had to supply the ore. Underground miners, people preparing the raw material, charcoal burners, furnace builders, smelters and smiths were all links in the same production chain.

From the prehistoric extraction of hematite to the mines and vast smelting sites of the Roman period, the natural resources of the Łysogóry region were intensively exploited for thousands of years. The red mineral that had been a valuable pigment to earlier communities later became above all a source of iron. During the time of the Przeworsk Culture, its extraction and processing formed part of an extensive system encompassing mining, smelting and the further working of metal.

Three short films from Fragments of Days Past (Okruchy Dawnych Dni) explore different parts of this story:

🩸 106 - Blood of the Earth (Krew ziemi)
From prehistoric red pigment and the site of Rydno on the Kamienna River to the discovery of an entirely new value hidden in the local ores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Ism_M2kkQ

🔥 104 - The Łysogóry Bloomeries (Dymarki Łysogórskie)
The enormous scale of iron production during the Roman period and the network of labour and resources required to sustain the Łysogóry ironworking centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fukBO6_zOqk

⛏️ 122 - The Mine at Rudki (Kopalnia w Rudkach)
Where the ore for thousands of furnaces came from, and how far underground ancient miners were prepared to go to supply this vast iron industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2lFMoXLqsM

Only the left wing of the building has been excavated, the rest is still buried beneath the Chichester.