A Thracian chariot was reportedly unearthed in a burial mound near the Bulgarian village of Karanovo. A 6,500-year-old Neolithic farming settlement has been found in central Greece during digging for a gas line. “We can’t provide an estimate yet on the settlement’s size, but it doesn’t seem to be very big,” said archaeologist Giorgos Toufexis.  […]

Roman-style wall paintings have been uncovered at the fortress of Herodium, thought to be the home and burial place of King Herod, the Jewish proxy ruler under Roman occupation during the first century B.C. “There has been no other discovery of this type of painting in the Middle East, as far as we know, until […]