Forty silver coins  have been found in the forum at the Odeon site in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. The Roman coins date to the third century and bear images of emperors from the Severan dynasty. More than 600 coins have been excavated from the site so far, in addition to a marble eagle that […]

Using declassified spy satellite images from the 1960s, Jason Ur of Harvard University is mapping the ancient sites and landscapes in the area around Irbil, the capital of Kurdish northern Iraq. So far he’s identified 1,200 potential sites. “This type of work is not about excavating a specific area, but about trying to come up […]