A Turkish and German team has unearthed a 5,000-year-old Venus figurine and a stone seal at Çanakkale. “We also found stone axes, [and] well-processed and embellished pots and spindle-whorls, which were used for spinning wool,” said Rüstem Aslan of the University of Tubingen. French archaeologists have decided that a prehistoric site on an island in […]

Terry Herbert was out on a friend’s farmland in South Staffordshire, England, with his metal detector when he discovered the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found-1,500 gold and silver weapon fittings. “This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries. [It is] absolutely the […]