From the Archives: A necropolis in northern France provides remarkable new evidence of the La Tène culture, enigmatic Celtic warriors who once dominated most of Iron Age Europe.
3,800-year-old beads excavated beneath Iraq’s ziggurat of Assur in 1914 are made of amber from the Baltic or North Sea regions, which would have been very rare in southwest Asia at the time.
Extremely well-preserved mosaics of a Roman villa discovered under a vineyard in Negrar, Italy. Photo by Comune di Negrar di Valpolicella
Gold ring with silver centre showing the goddess Athena and inscribed with her name, from Tillya Tepe/Afghanistan
