Archaeology Magazine

TAMPA, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the University of South Florida, a mass grave containing the remains of victims of the Plague of Justinian (A.D. 541–750) has been identified at the site of Jerash in northern Jordan by a team of researche...

HYDERABAD, INDIA—The Times of India reports that researchers led by epigrapher K. Muniratnam Reddy from the Archaeological Survey of India (...

SUFFOLK, ENGLAND—The East Anglian Daily Times reports that archaeologists from Cotswold Archaeology uncovered traces of a cremation pyre in the East of England, near the coast of the North Sea. The blackened soil and pi...

WARSAW, POLAND—Researchers led by Elena Klenina and Andrzej B. Biernacki of Adam Mickiewicz University and their colleagues identified intestinal parasites in residues taken from four chamber pots recovered from two archaeological sites in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior, which is located in what is now Bulgaria, according to a

STRASBOURG, FRANCE—According to a statement released by Frontiers, the protective coatings on a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck found off the coast of Croatia were made of pine tar, or pitch, and a mixture of pine tar and beeswax. Beeswax was added to heated tar ...