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Medieval medicine and prescriptions will be digitized and freely accessible to all

How did medieval physicians use pigeon feces, fox lungs or eel fat? This and much more will be revealed thanks to a new project by the University of Cambridge, which has launched the digitisation and preservation of 180 medieval medical manuscripts from its library collections. More than 8,000 medical prescriptions will be accessible to anyone via the internet. High-resolution scans of the manuscripts will be accompanied by transcripts of the texts with keyword search capabilities and detailed descriptions of the historical context.

Unprecedented find of 6,500 years of gold rings in a Neolithic grave

Near the city of Oradea in western Romania, a unique set has been discovered that is unparalleled in Europe. During the construction of a new A3 motorway link, workers came across the grave of a Copper Age woman. It contained two gold beads, 800 bone beads, a spiral copper bracelet and above all 169 gold rings.

Archaeologists recover unique ancient objects from Tuscan hot springs

San Casciano dei Bagni is one of Italy's top destinations with hot springs that have been visited for over 2,000 years. The present-day town is located just a few metres from the ancient spa complex. Archaeologists have discovered thousands of well-preserved artefacts here. They are revealing new insights into the interconnectedness of the cultures of the time with healing springs and religion.

Stolen Viking treasure bought and returned home

In 2015, detectorists George Powell and Layton Davies found a hoard of around 300 Saxon coins, jewellery and other valuables, probably deposited by the Vikings in the 10th century, in a field near Leominster.

New treasures of the Spanish galleon 366 years after the sinking

In 1656, the Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) was wrecked on the west side of Little Bahama Bank about 70 km off the coast. It was literally stuffed with treasure, which is why it was repeatedly plundered by various societies and wild expeditions over the following centuries. When another expedition went to the site recently, few imagined there was anything left on the seabed...

A detective found a treasure trove of bronze axes and spears

A set of twenty artefacts found by a metal detector near the village of Llanddeusant in Carmarthenshire dates from 1000 - 800 BC. It contains 20 artefacts - including three types of bronze axe, a broken spear, etc. It was declared a treasure late last month by Paul Bennett, chief coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.

Detectorists repeatedly find Roman gold coins, more to come in the field

The 2,000-year-old treasure was deposited before the Roman invasion of Britain. The coins have been ploughed up and moved from their original site near Norwich over the centuries, and have been found repeatedly by various detectorists in recent years. They were the finest coins of their day, and were even made into jewellery. Today they are very rare...

A unique 2000-year-old shrine has been found in the Netherlands

Remains of a 1st-century Roman sanctuary have been discovered in Herwen-Hemeling in the eastern Netherlands. It is the first of its kind in the area of the Lower Germanic Limes, the former border of the Germanic provinces of the Roman Empire. With its preserved altars, structures, statues and sacrificial pits, it is the most complete sanctuary in the whole of the Netherlands...

Gold prospectors discover a mammoth cub, the first in North America and only the second in the world

A perfectly preserved baby mammoth, including soft tissue or fur, was discovered in the Yukon goldfields south of Dawson City in northwestern Canada. It is the first complete mammoth calf ever found in North America, and only the second in the world after the Siberian discovery in May 2007...

13,000 unique 3,000-year-old artifacts discovered in China

At the 7 km2 archaeological site in Sanxingdui, the excavation of sacrificial pits is underway, in which a joint team of archaeologists from the Institute for theSichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Beijing and Sichuan Universities have uncovered nearly 13,000 amazing objects made of bronze, gold, jade and ivory. Many of the artefacts have no analogue in archaeology and are quite unique.

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