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A virtual reality reconstruction company has made a staggering discovery in an ancient Spanish city, uncovering a 270-meter-long Roman circus that was once used for chariot racing.  The incredible site was found in Iruña-Veleia, what is now in the Álava province of the Basque Autonomous Community without the need for any excavation.  The project was supported by the Provincial Council of Álava and the Basque regional government in order to document the Roman circus while doing a systematic review of the surface of the site - which covers 620 acres. From:  Express Visit Website  https://www.weaversnest.org/  for more information on Archaeology and History.                                                                              ...

Field Museum scientist Luid Muro Ynoñán and a team of archaeologists have excavated the remains of a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre in coastal Peru. “It was amazing,” says Muro Ynoñán, a research scientist at the Negaunee Integrative Research Centre at the Field Museum in Chicago. “This discovery tells us about the early origins of religion in Peru. We still know very little about how and under which circumstances complex belief systems emerged in the Andes, and now we have evidence about some of the earliest religious spaces that people were creating in this part of the world.” Peru’s most famous site, Machu Picchu, was built by the Inca Empire around 600 years ago in the 15th century AD. This newly discovered temple predates this by 3,500 years. “We don’t know what these people called themselves, or how other people referred to them. All we know about them comes from what they created: their houses, temples, and funerary goods” said Ynoñán.           ...

Missing pieces of the Bromeswell Bucket have been unearthed at Sutton Hoo, by a team of researchers and volunteers from the National Trust, FAS Heritage, and Time Team.  Pieces of the Bromeswell Bucket were first uncovered during an excavation at Sutton Hoo in 1986. The copper-alloy vessel is thought to have been made in Antioch some 1,500 years ago. It is decorated with a North African hunting scene and a Greek inscription. The newly unearthed fragments were confirmed to be parts of the original find through X-ray fluorescence, which confirmed that all of the pieces were made of the same materials.                                               From: ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE Visit Website  https://www.weaversnest.org/  for more information on Archaeology and History.                  ...