Archaeological excavations at the historic Battle of Manzikert battlefield (modern-day Malazgirt in Turkey), where the Seljuks defeated the Byzantine Empire in 1071, opening the gates of Anatolia, continue to reveal important discoveries. The project, which began in 2020 with support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is advancing into its second phase in 2024. […]
Battlefields
Posted inBronze Age Archaeology
The Oldest Battlefield in Europe: First Evidence of Interregional Conflict with Organized Armies in the Continent in Bronze Age
The analysis of Bronze Age arrowheads found in the Tollense Valley, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, has revealed that some of them were not produced locally. This finding has brought to light the oldest evidence of a large-scale interregional conflict in Europe, suggesting that an army from the south participated in what is […]
Posted inClassical Archaeology
The Romans Surrounded Masada with Towers and a Wall Over 4 Kilometers Long in Just Two Weeks
A recent archaeological study on the Roman siege system at Masada, published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology, reveals new and important findings about this historic conflict of the 1st century CE. An international team of researchers, led by Hai Ashkenazi from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Goethe University Frankfurt, has used cutting-edge technology to […]
Posted inModern Era
How the battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars were cleaned up
Year 1807, at the end of the bloody battle of Eylau: the French soldier Jean Baptiste de Marbot wakes up, after several hours unconscious, covered in blood and on a cart, surrounded by corpses. He is completely naked and only keeps his hat because all his clothes and belongings have been taken away because he […]
