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FRANCE – 
Rennes - Les squelettes pourraient dater des XIIIe ou XIVe siècles, et donc être plus récents que les premières sépultures découvertes mi-janvier 2022 sous la place de la Mairie de Rennes, lors de fouilles préalables à la plantation d’arbres.« On les a découverts à l’angle sud-ouest de la place en début de semaine, confirme Dominique Pouille, archéologue ingénieur de recherches à l’Inrap Des « sépultures d’adultes et d’enfants, datant probablement de la fin du Moyen-Âge », soit du XIIIe, XIVe ou début du XVe siècle. Après « avoir été lavés, séchés et étudiés, des échantillons seront envoyés au labo pour une datation plus précise », détaille l’archéologue. Selon lui, « il n’est pas impossible que ces sépultures appartiennent au même cimetière », que les cinq premières découvertes mi-janvier, dans l’une des tranchées du haut de la place. Même si elles sont a priori plus anciennes, puisqu’estimées à la première partie du Moyen Âge (entre le VIe et le XIe siècle). Les historiens estiment en effet que l’église Saint-Pierre du marché aurait en effet pu se trouver sous l’actuel théâtre, ou sous la place. Ces récentes découvertes pourraient bien le confirmer. « Lorsque la parcelle de Sieur Barré (où l’on a trouvé les dernières sépultures) a été dégagée après le Grand incendie de 1720, u n procès-verbal rapporte qu’on avait trouvé à l’époque pas mal de restes de squelettes à cet endroit », confirme Gauthier Aubert, professeur d’Histoire à l’université Rennes 2 et co-directeur de Rennes 1720, l’incendie . Les archéologues de l’Inrap n’étaient donc pas les premiers sur le coup…
PALESTINE – 
Gaza - Bulldozers digging for an Egyptian-funded housing project in the Gaza Strip unearthed the ruins of a tomb dating back to the ancient Roman era, Hamas authorities said Monday. An independent archaeologist briefed on the issue said photos suggest the site was a cemetery dating back to the late Roman era to early Byzantine period 1,600 years ago.
TURQUIE – 
Smyrne - After the discovery of a historical latrine (a toilet or an even simpler facility used as a toilet within a sanitation system) used by artists in the theater section of the ancient city of Smyrna, located within the borders of the western city of Izmir, archaeologists recently unearthed a 2,000-year-old passage in the same section of the ancient city. The passage is 23 meters long (65 feet long) and built in an "L" shape. The 4-meter-wide passage, allowing the audience to reach the theater – which has a capacity of approximately 20,000 people – was discovered 6 to 7 meters below the houses that were demolished via expropriation. It was determined that the passage, called "vomitorium" by archaeologists, was built with the knowledge of arches and vaults to strengthen the rows of seats. Pointing out that the passage at the theater of Smyrna was built with arch and vault systems, Ersoy said: "The arch and vault systems were not used in Anatolia and the Mediterranean region before the Roman period, except for a few examples. We often come across such examples during the Roman period. We see that vault and arch systems can be used easily in the baths and other theater structures built in this period, and accordingly, very large and high structures can be built. These structures were also used for people to protect themselves from bad weather conditions and to take shelter."
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/digs-in-izmir-discover-2000-year-old-passage-in-ancient-theater/news
ITALIE – 
Velia - Helmets and weapons from the famed 6th-century BC naval Battle of Alalia, the first major sea battle in history where the Greeks scored a Pyrrhic victory over the Etruscans and their Carthaginian allies, have been found in a new dig at Velia near Paestum south of Naples. The walls and remains of the most archaic temple were found, dating back to the sixth century BC, with painted ceramics and a hoard of weapons including two helmets, one of them Etruscan and likely taken from their enemies at the Battle of Alalia in Corsica.
PAKISTAN – 
Barikot - Archaeologists have found one of the oldest known Buddhist temples in the city of Barikot, in the Swat region of Pakistan.This revealed the remains of an ancient Buddhist temple measuring up to three metres tall, built on an apsidal podium on which stands a cylindrical structure that houses a small stupa. On the temple’s front is a minor stupa and the podium of a monumental pillar or column, in addition to a series of vestibule rooms which used to lead to an entrance that opened onto a public courtyard overlooking an ancient road. The temple dates to roughly the second half of the 2nd century BC, but may be even older from the Maurya period in the 3rd century BC (yet to be confirmed through carbon-14 dating). Excavations also revealed that the monument was built on the remains of an earlier structure flanked by a small, archaic stupa which precedes the Indo-Greek period. This dates to around 150 BC during the reign of the Indo-Greek King Menander I or of one of his first successors, for which according to Indian Buddhist tradition Menander I converted to Buddhism. n the final days of the mission, the researchers found that parts of the Indo-Greek monument had been built on an even older structure whose strata included pottery materials and terracotta figurines which are likely to have been used in Barikot during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
ttps://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/01/archaeologists-find-ancient-2000-year-old-buddhist-temple/142647
EGYPTE – 
Athribis - Egyptologists excavating in the Ancient Egyptian city of Athribis, nearly 200 kilometres north of Luxor have recovered over 18,000 inscribed sherds known as ostraca. Around 80 percent of the pot sherds are inscribed in Demotic, the common administrative script in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods which developed from Hieratic after 600 BC. Among the second most common finds are ostraca with Greek script, but the team also came across inscriptions in Hieratic, hieroglyphic and – more rarely – Coptic and Arabic script. The contents of the ostraca vary from lists of various names to accounts of different foods and items of daily use. A surprisingly large number of sherds could be assigned to an ancient school, the research team said. “There are lists of months, numbers, arithmetic problems, grammar exercises and a ‘bird alphabet’ – each letter was assigned a bird whose name began with that letter.” A three-digit number of ostraca also contain writing exercises that the team classifies as punishment: The sherds are inscribed with the same one or two characters each time, both on the front and back. They also discovered pictorial ostraca. “These sherds show various figurative representations, including animals such as scorpions and swallows, humans, gods from the nearby temple, even geometric figures.”
ANGLETERRE – 
Colchester - Digs at the site in Lexden Road, Colchester, have uncovered the ancient remains of Roman buildings and a possible tower. The excavations have found a range of interesting artefacts including up to 18 Roman brick and tile built ovens and more than 50 Roman burials.A large quantity of items including pottery and glass vessels, jewellery and tools made from metals and animal bone have also been dug up. One of the most exciting discoveries has been a fragment of a cup decorated with the image of a racing chariot, which was likely to be a souvenir from a race day at Colchester’s Roman Circus, the only chariot racing arena in the country.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/19882584.artefacts-found-county-hospital-excavation/
EGYPTE - Nekhen - Également connu sous le nom de Hierakonpolis, qui signifie en grec « Cité du faucon », le site archéologique est aujourd’hui connu sous le nom de Kom el-Ahmar. En réalité, Nekhen est un site clé pour les historiens qui cherchent à comprendre comment est née la civilisation égyptienne dynastique. C’est le plus grand site égyptien prédynastique découvert à ce jour. Les ruines elles-mêmes remontent à une période comprise entre 4000 et 2890 av. Le site a fait l’objet de plus d’un siècle de recherches archéologiques, qui se poursuivent jusqu’à aujourd’hui avec l’expédition Hierakonpolis qui continue de mettre au jour de nouvelles découvertes. L’expédition interdisciplinaire Hierakonpolis a débuté en 1967 et se poursuit jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Jusqu’à présent, les archéologues ont mis au jour plusieurs aspects différents de cette ville antique, de l’architecture domestique aux monticules d’ordures, en passant par les centres religieux et cultuels, les cimetières, les tombes et un palais des premiers dynasties. Ils ont découvert des architectures industrielles telles que des brasseries et des ateliers de poterie et ont même mis au jour des preuves de l’existence d’un zoo ou d’une ménagerie, avec des restes de crocodiles, d’éléphants, de babouins, d’un léopard, d’hippopotames et autres, ainsi que des tombes d’animaux dans ou près des tombes des élites.Les différentes expéditions sur le site ont permis de découvrir divers artefacts tels que des statuettes en ivoire, des têtes de masse, des statues en pierre, des masques en céramique, des poteries, une figurine en lapis-lazuli, des statuettes en terre cuite, à mesure que les archéologues s’enfoncent dans les vestiges prédynastiques.
FRANCE – La Farlède - A La Farlède, une exploitation de production d'huile d'olive datant du Ier siècle après JC a été découverte. Des fouilles archéologiques préventives, obligatoires en cas de nouveau projet d'urbanisme, ont permis de révéler aux habitants un pan de l'histoire de la commune et de confirmer l'importance de la culture de l'olivier sur le territoire.