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CANADA - Montréal - Les ossements humains retrouvés en 2019 sur le site de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph sont ceux de deux femmes et d’un enfant enterrés à cet endroit il y a plus de 600 ans. Il ne fait aucun doute que ce sont des sépultures car nous avons retrouvé les squelettes dans des positions typiques : fœtale pour les adultes et en flexion totale pour l’enfant », explique la bioarchéologue Isabelle Coupal. Au terme des fouilles menées à l’été 2020, elle a documenté chaque os des défunts – deux femmes âgées de 17 à 25 ans et un enfant dont le sexe et l’âge n’a pas pu être précisé – et déterminé une foule d’indices sur leur mode de vie. L’observation des dents, par exemple, a permis de confirmer qu’ils consommaient du maïs. En plus des ossements, on a exhumé des tessons de poterie et trois perles provenant d’un bracelet porté par l’enfant. La datation a été évaluée grâce à l’analyse d’un morceau de charbon trouvé près des sépultures. C'est une découverte importante car elle témoigne d'une période qui intrigue les historiens et anthropologues depuis longtemps. Vers 1400, on sait que les Iroquoïens du Saint-Laurent formaient une population bien établie. Et pourtant ils semblent être disparus dans le siècle suivant. Il s’agit en réalité d’un des plus vieux débats de l’archéologie québécoise et de la préhistoire nord-américaine : qu’est-il advenu des Iroquoïens du Saint-Laurent? « Premiers habitants de la montagne », selon le site officiel du Mont-Royal, « ils cultivent maïs, courges et haricots sur ses flancs, dans de grands champs fertiles. Leur village se nomme Hochelaga, rapporte l’explorateur français Jacques Cartier qui le visite en 1535. Toutefois, lorsque Samuel de Champlain revient sur l’île en 1603, il ne retrouve pas cette communauté; son emplacement exact fait d’ailleurs toujours l’objet d’hypothèses ».
ISRAEL – 
Jerusalem - Les archéologues de l’Autorité Israélienne des Antiquités ont mis au jour ce qui pourrait être un bâtiment du conseil municipal vieux de 2 000 ans, à quelques centaines de mètres de son équivalent moderne, au cours de fouilles continues sous la Vieille Ville de Jérusalem. Construite vers l’an 20 de l’ère commune, la structure de l’époque romaine se trouvait à l’écart de la route principale menant au Mont du Temple et était utilisée comme triclinium, ou salle à manger, pour les notables de la société qui se rendaient au temple, selon le communiqué de l’IAA. Initialement construit à avec une fontaine ornée et des chapiteaux corinthiens décoratifs, ce bâtiment remarquable a subi une série de modifications structurelles au cours de ses 50 années d’utilisation avant la destruction du Second Temple en 70 de notre ère . ’au cours de ses 50 années d’occupation, la grande structure publique a été séparée en trois espaces différents, la fontaine a été mise hors service et ce qui semble être un bain rituel ou un mikveh a été ajouté, juste avant la destruction de Jérusalem.
https://fr.timesofisrael.com/un-hotel-de-ville-vieux-de-2-000-ans-decouvert-pres-du-mur-occidental/
ANGLETERRE – 
Hillingdon - Hundreds of rare coins from the Iron Age have been uncovered by archaeologists working on the HS2 route. One excavator described the hoard of small coins, which were found in Hillingdon west London and date back to the first century BC, as a “once-in-a-lifetime find”. Bearing the side profile of Greek god Apollo on one side and a charging bull on the other, their design is based on coins struck in the French city of Marseille more than 2,000 years ago. The coins, which are around 3cm in diameter, date back to when the Romans began establishing themselves in Britain and creating Londinium, and they circulated in Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Europe . Historians believe they were used as an offering to the gods or to mark the boundary of a property, as bartering rather than currency was the main form of exchanging goods and services at the time. HS2 has also uncovered 11,000-year-old stone tools and artefacts in London, which suggested that people were living on the banks of the river during the Middle Stone Age.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/hs2-london-hillingdon-duncan-wilson-skanska-b945635.html
IRAK – 
Tell al-Duhaila- Archaeologists in Iraq have uncovered what they believe are the remnants of a 4,000-year-old settlement that rose from the ashes of the Babylonian empire. The discovered city is an urban settlement in Tell al-Duhaila, located on the banks of a watercourse. The team uncovered numerous artifacts—including a rusted arrowhead, traces of tandoor stoves and clay camel statues dating back to the early Iron Age. They also found the remains of a temple wall about seven feet tall and 13 feet wide and an ancient port where both river and sea vessels would have anchored. The city could be the capital of a state founded following the political collapse at the end of the ancient Babylonian era, around the middle of the second millennium BC. The site appears to offer evidence of the earliest agricultural use of silt in Mesopotamia, predating the emergence of the Sumerian civilization.
CROATIE – 
Zakotarac - A very rare bronze Greek-Illyrian war helmet, used in Greece during the time of the Greco-Persian Wars, was recently discovered in a rock-cut tomb in Dalmatia. The spectacular find was made recently during the exploration of the cave tomb in Zakotarac, located on the Pelješac peninsula, in southern Dalmatia, Croatia. The tomb was for a Greek warrior buried approximately three centuries later, however, in the 4th century BC. The rare find, accompanied by many other valuable objects from the era, was discovered within a previously-unknown rock-cut tomb along a hillside near Gradina.This particular style of helmet, which became the iconic head covering of Greek warriors over the centuries, was first used by the Etruscans and Scythians. It later became known as the Illyrian helmet. Part of the warrior’s skull appears to be visible from the openings of the helmet, although earth has over the millennia made its way into where the rest of his head would be. Adding to the importance of the find, archaeologists also discovered a treasure trove of ancient weapons, including spears and knives, in the same Croatian grave. At least two other people had been buried along with the warrior, including a woman, who was found wearing a bronze bracelet. The spectacular find was made when archaeologists were working on restoring a damaged burial mound. The rectangular space of the mound measured approximately 3 x 2 meters (9.84 x 6.56 feet). The body of the warrior had been laid to rest in a west-east direction in the tomb, but unfortunately, his bones were found in a “rather poor condition,” according to the archaeologists. The tomb dates back to earlier than the nearby colony on Korčula, which is known to have been founded in the late 4th or early 3rd century BC
https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/16/ancient-greek-helmet-found-in-stone-burial-chamber-in-croatia/
ITALIE – 
Rome - Archaeologists have discovered a rare stone delineating the city limits of ancient Rome that dates from the age of Emperor Claudius in 49 A.D. and was found during excavations for a new sewage system. It was found June 17 during excavations for a rerouted sewer under the recently restored mausoleum of Emperor Augustus, right off the central Via del Corso in Rome’s historic center. In ancient Rome, the area of the pomerium was a consecrated piece of land along the city walls, where it was forbidden to farm, live or build and through which it was forbidden to enter with weapons.“The founding act of the city of Rome starts from the realization of this ‘pomerium,''' he said of the consecrated area. The stone features an inscription that allowed archaeologists to date it to Claudius and the expansion of the pomerium in 49 A.D., which established Rome's new city limits.
https://www.theolympian.com/entertainment/celebrities/article252832973.html#storylink=mainstage