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Archaeology

Dig you believe it: archaeologist excavates massive ancient town he discovered as a teenager

The floor pan of a house dating back some 7,000 years. Marcin Dziewanowski

A town covering seven hectares and dating back to 5,100 BC unearthed in the North West.

Polish archaeologists discover Neolithic settlement in Jordan

Archaeologists from Kraków's Jagiellonian University have discovered a settlement dating back to the Neolithic period in northern Jordan.

The oldest human remains in Poland discovered

The oldest human remains in Poland are over 100,000 years old. They are bones from a hand belonging to a young Neanderthal child, which were digested by a large bird. The remains were found in Jaskinia Ciemna (cave), in southern Poland.

Digging deep: Cooking pots reveal how ancient megacity died out because of climate change

The pioneering work is the first time shards from cooking pots have been used to obtain data and it opens the door to new research using ceramic to reconstruct the climate in ancient societies.

Archaeologists discover early Middle Ages cemetery in Lublin

Archaeologists have discovered traces of an early Middle Ages cemetery during excavation work close to Old Town in Lublin, eastern Poland.

Neolithic village discovered in Poland

The settlement’s founders belonged to a group which inhabited current-day southern Scandinavia, Germany and Poland from 4,300 to 2,800 BC.

Polish archaeologists discover medieval graves in Sicily

The over 800-year-old burial sites were discovered by Polish archaeologists during excavations next to the medieval church of San Michele del Golfo near Palermo in Sicily.

Polish archaeologist discovers hundreds of cave paintings in Tanzania

Hundreds of cave paintings, which may be several thousand years old, were discovered by Maciej Grzelczyk, a Polish archaeologist, on the territory of the Swaga Swaga reserve in Tanzania.

Polish archeologists to research last Mayan bastion in Guatemala

Relics of the last capital of the pre-Columbian Maya civilisation, Tayasal, situated on lake Peten Itza - the last bastion of defence against the European conquerors - are to be researched by Polish underwater archeologists.

Romans roamed the Kujawy region of Poland: new discoveries

An unprecedented discovery has for the first time placed the Roman legions in the Polish region of Kujawy, much further outside the Roman Empire’s borders than had previously been assumed.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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