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First enclousers from Bronze Age found in Serbia

Researchers from University College Dublin discovered enclouseres in northern part of Serbia which is located on the so called "pannonian plain". Sites had been identified using aircraft reconassaince and google earth and dated with tools found there. This discovery is important because it had been previously thought that agriculture expanded much later into the Panonian plain becouse it was isolated from the rest by mountains. Source: https://www.archaeology.org/news/11899-231116-serbia-bronze-age

New tomb discovered in Egypt

Researchers from the University of Czech Republic made excavations in the Abusir necropolis where people living in the time of 26th and 27th dynasty are buried. They say it belonged to a royal scribe named Djehutyemnakht. The walls of chamber in which he is buried are decorated with various pictures and textes. Most of them are hymns to some egyptian gods like ritual offerings or spells preventig buried from snakes which were considered dangerous. All of this was made in order to ensure if buried man will smoothly enter into afterlife. Surce: https://www.archaeology.org/news/11885-231108-abusir-necropolis-tomb

Roman road found in Scotland

Murray Crook who is Stirling Council archaelogist led the dig in the city of Stirling, in Scotland. They found and eroded surface of the road after digging inside of the garden of the XVIIth century cottage. Road was dated back 2000 years and it means it was built by the Romans. Archaelogists think it was built by legion of Julius Agricola, an officer that ruled army of province Britannia. It was propably used during invasions on Scotland led by Rome. It also shows that roman presence in Scotland was more significant than previously thought and it could reming Scottish people of importance of Rome in their history. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0d83q4ng1o