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2,800-year-old bone flute and Early Bronze Age idol uncovered at Troy

First Hellenistic mosaic floor in 78 years of excavations discovered at Kültepe-Kanesh

2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

Ice Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years

Roman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu

Devil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row

4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta

80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads

University of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis

Neolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani

Dahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons

Nature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia

Pine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck

About 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik

Theban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump

2,800-year-old bone flute and Early Bronze Age idol uncovered at Troy

First Hellenistic mosaic floor in 78 years of excavations discovered at Kültepe-Kanesh

2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

Ice Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years

Roman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu

Devil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row

4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta

80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads

University of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis

Neolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani

Dahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons

Nature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia

Pine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck

About 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik

Theban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump

2,800-year-old bone flute and Early Bronze Age idol uncovered at Troy

First Hellenistic mosaic floor in 78 years of excavations discovered at Kültepe-KaneshAll news

Chalukya Timeline

500 CE – 800 CE · 3 sites

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Sandstone cave temples in the cliff above Agastya Lake at Badami, Karnataka

Badami Cave Temples

540 CE – 700 CE

Four sandstone cave temples cut above Agastya Lake at Badami (ancient Vatapi), the Early Chalukya capital in Karnataka. Cave 3 carries a 578 CE inscription of Mangalesha.

Apsidal Durga temple at Aihole, Karnataka, with peristyle and shikhara

Aihole

500 CE – 800 CE

An Early Chalukya temple town on the Malaprabha in Karnataka, with more than a hundred shrines including the apsidal Durga temple — a field school for 6th–8th century Deccan architecture.

Early Chalukya temples at Pattadakal on the Malaprabha River, Karnataka

Pattadakal

650 CE – 760 CE

An Early Chalukya coronation and temple ensemble on the Malaprabha River in Karnataka, mixing northern nagara and southern dravida towers, inscribed by UNESCO in 1987.