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According to a Newsweek report, a Roman situla, or bucket, containing cremated human remains has been unearthed in southern Poland. The vessel was discovered in a cemetery belonging to the Przeworsk culture that was in use between the first century B.C. and the second century A.D. “The situla has survived almost intact, with elaborately cast dolphin-shaped handle attachments,” said Joanna Zagórska-Telega of Jagiellonian University. “Three legs in the shape of stylized dolphins have also survived at the base,” she added. Pieces of such vessels, thought to have been made in northern Italy or the eastern Alps, have been uncovered all...

The Lublin Provincial Monuments Conservator has announced the discovery of an assemblage of "Barbarian" weaponry in the State Forests in the Hrubieszów region of Poland. According to the announcement, the assemblage dates to the Roman period and may be associated with the Przeworsk culture, an Iron Age people that emerged in the upper Oder and Vistula basins during the 3rd century BC, and continued to inhabit central and southern Poland until the 5th century AD.The culture's decline in the late 5th century coincides with the invasion of the Huns and the social crisis that occurred as a result of the...

Village from the Roman period, dating from 3rd-4th century AD, has been discovered in Lipnica Dolna near Jasło (Subcarpathia). Among approx. one thousand archaeological objects there is a large pottery kiln, in which ceramics were fired. "The kiln is two meters in length and the same in width. It stands on a small tip in the Wisłoka valley. Its location shows that the wind blowing from the river was used to maintain the temperature during the firing cycle" - said Tomasz Leszczyński, archaeologist from the Subcarpathian Museum in Krosno. He added that "such kilns are extremely rare in the Carpathians"....