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Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry
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Archaeologists discover lost language
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Cromwell – The siege of Clonmel
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Achtung! Spitfires
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Roman Same-Sex, Slaves and Lex Scantinia
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Ancient network of rivers and lakes found in ...
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Research on Ancient Ballgame Reveals More about Early ...
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Search for ancient monuments on the Fehmarnbelt seabed
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Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of ...
UNESCO Director-General appeals for concerted action to prevent ...
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Wadi Abu Subeira, Egypt: Palaeolithic rock art on ...
In 2007 one of the most important recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt were made in Wadi (Chor) Abu Subeira near ...
Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone
A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, ...
Ancient Egyptian cotton unveils secrets of domesticated crop ...
Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that ...
Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today’s ...
Unprecedented study relies on more than 1,500 years of tree-ring data and hundreds of years of fire-scar records gathered from ...
Archaeologists excavate Iowa’s history to reveal the past
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New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient ...
Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their ...
Redefining archaeological research
Gently cradling a 5,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from Ur (modern day Iraq), Andrew Nelson wishes he could peel back the ...
RAF Dakota crash victims buried after 60 years
British Army and RAF personnel killed in a plane crash in the Malaysian jungle in 1950 have been buried with ...
New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian ...
First radiocarbon dates for unusual jar and log coffin interments on exposed ledges Researchers from the University of Otago in ...
The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han ...
In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and ...
What’s in a surname? New study explores what ...
What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society? That is the question being answered ...
Sulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks
Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of ...
The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands ...
The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French ...
Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence ...
Italian merchants funded England’s discovery of North America
Evidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the ...
Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed
Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not ...
Archaeologists discover lost language
Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, ...
Hebrew University archaeologist finds the first evidence of ...
Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, the Yigal Yadin Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...
Ancient network of rivers and lakes found in ...
Satellite images have revealed that a network of ancient rivers once coursed their way through the sand of the Arabian ...
HMS St Albans honours Arctic heroes 70 years ...
HMS St Albans has spent five days in Iceland to pay her respects to those mariners who took part in ...
Vandals damage Roman stonework at Scarborough castle
Night time attack risks damage to sensitive archaeology dating back more than 2,500 years
How stone age man invented the art of ...
New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain
Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry
New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence ...
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Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed
Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not ...Asia
RAF Dakota crash victims buried after 60 years
British Army and RAF personnel killed in a plane crash in the Malaysian jungle in 1950 have been buried with ...Australasia
A step towards solving a maritime mystery
Students from Flinders University believe they have discovered the exact location of a Scottish sailing ship which sank in waters ...Africa
UNESCO Director-General appeals for concerted action to prevent loss or destruction of Timbuktu’s documentary heritage
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HMS St Albans honours Arctic heroes 70 years on
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Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today’s megafires are truly unusual
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Vandals damage Roman stonework at Scarborough castle
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Archaeologists excavate Iowa’s history to reveal the past
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The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus
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Cromwell – The siege of Clonmel
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