Archaeology

How did people living in the Bronze Age manage their finances before money became widespread? Researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Rome have discovered that bronze scrap found in hoards in Europe circulated as a currency.

Archaeologists conducting excavations near the town of Biskupiec in Poland have discovered a silver treasure hoard from the 9th century AD.

Archaeologists in Denmark have found the remains of a Viking elite individual lost for over 100 years.

Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology, of the Russian Academy of Sciences have identified the royal tombs of the Pereslavl princes Dmitry Alexandrovich and Ivan Dmitrievich, the descendants of Alexander Nevsky, the legendary Rus’ prince, and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Archeologists have learned a lot about our ancestors by rummaging through their garbage piles, which contain evidence of their diet and population levels as the local flora and fauna changed over time.

Over 1000 large rectangular monuments known as mustatils have been documented during a survey of North-western Arabia, that archaeologists suggest may represent the earliest known widespread tradition of monument building across a wide area.

At first glance, it might seem that archaeology and ecology don’t have much in common. One unearths the ancient human past; the other studies the interactions of living organisms.

Archaeologists from the Administration for Cultural Development have excavated a large treasure deposit of Bronze Age artefacts in the forests near the town of Alingsås in Sweden.

The discovery of ancient kumara pits just north of Dunedin dating back to the 15th century have shone a light on how scientific evidence can complement mātauranga Maori around how and where the taonga were stored hundreds of years ago.

Archaeologists conducting research in the former altépetl of Tlacochcalco, located in the present-day town of Tlalmanalco, Mexico, have discovered the base of a pyramidal structure.

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of stone tools in a goldmine where Homo erectus would have inhabited 700,000 years ago in the eastern part of the Sahara Desert, 70 km east of the modern city of Atbara in Sudan.

A metal detectorist has found an arsenal of weapons from a Knight, that may have fought in the Battle of Grunwald.