Archaeology

The Palace Museum in Beijing has confirmed the discovery of relics from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) that were buried underground in the heart of the city for more than 600 years.

Archaeologists are using bones unearthed from the 2,000-year-old tomb of Haihunhou, the Marquis of Haihun, to conduct DNA analysis.

HMS Hampshire struck a mine at 19.40 on the 5th June, 1916, while transporting Lord Kitchener, the secretary of State for War to Archangel in northern Russia for a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II. She sank within twenty minutes, with the loss of 737 lives, including Lord Kitchener. Only 12 of the company survived.

A previously unknown subterranean structure, either a souterrain or a ‘well’ dating from the Iron Age has been unearthed near the manse of Harray in West Mainland, Orkney.

The Egyptian-German Archaeological Mission to Matariya has discovered new evidence for a sanctuary of Nektanebo I (380-363 BC) in the temple precinct of Heliopolis.

“Conflict archaeology in a galaxy far far away.” In 2013 I wrote a short article exploring the archaeology of Star Wars, discussing the extant remains of ‘Tatooine’ in Tunisia as being archaeologically valid - ‘culturally significant imaginings’, an extension of the more traditional archaeology of ‘culturally significant happenings’- other realities as much as other times. At the time, the movie saga was finished...

Thanks to the analysis of fossil pollen and charcoal remains, a team of scientists has been able to reconstruct the evolution of the vegetation from Gran Canaria between 4,500 and 1,500 years ago.

The Rök Runestone, erected in the late 800s in the Swedish province of Östergötland, is the world's most well-known runestone.

Centuries before modern countries such as Dubai and China started building islands, native peoples in southwest Florida known as the Calusa were piling shells into massive heaps to construct their own water-bound towns.

The pre-Columbian settlements in Amazonia were not limited to the vicinities of rivers and lakes.

Software developed at Bournemouth University has unearthed new information about Laetoli’s lost tracks

Archaeologists from MOLA have broken ground for the detailed excavation of the Curtain Theatre, one of Shakespeare’s least historically documented playhouses, in London’s Shoreditch. The dig was officially launched by Ed Vaizey MP, the Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, today – 400 years almost to the day since Shakespeare’s death.

The discovery of dairy fats on ancient pottery may indicate dairying high in the Alps occurred as early as the Iron Age over 3000 years ago, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Francesco Carrer from the University of York, UK, and colleagues.

A rare amulet more than 3,200 years old bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler Thutmose III, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty (who reigned from 1479 – 1425 BC) has been discovered at the Temple Mount Sifting Project located in Jerusalem’s Tzurim Valley National Park within earth discarded from the Temple Mount.

A significant assemblage of medieval pottery, metal, bone, antler, leather and wooden artefacts recovered from rich midden deposits, floor surfaces, occupation deposits, structural timbers, pits and hearths sheds new light upon life in the heart of the medieval burgh of Perth.