British Museum launches The BP Exhibition Vikings: life and legend
British Museum will open the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery with a major exhibition on the Vikings
Seashells inspire new way to preserve bones for archaeologists
Scientific advance inspired by seashells that can better preserve valuable remains.
Calcium absorption not the cause of evolution of milk digestion in Europeans
Ancient DNA from early Iberian farmers
Discovery of a major church with mosaic from the Byzantine period
The discovery was made during a salvage excavation as part of development.
Over 920,000 archaeological finds found by the public now recorded
Celebrating the public contribution to archaeology,
Remains in Winchester could be King Alfred the Great (Or son Edward the Elder)
A pelvis bone exhumed in an excavation at Hyde Abbey in Winchester may belong to King Afred the Great
Anthropology Professor Receives Prestigious Grant to Enhance Research Project
Grant to enhance his Maya Research Program
Giant Sarcophagus leads archaeologists to Tomb of a Previously Unknown Pharaoh
Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Woseribre Senebkay
Evidence of earliest steel use in Britain discovered
Archaeologists have identified examples of the earliest use of steel in the British Isles
Researchers target sea level rise to save years of archaeological evidence
Prehistoric shell mounds at risk of washing away as the sea level rise.
New evidence of “Nordic grog” discovered in Scandinavia
A blazing fire was not the only thing to keep Bronze & Iron Age Scandinavians warm through long cold winters.
First farmers and stockbreeders painted with the same pigments that their hunters ancestors
Levantine art practiced by the nomadic hunters-gatherers
Neolithic mural may depict ancient eruption
Çatalhöyük mural may have overlapped with an eruption in Turkey
Ancient Cambodian city’s intensive land use led to extensive environmental impacts
Soil erosion may reveal ancient water management in Mahendraparvata
2 million years ago, human relative ‘Nutcracker Man’ lived on tiger nuts
Ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts.
