Archaeology

Wargaming is pleased to announce that the company will be funding an exhibition at the Royal Air Force Museum set to explore the background of the Museum's groundbreaking Dornier 17 recovery project. The exhibition will take place in both the London and Cosford locations of the Museum.

University of Leicester Archaeological Services finds 1,700-year-old cemetery with unusual practice of Christian and pagan burials.

University of Leicester researchers have released a wealth of evidence that led to their conclusion in the discovery of Richard III. This includes DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating and skeletal examination data.

Researchers have solved the riddle of how one of Africa’s greatest civilisations survived a catastrophic drought which wiped out other famous dynasties.

Dig team to investigate 600-year old stone coffin and to learn more about Church that housed a King.

The ancient Maya civilization of Mesoamerica may have developed its unique culture and architecture via contact with many other groups—not just exclusive contact with the Olmec people or on its own, without any outside influences, as researchers have debated. According to a new study, the formal plazas and pyramids at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, probably arose from broad cultural exchanges that took place across southern Mesoamerica from about 1,000 to 700 BCE.

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falköping, Sweden.

Archaeologists unearth new information on origins of Maya civilization

Archaeologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the biggest groups of Iron Age metal artefacts to be found in the region- in addition to finding dice and gaming pieces.

The Government of Margaret Thatcher played a crucial, if unwitting, role in the development of modern UK Archaeology. Yet as former UK Prime Minister is buried in London her Conservative heirs in the governing coalition are busy undoing her Government's system for protecting archaeology and the environment in the planning process. Andy Brockman reflects on this unexpected legacy.

University of Leicester geneticist Dr Turi King found a match between DNA from the skeleton and two direct descendents of Richard III on the female line.

Richard III may have gone through very painful treatments for his spinal deformity, according to University of Leicester researcher

In January 2013 the World's media watched as a crack team of historians, archaeologists and geophysicists assembled by global game company Wargaming.net, set out to solve the mystery of the lost squadron of Spitfires which, according to aviation enthusiast David Cundall, were buried by Allied Forces at airfields in Burma at the end of the Second World War.

The most supported traditional hypothesis points out that the earliest well-established human culture in the North American continent were the Clovis, a population of hunters who arrived about 13,000 years before present from North-East Asia through the Bering Strait, and scattered over the continent.

The Roman Empires was one of the largest, longest lasting and most important states in human history.