Study reveals that Pharaoh’s throat was cut during royal coup
Conspirators murdered Egyptian king Ramesses III by cutting his throat, concludes a study in the Christmas issue published on BMJ website today.
Staffordshire hoard site yields further 90 fragments
More gold and silver, including a gold and garnet cross, an eagle-shaped mount, and what could be a helmet cheek piece, have been churned up by ploughing in Staffordshire in the same field which three years ago yielded one of the most spectacular Anglo Saxon hauls.
Research finds crisis in Syria has Mesopotamian precedent
Research carried out at the University of Sheffield has revealed intriguing parallels between modern day and Bronze-Age Syria as the Mesopotamian region underwent urban decline, government collapse, and drought.
Search for Rare Mesolithic Campsite at Goldsborough
Archaeologists are investigating a possible Mesolithic campsite in the North York Moors National Park.
Heroic Age campsite location discovered near summit of Antarctic volcano
A century after members of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition climbed Mount Erebus, the University of Cambridge’s Professor Clive Oppenheimer has located their highest campsite.
Dead guts spill history of extinct microbes
Extinct microbes in fecal samples from archaeological sites across the world resemble those found in present-day rural African communities more than they resemble the microbes found in the gut of cosmopolitan US adults, according to research published December 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Cecil Lewis and colleagues from the University of Oklahoma.
Restoration of Roman tunnels gives a slave’s eye view of Caracalla baths
Tourists will see 'maniacal Roman perfection and incredible hydraulic technology' in labyrinth under Rome's Caracalla baths
Roman Settlement and Possible Prehistoric Site Uncovered in Northern Italy
Over the summer a team of faculty and students from University of Kentucky discovered evidence of not just one lost community, but two in northern Italy. Using their archaeological expertise and modern technology, the team collected data that indicates the existence of a Roman settlement and below that, a possible prehistoric site.
Stanford researchers find clues to the Baltic Crusades in animal bones, horses and the extinct aurochs
A multidisciplinary project seeks to understand the Eastern Baltic Crusades through the lens of ecology. Horses, for example, aided the Christians in battle, while the castles the Crusaders built decimated forests.
First images of laser scan of Chinese tombs
The first laser scanned images of China’s Eastern Qing Tombs captured by a team of experts from Scotland have been revealed.
New light on the Nazca Lines
The first findings of the most detailed study yet by two British archaeologists into the Nazca Lines – enigmatic drawings created between 2,100 and 1,300 years ago in the Peruvian desert – have been published in the latest issue of the journal Antiquity.
Archaeology in Logar Province-Mes Aynak
UNESCO’s representative in Afghanistan, Paolo Fontani visited the ancient Buddhist site of Mes Aynak in Logar, 40 Km southeast of Kabul. He was accompanied by his culture team, Brendan Cassar and Sara Noshadi and representatives from the Ministry of Information and Culture of Afghanistan.
Gallic aristocratic establishment of a Gallo-Roman villa and several medieval buildings.
In 2010 an Inrap team excavated a 3.5 hectare site in Bassing, in the Moselle department. This research was curated by the State (Drac Lorraine) in advance of the construction of the East-European high speed train line by the Réseau Ferré de France.
The first harbour of ancient Rome eventually found
Archaeologists have unearthed the great ancient monuments of Ostia, but the location of the harbour which supplied Rome with wheat remained to be discovered.
When Homo sapiens hit upon the power of art
A staggering collection of ice age artefacts from museums across Europe will showcase the explosion of technical and imaginative skill that experts say marked the human race's discovery of art
