Archaeology
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Gold rush as Hoard goes on display
The Potteries museum and art gallery has scooped a £40,000 heritage grant to stage its largest ever exhibition on the world’s biggest...
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York research centre investigates the origins of humans
A new research centre encompassing experts ranging from historians to biomolecular chemists has been established by the University of York and the...
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Taxi Driver Becomes First Egypt Mummy In 3000 Years!!
A FORMER taxi driver has become the first person for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs....
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Archaeologists find blade production earlier than originally thought
researchers at Tel Aviv University have uncovered evidence which shows that "modern" blade production was also an element of Amudian industry during...
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Threatened Syrian citadel gives up secrets in midst of conflict
An archaeologist working in Syria has solved the mystery of why one of Islam’s earliest fortresses dropped out of the historical record...
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Early Irish Christian Community Had Links To The Mediterranean
In 2010, a woman discovered what has proved to be a 7th century brooch bearing the Greek symbol for Christ which has...
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Shackleton’s Antarctica 100-year-old Whisky Brought To Life!
Painstakingly recreated from the original bottles which lay buried for a century next to Ernest Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica, an exact replica...
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Part I: Evolution of Structural Distinctiveness
The development of behavioural complexity and intricate judgment were once only thought to be characteristics possessed by modern humans. However, the archaeological...
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An Ancient Granite Cross Returned To Dartmoor
An ancient granite cross, discovered last year by a group of walkers on Dartmoor, has been returned to the location of its...
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Continents influenced human migration, spread of technology
Researchers at Brown University and Stanford University have pieced together ancient human migration in North and South America. Writing in the American...
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Seaside Fortress Was a Final Stronghold of Early Islamic Power
Ancient harbor at Yavneh-Yam was used for hostage exchange, says TAU researcher Archaeologists have long known that Yavneh-Yam, an archaeological site between...
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Part 3 : A lost Roman legion….in China?
I welcome you back to this journey where we attempt to follow in the footsteps of the armoured shadows of the Roman...
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Part 2 : A lost Roman legion….in China?
In the lastest instalment, we set the scene and introduced the players. Now it is time for us to delve ever deeper...
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Part 1 : A lost Roman legion….in China?
The year was 53 BC, Caesar was enforcing civilisation in Gaul and the politics of empire danced their dangerous dance around the...
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Campaigners plead with Whittam Smith to save Cumbrian castle
Protests and petitions head for the former Indie editor, now First Church Estates Commissioner, about the Bishop of Carlisle's delectable former home.
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Periwinkle Hill – A “Proposed Motte and Bailey Castle”
Periwinkle Hill is situated between the villages of Reed and Barkway, in Hertfordshire, overlooking the old London to East Anglia road, with...
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In Tripoli’s museum of antiquity only Gaddafi is lost in revolution
Libyan antiquities museum escaped ravages of revolution, but former dictator becomes an artifact of modern history
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Fossil discovery could be our oldest human ancestor
A series of studies carried out on newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa Cave site in South Africa, where the fossils...
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Who’s Your Daddy?
Following on from the previous article, The First Boat People, we know that Sahul, the original name of Australia during prehistoric times,...
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Discovery Cast Light On Early Roman Activity In The Stroud Valley
Excavations have revealed evidence of some of the earliest Roman activity currently known in the Stroud Valleys dating from the mid to...
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Roman Remains Found at Charles Street, Dorchester
Wessex Archaeology has found important Roman remains within the confines of the major Roman town of Durnovaria now modren day Dorchester
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Canada Reveals Outstanding New Underwater Images And Artefacts
Peter Kent, Minister of Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today updated the media on this summer’s two-phased Arctic archaeological surveys...
