Heritage
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8.8KArt and science students at Kingston University London blend cutting-edge technology with creative techniques in research project that delves into the secrets of the Thames Tunnel
London’s iconic Thames Tunnel – the first tunnel ever built under a river – has become the setting for a project that...
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10.0KOver 1000 sites given listed protection in 2016
From Britain’s oldest water chute ride in Northamptonshire, Crimean War gunboat sheds and a rare clapper bridge to a recently exposed shipwreck...
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8.8KScientists still don’t understand the Anthropocene – and they’re going about it the wrong way
The Anthropocene Epoch – a new geological era in which humans are the dominant force for change – is real and started...
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16.6KDevelopment of new techniques makes it possible to date Australian Aboriginal rock art
A new technique, developed at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science, has made it possible to produce some of the first reliable radiocarbon...
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9.7KSeparate but unequal: the sad fate of Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia
There is systemic discrimination against Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia. This does not come from a racist administrator somewhere who hates Aboriginal...
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11.0KThe coldest decade of the millennium? How the cold 1430s led to famine and disease
While searching through historical archives to find out more about the 15th-century climate of what is now Belgium, northern France, Luxembourg, and...
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8.6KBefore race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies
As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave,...
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11.3KScans locate historic secret room in walls of Gunpowder plot house
Concealed inside a key building in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, researchers from The University of Nottingham have used the latest scanning...
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31.1K10 Ruined Castles Across England
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in England and grew in sophistication, leading to a sharp increase in...
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14.9KLessons from ancient Athens: the art of exiling your enemies
Throwing one’s political opponent in jail has a long history to it, especially in countries where democratic principles struggle to take hold....
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12.6KHow the archaeological review behind the Dakota Access Pipeline went wrong
This summer, Tim Mentz Sr. took to YouTube to tell the world about the destruction of his cultural heritage. A former tribal...
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15.6KHow to climb the social ladder in ancient Rome
It is easy to imagine ancient Rome as a society where the emperors, senators and other nobles sat on top of an...
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9.5KZwammerdam boats harbour ‘wealth of knowledge’
Leiden University is participating in a project to reassemble Roman vessels from between 80 - 200 AD. The 'Zwammerdam ships' are already...
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8.7KParker’s Revenge Battle from the Opening Day of the American Revolution
The Friends of Minute Man National Park today released the final archaeology report on the Parker's Revenge battle – the April 19,...
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8.2KNew letters by WW1 Muslim soldiers disclosed
On Armistice Day, a literature expert at Birmingham City University has disclosed previously unreported letters from the early 1900s by some of...
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14.6KDigital imagery reveals secrets of 800-year-old ‘royal’ book
A lavishly illustrated medieval book which once belonged to King Henry VIII was not created for the royal elite but was actually...
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11.2KHeritageDaily reaches a milestone in publishing
HeritageDaily has reached a new milestone today with this posting being our 3000th article, so we thought we’d have a change from...
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7.1KHow Gothic buildings got associated with Halloween and the supernatural
If you want foreboding old buildings that dark lords and werewolves are bound to frequent, look no further than Britain’s enviable Gothic...
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5.7KDefending the heritage of St Kilda
Conservation charity the National Trust for Scotland has welcomed plans for a ‘sympathetic and sustainable’ redevelopment of military facilities on St Kilda,...
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6.7KEarly Pacific seafarers likely latched onto El Nino and other climate patterns
The colonization of far-flung Remote Oceania some 3,400 years ago was one of the most ambitious and expansive population dispersals in human...
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12.6KGhoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
Professor Sarah Tarlow from the University of Leicester discusses the enduring popularity of the gibbet in Halloween paraphernalia
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6.2KThe story of how livestock made its way to southern Africa
Much of South Africa has good grazing for livestock. And sheep, goats and cattle have played an important role in the history...
