Sunday, May 01, 2005

Romps leave castle in ruins

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SEX romps and drinking binges in the ruins of a medieval castle in Bridgend have led to it being closed to the public. The historic remains ...

Experts examine hidden treasures

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People are being invited to dig out their hidden treasures and take them along to museums and galleries across England for an expert opinion...

Ancient communal cooking places found in Limerick

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Ancient communal cooking places discovered during excavation work in Limerick (Ireland) may belong to the Bronze Age. Frank Coyne, managing ...

Tests to recreate Bronze Age smelting techniques

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Evidence for ancient metalworking is sparse, and now historians who recreated Bronze Age smelting techniques know why — the clues naturally ...

The Archaeological Drawings of Charles Frederick De Brocktorff

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In the early 1820s, Charles Fredrick de Brocktorff, a German artist, was commissioned to make a series of watercolours on the Maltese island...

Archaeology, metal-detecting and greenfield sites: Report on an innovative project

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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has today published a report about a community archaeology and metal-detecting project, carried out on a gree...
Saturday, April 30, 2005

Are we loving our heritage to death?

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Fake statues in Florence. A rope around Stonehenge. Is this the only way we'll get to see the world's great sights in the future? Ol...

Christie's withdraws ancient Iranian artifact from sale

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LONDON -- Christie's auction house said on Wednesday that it had withdrawn from sale a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from ancient Pers...

Soil search reveals Rose Theatre secrets

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New light is being shed on the Elizabethan Bankside theatregoing experience by a re-examination of evidence from an old excavation of the Ro...

Sponsors may be invited to pay for Acropolis works

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Government says project will take another 16 years, 70 million euros Dismayed by spiraling costs and a seemingly open-ended completion sched...

Video of Loughcrew Spring Equinox

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On the morning of March 23rd, Michael Fox was inside the chamber of Cairn T to witness the spring equinox sunrise illuminate the backstone. ...
Friday, April 29, 2005

Roman fort at Brougham

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Everyone who lived at the Roman fort at Brougham, Cumbria, was buried in a cemetery close by. Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishi...

Wieder-Aufbau und Marshall-Plan – Ausstellung im Technischen Museum Wien

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Wieder-Aufbau und Marshall-Plan – Ausstellung im Technischen Museum Wien noch bis zum 2. Oktober 2005 Das Jahr 2005 ist für Österreich in vi...

Waffen und Rüstung im Wandel der Zeit

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"Waffen und Rüstung im Wandel der Zeit" (von der Bronzezeit bis Spätantike) lautet das Thema der Tagung zu der der Lehrstuhl für k...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

Mycenaean port of Athens found?

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Archaeologists in the capital’s southern coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens’s first p...

Shippam site set to give up its secrets

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Archaeologists are poised for the biggest and most exciting Roman excavation ever carried out in Chichester city centre – after demolition p...

Hall project will dig deep into past

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ROYTON’S past is to be unearthed in a three-year community project based around excavations of Royton Hall. Royton Local History Society is ...

Study of ancient castle launched

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A THREE-year project to survey and celebrate one of the country's earliest castles at Clavering has been officially launched. A public m...

Former Stone uncovers new book

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A 68-year-old man signed books about archaeology in a Norwich bookshop today. But there were no jokes about old fossils in rock – because th...

New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins

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Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze R...