Sunday, June 05, 2005

Rows over protection of Tara

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Eighteen months after An Bord Pleanála’s decision, and almost nine months after Meath Co Council and the NRA finally revealed the extent of ...

Bronze Age burial site found in Germany

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The skeletal remain of a Bronze Age lord, along with his retainers have been discovered in a burial mound at the most celebrated of archeolo...

British Bomb Detonated Near Pompeii Ruins

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Bomb disposal experts today detonated a 250lb World War II bomb unearthed near the ruins of the ancient Roman town of Pompeii, a police offi...

Celtic Coins

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Archaeologists have uncovered 17 ancient Celtic coins in a field in the south of the Netherlands, the first hoard of such coins found in the...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

New life for Elizabeth I's 'lost' garden 430 years on

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An elaborate "lost" garden created in 1575 for Queen Elizabeth I is to be restored after archaeologists stumbled across its ruins....

Roman conquerors had woolly socks

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The sartorial elegance of the Italians has been shattered, with news that woolly socks helped their ancestors' conquest of northern Engl...

Italy indicts Getty curator

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ROME --In a long-running legal battle with broad implications for museum collections worldwide, a senior curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum...

'Grand vision' sought for castle

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The people of Nottingham are being offered the chance to have their say over the future of the city's most famous landmark. Design consu...

Mining hope for Bronze Age site

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Mining for copper and zinc could return to Anglesey's Parys Mountain mine after an absence of almost 100 years. As a result of recent in...

ROMAN FIND BYPASS HITCH

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AN UNDISCOVERED stretch of Hadrian’s Wall has been unearthed by archaeologists on the route of the £30 million Carlisle Northern Development...
Friday, May 20, 2005

Britain's Lost Colosseum - Timewatch

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9:00pm - 9:50pm BBC2 VIDEO Plus+: 470001 Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described Britain's Lost Colosseum Wherever the Romans conquered,...

Roman soldiers help new fight against windfarm

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ANCIENT Roman legions who once marched through South Yorkshire could soon be playing a part in a new battle—this time to halt a green scheme...

Amphith-eater fans enjoyed fast-food too

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FOOTBALL wouldn't be the same without the obligatory burger vans and stalls selling cheap scarves outside the ground. But the latest fin...

German Scientists: Europe's Oldest Script Found in Bulgaria

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Ancient tablets found in South Bulgaria are written in the oldest European script found ever, German scientists say. The tablets, unearthed ...

Archaeologist tells of digs in Central Asia

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Victor Sariyiannidis has spent his life searching for traces of Greeks Findings from the royal Bactrian graves. A statuette of a goat (right...

Panonian gladiators

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THE success of the recent movie Gladiator demonstrates continuing public interest in the ancient past. Hungary has some of the richest remai...

Earliest European 31,000 years old

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Fossilised human bones found in the Czech Republic have been dated back to some 31,000 years, which scientists say confirms them as the olde...

Research fuels debate over die-off of prehistoric Neanderthals

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For decades, scientists have argued over the disappearance of Neanderthals from prehistoric Europe about 30,000 years ago. Did they die from...

Cypriots took wine to the world

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The ancient Greeks took wine to the masses, the Romans to the world. But it was the innovation of Cypriots that showed them how, say archaeo...
Thursday, May 19, 2005

Origin of new British Museum exhibit looks a bit wobbly

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Visitors to the British Museum unfamiliar with the date of the wheel's invention may have been puzzled by a primitive painting in the Ro...