Friday, December 29, 2006

Interview: Italy's Antiquities Prosecutor Fiorilli

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Italy's antiquities prosecutor, Maurizio Fiorilli, has become the darling of the media in the past year helping to persuade the American...

Top 10 Discoveries of 2006

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How do you know it's been an extraordinary year in archaeology? When the discovery of the earliest Maya writing and a 2,500-year-old sar...

Boat provides historical insight

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A Bronze Age logboat which had lain unseen in the River Tay for 3,000 years is being studied by archaeologists. It is hoped the find will yi...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Medieval watercourse unearthed

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Workmen preparing the site of new public toilets have unearthed a 600-year-old sandstone watercourse, believed to have been an important fea...

Sutton amateur archaeologists close in on their ultimate goal

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THE lives of the bronze age people who settled, worked and traded in East Cambridgeshire are shrouded in mystery. But a dedicated band of vo...

A Roman statue worth $ 15 million found in an olive depot

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A statue belonging to the Roman era was found in an olive depot located in Gemlik, Bursa. Police have raided an olive depot after being noti...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Plan to move Viking ships meets opposition

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The University of Oslo has decided to move three grand Viking ships, probably by truck and barge, to a new museum across town, despite dire ...

EXCAVATING TELEVISION

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Location: Worldwide Length: 10 min. In this personal-voice and very witty short film by University of Southern California student Amy ...

Shattered clues for solving Greek island's riddle

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Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea, Keros is a tiny rocky dump inhabited by a single goatherd. But the barren i...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Plan to move Viking ships raises dire predictions

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The University of Oslo has decided to move three grand Viking ships, probably by truck and barge, to a new museum across town despite dire c...

Huge wind farm may threat Hebridean archaeology

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The company behind the UK's largest onshore wind farm project, proposed for the Hebridean island of Lewis (Outer Hebrides, Scotland), ha...

Avebury tourist office to close in 2007

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Kennet District Council is to close its tourist office at its World Heritage site at Avebury (Wiltshire, England). Despite the ancient stone...

Rome's ancient treasures inspire a new generation

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ROME: Of all the old sayings about the Eternal City at least one remains simply true — dig a deep hole almost anywhere here, and you'll ...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Heathrow: Iron Age roundhouse (photo)

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Terminal 5, Heathrow, has been one of the biggest construction projects in the world. Excavations by Framework Archaeology, in advance of th...

Wooden bowl from a Bronze Age waterhole (Photo)

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Terminal 5, Heathrow, has been one of the biggest construction projects in the world. Excavations by Framework Archaeology, in advance of th...

Stonehenge ceremonies start early

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Some had turned up in flowing robes while others were wearing lovingly-crafted winter solstice wreaths decorated with berries and ivy. The p...

4800-Year-Old Artificial Eyeball (Photos)

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Archaeologists in Burnt City announced unprecedented discovery of an artificial eyeball, dated to 4800 years ago, in this historic site. Ann...

Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate

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A few years ago, an international team of researchers went to the middle of the Pacific Ocean and drilled down five kilometers below sea lev...

HYMS researchers focus on human evolution

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A Hull York Medical School (HYMS) researcher has played a key role in a study which has cast important new light on Neanderthals. Dr Markus ...

Newgrange: Photos of the winter solstice 2006

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Photos by Michael Fox. See the photos here...