Monday, May 28, 2007

Volunteers wanted for dig in England

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Keen historians are being invited to help a team of Exeter University archaeologists uncover secrets of an ancient Bronze Age site. The team...

The Southeast Asian Archaeology newsblog

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The Southeast Asian Archaeology newsblog was started in May 2006 to keep track of the archaeology news in the region. Archaeology is a relat...

Viking Longship to Sail Across North Sea

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ROSKILDE, Denmark (AP) - On the skipper's command, deckhands haul in tarred ropes to lower the flax sail. Oars splash into the water. Th...

Creationist museum brings dinosaurs on board Noah’s Ark

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A vegetarian Tyrannosaurus rex frolicked alongside human beings only a few thousand years ago in the Garden of Eden until Eve decided to mun...

Graveyard claimed to be Armenian belongs to Romans

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Yusuf Halaçoğlu, president of the Turkish Historical Society (TTK), has announced that a graveyard in Mardin’s Nusaybin district that had be...

Road plan fears for Dales heritage

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PLANS to build a stone track across scenic Yorkshire Dales moorland are being delayed because of fears they could endanger a unique archaeol...

Hügelgrab aus der Urnenfelderzeit

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Rund eine Woche dauerte eine archäologische Ausgrabung im Vorfeld einer Baumaßnahme in Wehrheim, Hochtaunuskreis, die vom Verein Archäologie...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Archaeology at Newcastle University

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We have added a link to the Archaeology at Newcastle University web site which has details of courses, staff, research interests, etc. You g...

TARA - Work Halted along Controversial Stretch of Motorway

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Today in the Tara Skryne Valley a number of environmental activists prevented machinery from exiting construction depots along a controversi...

After the fire, heritage chiefs dare to hope that a treasure can be rebuilt

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Investigators were last night combing through the blackened shell of the Cutty Sark to establish the scale of the damage caused by the fire ...

Police launch Cutty Sark arson investigation

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An appeal for help to save the Cutty Sark, one of the world's most important maritime treasures, was issued last night after the histori...

A tale of two clippers

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It could be fortuitous that the Clyde-built Cutty Sark went up in flames the week before The Carrick, the world's only other surviving t...

Archaeological find could shed light on Orkney's past

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Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be a subterranean Iron Age structure, known as a souterrain, in an Orkney field. The find was...

'History itself has been lost'

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Two hours after a fire ripped through the hull of the Cutty Sark, the smell of burning timber lingered on the morning air as fire crews cont...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Roman Woman Had Golden Smile

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The earliest known dental prosthesis from ancient Rome may not have been very functional, but it gave its wealthy wearer a million dollar sm...

Roman remains threaten metro

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A planned hi-tech driverless underground railway line set to bring desperately needed transport links to the historic heart of Rome has run ...

Getty Moves Closer to Returning an Ancient Statue to Italy

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The J. Paul Getty Museum inched a step closer to relinquishing ownership of one of its most prized artifacts, a 2,400-year-old statue of a g...

Herodes - geschickter Diplomat und Friedensfürst

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Es ist zwar Zufall, dass just wenige Tage nach der Entdeckung des vermutlichen Grabes von Herodes eine Publikation zu selbigem und seinen Be...

Die Antike kopiert

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Die Antike und was man dafür hielt, prägte entscheidend die Epoche des Klassizismus. Die Antikenbegeisterung jener Zeit ließ Keramikmanufakt...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Excavations to start in July in Ancient City of Zeugma

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Archaeological excavations will start on July 15th in the ancient city of Zeugma. Associate Prof. Kutalmis Gorkay of the Ankara University D...