Friday, November 30, 2007

Olympic digs yield historic finds

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Valuable archeological finds have been unearthed on two Olympics 2012 sites. Pottery from the 4th Century and a Roman coin were found on the...

WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY TO EMBARK ON MARINE HERITAGE PROMOTION

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Wessex Archaeology is embarking on a voyage into the waters of marine heritage promotion in the South West. The new project, supported by £...

Visitors flock to crannog centre

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AS THEIR woven hazel gates have closed for the season, the Iron Age team at the Scottish Crannog Centre are celebrating a remarkable and hug...

Sick Rams Used as Ancient Bioweapons

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Infected rams and donkeys were the earliest bioweapons, according to a new study which dates the use of biological warfare back more than 3,...

Ancient Greenland mystery has a simple answer, it seems

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(AXcess News) QASSIARSUK, Greenland - A shipload of visitors arrived in the fjord overnight, so Ingibjorg Gisladottir dressed like a Viking ...

Historians hustle as flood threatens ancient town

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A large settlement dating back to the first century BC has been found in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. But since the archaeological...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A VIKING LANDSCAPE: THE MOSFELL ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT

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Location: Iceland Length: 16 min. This video describes the Mosfell Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary research project emplo...

KEN FINDS HIS MIDAS TOUCH IN THE FIELDS

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Fields of gold could be lacing the countryside after a second ancient coin was discovered. Ken Jacobs (60), chairman of the Scunthorpe Meta...

Ancient Roman road map unveiled

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The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures. The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is...

Roman burial site uncovered

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A ROMAN burial ground has been discovered on land in Staverton near Trowbridge. Over the past two months archaeologists have extracted the r...

Lupercale expert sceptical of 'Romulus, Remus' cave

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A LEADING Italian archaeologist said that the grotto whose discovery was announced this week in Rome is not the sacred cave linked to the my...

Gene study supports single main migration across Bering Strait

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Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the n...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Knights Templar to Seek Traces of Order's Members in Bulgaria

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The Knights Templar are to launch excavation works in the Danube town of Russe to find out traces of order's members, who have once pass...

Bear hunting altered genetics more than Ice Age isolation

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It was not the isolation of the Ice Age that determined the genetic distribution of bears, as has long been thought. This is shown by an int...

'Dramatic' ancient cemetery found

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A freelance archaeologist has uncovered what is thought to be the only known Anglo-Saxon royal burial site in the north of England. Spectacu...

Römisches Bauen in Hessen

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Baubeginn für zwei römische Häuser vor den Toren der Saalburg Planzeichnung der beiden römischen Streifenhäuser (Grafik: Römerkastell Saalbu...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Czech archaeologists find unique Virgin Mary statuette

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PRAGUE, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Czech archaeologists uncovered a unique eight centimeter-long ceramic statuette of Virgin Mary with Jesus from t...

Anglo-Saxon gold jewellery is uncovered at burial site

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a 1,400-year-old burial ground filled with gold jewellery and ancient artifacts at a secret location in the No...

Rome uncovers its founding moment

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Rome has revealed what its leading archeologist says is "one of the greatest discoveries ever made", a lost shrine dedicated to th...

What is the secret of the Pit of Bones?

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I'm standing on a bunch of boring hills, on the edge of the high and dusty Castilian plains. This is the kind of Spain that tourists avo...