Friday, February 29, 2008

ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO DRILL IN BEXLEY FOR EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT OCCUPATION

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Archaeologists from Durham University will be returning to a London borough site where a 19th century historian once found flint tools and a...

Shroud of Turin Gets High-Def Scrutiny

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The Turin shroud, the 14- by 4-foot linen long believed to have been wrapped around Jesus' body after the crucifixion, has entered the d...

'100 000 Years of Sex' opens in Germany

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Trier, Germany - Erotic carvings and excavated Roman artefacts connected to sex will go on display on Saturday in Germany's best-preserv...

Exhibition explores history of Lakes landscape

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TWELVE thousand years of Lake District human history is about to be revealed in a new exhibition showing how the landscape developed. “Unloc...

PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Viking Women Wore "Sexy" Outfits

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Call it the Viking version of a low-cut top. A modern reconstruction of a Norse outfit (worn above by textile researcher Annika Larsson of U...

VIDEO: Inquisition Docs Made Public

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The Vatican has opened to the public Inquisition documents from the Roman Catholic Church's efforts—beginning in medieval times—to root ...

Historic heritage vs tourism profits debated at panel

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The decision by the Four Seasons Hotel to enlarge its existing building over an archaeological site in the historic Sultanahmet neighborhood...

Free Archaeological Publications!

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Wessex Archaeology is pleased to offer many of its archaeological publications free (bar P&P) to the general public. We have reports on ...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Medieval wall painting discovered

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Fragments of an ancient wall painting dating back to medieval times have been discovered during restoration work at 13th century Stuston chu...

Grave yard unearthed at former Chester police HQ

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A MEDIEVAL grave yard with more than a hundred skeletons has been unearthed on the multimillion pound Police HQ site. The “fascinating” and ...

Fashion counted for some Vikings, researcher says

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Vikings were much snappier dressers than thought, according to new evidence unearthed by a Swedish researcher. The men were especially vain ...

Cannibalism May Have Wiped Out Neanderthals

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A Neanderthal-eat-Neanderthal world may have spread a mad cow-like disease that weakened and reduced populations of the large Eurasian human...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Archaeological treasures found in Roscrea

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A 'beautiful' Bronze Age axe and a number of ancient burial grounds have been unearthed near Roscrea during the construction of the ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Vikings did not dress the way we thought

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Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously t...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Ancient toy or whistle found at Pyrgos

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A SMALL masterpiece of coroplastic Early Bronze Age Cyprus (3500- 2000 BC), believed to be a water whistle or a toy, was found during the ex...

The Magerius Mosaic

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How a Roman amphitheatre really worked "Roll up! Roll up! Roll Up! There will be a magnificent spectacle at the amphitheatre today, and...

Antarctic may hold the future of archaeology

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It is a truism that archaeology begins yesterday, and now with only the archaeology of the future to plan for, the discipline has been expan...

Neolithic artefacts discovered in church

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PLANNED repairs to the central heating of a church have uncovered remains suggesting it may have been used as a place of worship in prehisto...

Fresh tests on Shroud of Turin

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The Oxford laboratory that declared the Turin Shroud to be a medieval fake 20 years ago is investigating claims that its findings were wrong...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

BRUNEL PUMP HOUSE FACES DEMOLITION

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Heritage campaigners are up in arms over plans to demolish an "atmospheric" pumping house designed by the great 19th-century engi...