Friday, February 27, 2009

Scanning Artifacts Up To Two Tons With Astounding Precision

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A new facility opening later this year at the Diamond synchrotron is set to revolutionise world heritage science. A new research platform so...

'Oldest English words' identified

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Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say. Reading University researchers claim "I", "we"...

Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus

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PARIS – Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains — aggravat...

Stone Age finds delay Carlisle bypass again

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Carlisle's proposed western bypass faces yet another delay after Stone Age artefacts were found on the route. A potentially significant ...

Underground passageways discovered in Valletta

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Preliminary archaeological studies in St George's Square, Valletta have uncovered an undocumented network of underground passageways, wh...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Biodiversity Hotspot Enabled Neanderthals To Survive Longer In South East Of Spain

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Over 14,000 years ago during the last Pleistocene Ice Age, when a large part of the European continent was covered in ice and snow, Neandert...

Acropolis workers strike shuts down monument

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Tourists who came to Athens on Thursday to see the Acropolis — one of Europe's most famous cultural sites — found themselves met at the ...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Hi-tech research shows Neolithic axes have travelled from the Alps

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IT’S a mystery that could shed light on life in Hampshire 6,000 years ago. Four Stone Age axes, dating from a time when people had stopped h...

Face-to-face with a brutal past

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YORK’s Viking Festival reaches a spectacular finale tonight. The five-day sell-out festival is the largest event of its kind in the UK, attr...

Trawlers are 'destroying history on the seabed'

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Britain's love of seafood is helping to destroy the nation's maritime heritage. That is the stark warning of marine archaeologists w...

Bulgarian-British archeological team start working on Lower Danube

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The Bulgarian government has granted permission to a Bulgarian-British archeological team to carry out research along the Lower Danube River...

Lost and found: palace of Robert the Bruce

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Historians and archaeologists claim to have found the remains of King Robert the Bruce's palace, lost for more than 700 years. The disco...

Farbiges Mittelalter?! - Tagung des Mediävistenverbandes an der Universität Bamberg

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Der Mediävistenverband hält sein 13. Symposium vom 1. bis zum 5. März an der Universität Bamberg ab Farbig - das ist wohl das letzte Attribu...
Friday, February 20, 2009

High-tech tests allow anthropologists to track ancient hominids across the landscape

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Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and ...

Hopes dashed as Google Ocean image of 'lost city of Atlantis' proves to be nothing of the sort

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It was the picture that seemed to show that the mythical lost city of Atlantis, more than 9000 years after it sank beneath the ocean's w...

Computer technology plus archaeology equals enhanced knowledge of the past

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Our knowledge of life in the Mediterranean region between 3500 and 2000 years ago has been enhanced by a combination of archaeological and c...

Well-known baths awash in hidden artifacts, rare finds

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Excavations begin anew on first-century site Excavations at an ancient Roman villa and bath complex in the outskirts of Rome have unearthed ...

Remains of the day

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Three years ago, archaeologists at Bristol University embarked on a unique research project: the excavation of a 1991 Ford Transit van. Afte...

Orte des Geschehens

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Vom 26. Februar bis zum 1. März 2009 wird in Heidelberg das 1. Altertumswissenschaftliche Studierendenkolloquium "orte des geschehens...

Der größte Schatz ist unsere Geschichte

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Museum in der Kaiserpfalz zeigt Funde aus der Sammlung Lütkemeyer Der Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) zeigt in seinem Museum in der...