Saturday, March 28, 2009

Abbey reveals itys ancient secrets

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It was once home to Augustinian canons, but the ravages of time have left barely any trace of their existence. Masked by trailing ivy and an...

Archaeological worries over barrage plan

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IRREPLACEABLE treasures dating back millions of years will be lost if plans to build the Severn Barrage go ahead, experts have warned. Creat...

Boulder could have been a calendar – 5000 years ago

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AN amateur archaeologist believes a giant boulder on a hill overlooking Loch Ness was used as a guide for crop sowing and harvesting by resi...

Excavation in Turkey set to rewrite history of Iron Age

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Japanese researchers digging in Turkey have pushed back the start of the Iron Age, until now presumed to have begun around 1500 B.C., with t...

Ironware piece unearthed from Turkey found to be oldest steel

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A piece of ironware excavated from a Turkish archaeological site is about 4,000 years old, making it the world's oldest steel, Japanese ...

Italian dig uncovers "oldest" temple in Cyprus

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An Italian archaeologist says she has discovered what is believed to be the oldest site of religious worship in Cyprus, a temple which is ab...

Archaeologists call for a dig under a caravan business

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THE potential for prehistoric and Roman archaeological finds under a caravan showroom in St Georges could scupper plans to build nine homes ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

More on Robin Hood Manuscript Discovery

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Last week we reported on a discovery made by Dr. Julian Luxford of the University of St. Andrews that a passage exists in a 15th century man...

Majority support excavations under city church

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Politicians look set to approve excavation work under city landmark church for the new Metro City Ring A majority in parliament are ready to...

James will lose his beard and hair for charity

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A CITY archaeologist is shaving off his beard and hair for a hospice caring for seriously ill children. James Dinn, Worcester City Council a...

Salisbury Cathedral gets the Time Team treatment - 26/03/2009

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A new exhibition at Salisbury Cathedral will display artefacts uncovered during a recent archaeological excavation by Channel 4’s Time Team....

Germany's stone age cannibalism

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Tens of thousands of ancient human bones found in Germany suggest that victims were not killed just to satisfy hunger, writes Pierre Le Hir ...

5,000-year-old home of capital's first farmers discovered

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THE remains of a hilltop home believed to be about 5,000 years old have been discovered on the outskirts of Edinburgh, The Scotsman can reve...

Mud yields secrets of Newport's medieval ship

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IT looks like gloop from the River Usk. But as Mike Buckingham finds out, where there's muck there's an historical treasure trove. ...

Roman wall escapes archaeologists' trowels

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MEDIEVAL recyclers may have helped themselves to parts of Gloucester's Roman wall to build their own homes. That's one of the more u...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Worthing metal detector enthusiast finds rare penny worth £2,000

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AFTER years of searching, the penny finally dropped for a Worthing metal detectorist when he found a coin worth £2,000. Clive Nobbs discover...

Bronze Age sauna discovered on site earmarked for park and ride scheme

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A Bronze Age sauna and one of the oldest prehistoric roundhouses in the UK have been unearthed on a site earmarked for a park and ride schem...

Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue

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A Greek fisherman must have been expecting a monster of a catch when he brought up his nets in the Aegean Sea last week. Instead, Greek auth...

Medieval murder mystery at Kilkenny Castle

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A HUMAN skull believed to be that of a murder victim dating back to medieval times has been unearthed embedded in the walls of the moat of K...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?

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ON TV Secrets of the Druids airs Sunday, March 22, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Details >> Recent evidence tha...