Thursday, April 30, 2009

The final collapse of Byzantium

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More than half of the Byzantine buildings in the Marmara region have been damaged, according to a report released yesterday by a volunteer g...

New archaeological park in Athens

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Culture Minister Antonis Samaras announced on Wednesday that work will soon begin on a new archaeological unification and 3.4-hectare archae...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Ancient medieval buildings found beneath Cathedral Square

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Archaeologists excavating beneath Cathedral Square in Peterborough have found the remains of ancient medieval buildings. One of the buildin...

Acropolis museum to open in June: minister

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The ultra-modern Acropolis museum, situated below the ancient landmark that defines the Greek capital Athens, will belatedly open in June, G...

Alan Vince

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Archaeologist who transformed the study of Anglo-Saxon and medieval ceramics Eschewing traditional art-historical approaches, Alan Vince, wh...

Archaeologists keen to trace origins of Roman skeleton

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A ROMAN skeleton which was found in Kingsholm is being investigated by archeologists who are keen to trace his origins. The male skeleton wa...

Archaeologists show off rare Roman find

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Archaeologists excavating a site in East London have made an "extremely rare and unprecedented" find -- a delicately detailed dish...

Roman glass dish found in grave

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A rare Roman millefiori dish has been unearthed by archaeologists from the grave of a wealthy Londoner. The dish, which has gone on display ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Church lot rock actually ancient runestone

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An archaeologist says a rock used to mark a parking lot at a church in Sweden is actually a 1,000-year-old runestone. Stockholm County Museu...

Crannog festival offers a taste of the past

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visitors flock to iron age settlement for food and drink event NETTLE soup, spit-roasted lamb and clay-baked fish were on the menu for hundr...

York Archaeological Trust wins charity challenge

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A CHALLENGE to see which York organisation could raise the most money for a national charity saw contenders gather at an award ceremony to w...

4,300 mediaeval coins unearthed at Carevi Kuli

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Total 4,300 mediaeval coins dating back to the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th centuries have been unearthed at the Ca...

Detector finds declared treasure

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FOUR finds by Island metal detector enthusiasts have been declared treasure. The most ornate was a post-medieval dress hook, found by Cass D...

No light at the end of the 'tunnel', confirms archaeologist

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HOPES that a discovery made by construction workers on a site in Dungannon could be proof of the existence of the legendary "secret tun...

Exhibition opening 1 May: “Sea Stallion from Glendalough – from dream to reality

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The entire exhibition area of the Viking Ship Museum will invite the public inside (and outside) to tell the story of the reconstruction of ...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Why do we have history and archaeology? In the light of our understanding of ‘deep time’ Daniel Lord Smail argues that it is high time that the two di

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Though obscure in other respects, 1936 was an important year for the philosophy of the human past. This was the year in which the Australian...

Kilns discovery could lead to a Romans rethink

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THE DISCOVERY of two Roman structures in Otford could lead to a revaluation of their time in Britain. The last two weeks of an archeological...

Mystery Of Horse Domestication Solved?

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Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Des...

Neandertals Babies Didn't Do the Twist

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Giving birth is more difficult--and dangerous--for modern humans than for any other primate. Not only do human mothers have to push out babi...

Controversial Hobbit Looks Tiny in Person

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The Hobbit looks even smaller in real life. A skeleton cast of tiny and controversial Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, went on publi...