Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Eggstinct - But Scientists Hope For DNA Clues

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Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a huge fossilised elephant bi...

Historic Furness sites under threat

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PARTS of Walney are being washed away at a rate of a 100m every 30 years and archaeological remains stretching back 3,000 years are at risk ...

Byzantium: Splendour and Everyday Life - Exhibition in Bonn, Germany

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The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn is presenting more than 600 magnificent and historically meaningful e...

Staffordshire Hoard returning to Birmingham with unseen items

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UNSEEN relics that form part of the Staffordshire Hoard will be added to a display returning to Birmingham this Saturday. Helmet fragments w...

New centre for replica Iron Age attraction

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A new eco-friendly visitors centre is set to be built at a replica Iron Age farm. Butser Ancient Farm, in Chalton Lane, Chalton, has seen it...

DNA from fossilised eggshells could help reconstruct lives of extinct birds

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Ancient DNA has been extracted from the fossilised eggshells of birds for the first time, and will eventually yield clues about their physio...

Digging into Shakespeare's later life at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon

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A ground-breaking investigation into Shakespeare’s later life is due to start in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26 March 2010, as archaeologists pre...

DNA of extinct birds extracted from ancient eggshell

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Researchers have found that eggshells of extinct bird species are a rich source of preserved DNA. An international team isolated the delicat...

Kerala's possible Mediterranean links unearthed by researchers

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Did the Mediterranean region of megalithic age have any links with the state of Kerala in southern India? A wide range of megalithic burials...

Ancient Norse colonies hit bad climate times

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Temperatures in Iceland plummeted soon after settlers arrived New research reveals just how bad an idea it was to colonize Greenland and Ice...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Saxon pottery at Wisbech playground site

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Archaeologists have unearthed Saxon pottery at the site of a new adventure playground in Cambridgeshire. Further excavations will now take p...

Pipeline Engineers Find Historic Shipwrecks in Baltic Sea

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Engineers surveying the Baltic Sea for a pipeline project have discovered several historic shipwrecks on the seabed, including an ancient Vi...

Life of Vikings seen through soil

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A scientist and a composer are working together to explore a thousand years of human history through soil samples. The pair have built an in...

Dozen shipwrecks found off the coast of Sweden

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A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks, some of them believed to be up to 1,000 years old, were discovered in the Baltic Sea during a probe o...

Finding Clovis

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Location: South Carolina Length: 27 min This is an archaeological adventure at the Topper Site in Allendale County, South Carolina, famous...

Neolithic remains delay bypass

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THE CONSTRUCTION of a major dual-carriageway to bypass Ballymena, Co Antrim, is being delayed after the discovery of neolithic remains at th...

5,000-year-old Westray wife tours Scotland

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A Neolithic carving found in the Orkney Islands last year is to go on tour around Scotland. The 5,000-year-old figurine, known as the Westra...

Trove of shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea

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A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks have been found on the bed of the Baltic Sea; some of them are thought to up to 1,000 years old, the S...

Archaeologist demands survey of bridge route

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An archaeologist is demanding a survey be carried out on the planned route for a third Don crossing in Aberdeen over fears that historical s...

Oldest Settlement Known to Man Identified

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Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest continually habited village in the history of humanity. Czech diggers have found remains of an...