Archaeology in Europe News

AN EXCITING discovery of an enormous system of ancient tracks trodden by medieval man has been made on a Purbeck heath. Trackways probably i...

HUNDREDS of visitors saw how Roman history is being unearthed at a special open weekend in Caerleon. The Argus reported at the beginning of ...

In a cave 12,000 years ago, a group of people settled down to a dinner that has rarely been matched: 71 tortoises that had been roasted in t...

Television viewers in the United Kingdom will have the chance to watch two new history programmes that feature medieval England. The BBC wil...

Field Notes 2010: Week 1 The 2010 season is about to start! According to our current plan, we will investigate three areas. Two in the Cent...

The Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux Castle, which is taking place this weekend in the English county of East Sussex, is expected to draw i...

Interest in the Middle Ages seems to be stronger than ever – movies like Kingdom of Heaven and novels such as Pillars of the Earth draw mill...

Dry weeks in early summer have already made 2010 a vintage year for archaeology, English Heritage said yesterday. The conditions allowed hun...

SIGNS of ancient civilisations in North Yorkshire have been uncovered in amazing detail thanks to the dry early summer weather. Hundreds of ...

Archeologists have discovered a sacred spring in an ancient city in western Turkey. The head of the excavation team, Professor Ahmet Tirpan,...

Archaeologists have found a legendary 1,200-year-old gateway to the massive wall the Vikings built to defend themselves against their rivals...

"The previous field that we looked at was the core of a Medieval village,” says Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, reflecting with some affect...

The dig at Caistor St Edmund They have been excavating for just a week, but already members of an archaeological team at a Roman town on th...

New research reveals that the so-called crack troops of Rome were in fact guilty of crimes against fashion They have been the subject of inn...

Just after sunrise on a misty spring morning last year, my fellow acoustician at the University of Salford, Bruno Fazenda, and Rupert Till o...

A COUNTY archaeologist says plans to build ten homes on a medieval site in Teesdale should be refused because there hasn’t been an in-depth ...

A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrad...

Sprengungsarbeiten beim Steinbruch der Firma Jura Cement in Wildegg (Kanton Aargau) förderten in einem bisher nicht dafür bekannten Gebiet K...

For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found....

Greek archaeologists have claimed they have found the palace of Odysseus during excavations on the Ithaca island in the Ionian Sea. On Tuesd...