Sunday, October 31, 2010

How 5000-yr-old Neolithic men painted their homes

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London, Oct 30 : A new research has revealed that our ancestors from 5,000 years ago painted their homes to brighten up their places too. Th...

New study finds headless skeletons in ancient cemetery were Romans

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Eighty headless skeletons unearthed between 2004 and 2005 from an ancient English cemetery in the city of York or the then Roman capital Ebo...

Scientists issue call to action for archaeological sites threatened by rising seas

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global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Armenian archeologists: 5,900-year-old skirt found

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An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a skirt that could be 5,900-year-old. Pavel Avetisian, the head of the Instit...

Roman villa set to close to the public

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A HISTORIC tourist attraction looks set to close to the public after council chiefs announced cuts and job losses within the museum service....

Headless Romans in England Came From "Exotic" Locales?

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An ancient English cemetery filled with headless skeletons holds proof that the victims lost their heads a long way from home, archaeologist...

Reiche Bestattungen aus der Jungsteinzeit und der Bronzezeit

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Auf einer Länge von ca. 150 km wird die neue Bundesstraße B6n den niedersächsischen Harz mit der Bundesautobahn A9 im Osten von Sachsen-Anha...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Just ask Mummy: Cancer the least of their worries

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Just imagine: a world without cancer. It's a tantalizing thought, recently floated by researchers at Manchester University in the UK. Th...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Heat brought instant death in Pompeii: Scientists

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The people of Pompeii who died when Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago were killed by intense heat rather than suffocation, according t...

Turkey's underwater cultural heritage in danger, says expert

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Turkey’s underwater cultural heritage faces a number of threats, especially from sport divers, an archaeology expert says during a meeting i...

Archaeology: 8000-year-old skeleton found in Bulgaria

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Bulgarian archaeologists, led by lecturer Boris Borissov from the university of Veliko Turnovo, unearthed a skeleton estimated at 8000 years...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Stonehenge bosses 'regret' photography ban (update)

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English Heritage has issued a statement to photographers after it sent an email that banned commercial use of images of historic tourist att...

Archeology digs at Roman sites

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A new project has been launched this week to explore East Oxford’s Roman and medieval archaeological sites. Led by the University’s Departme...

York Archaeological Trust find Roman vase at Hungate dig in York

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A RARE glimpse into the world of Roman funeral rituals is on offer to visitors to DIG in York. Archaeologists from York Archaeological Trust...

Restoring 'lost city' of medieval Spain

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It has been 100 years since excavations started on the Madinat Al Zahra, the magnificent 10th century palace city near Cordoba in southern S...

Archaelogists may have discovered 12th century royal court in Aber

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Abergwyngregyn may have discovered one of the most iconic royal buildings of the 12th century. Up to 20 archaeologists are...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History

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One of the stars of the Oriental Institute’s new show, “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond,” is a...

Archaeologists find early Neolithic evidence

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Cornell archaeologists are helping to rewrite the early prehistory of human civilization on Cyprus, with evidence that hunter-gatherers bega...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Five things archaeologists can learn from Dragon's Den

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It's not surprising that archaeologists are, on the whole, pretty poor business people: they don't want to be business people. But ...

Archeologists aim to shed light on Sherwood Forest ancient monument

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ARCHEOLOGISTS are bidding to shed light on one of Notts' most mysterious ancient monuments. Three years ago the Forestry Commission reve...