Monday, November 19, 2012

Water mains work unearths Roman cemetery in Somerset

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Several Roman human remains were discovered at Banwell in Somerset A Roman cemetery containing several human burials has been found du...

Were Prehistoric Statues Pornographic?

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The Venus of Hohle Fels Photograph by Gerbil/Wikimedia Commons. Our interpretations say more about modern sexism than lif...

Eastern valley shows off traces of Neolithic Age

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The Levent Valley is home to thousands of large and small caves carved by the human hand, according to officials. There are still 20 vil...

Stone age nomads settled down in Merseyside, flints and timber suggest

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Lunt Meadow is close to Formby beach, where scores of trails of ancient human and animal footprints have been discovered preserved in th...

Mesolithic man find could rewrite Stone Age history

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An archaeological find at Lunt Meadows in Sefton, Merseyside has unearthed evidence that Mesolithic man may have built settlements. ...

Der Neandertaler in uns

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Der Neandertaler in uns   (Deutschland, 2010, 52mn) ZDF Regie: Tamara Spitzing A video over recent research ...

Scottish dig unearths '10,000-year-old home'

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The remains of what is believed to be one of Scotland's earliest homes have been uncovered during construction works for the new Fo...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Slavic Origins. A Linguistic-Historical Workshop

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Slavic Origins. A Linguistic-Historical Workshop Wolfson College, Oxford, 10 December 2012 organized by Ilya Yakubovich and Marek Ja...

Wawel architectural complex – Centuries of Slavic heritage

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Wawel is an architectural complex erected over many centuries atop a limestone outcrop on the left bank of the Vistula River in Kraków, ...

Slavic Germany

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There was very little known about Slavs and their culture who lived in present day Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania until the end of the W...

Bogomilism among Slavic people

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Bogomilism was a heretical Gnostic dualistic sect, the synthesis of Armenian Paulicianism and the Bulgarian Slavonic Church reform movem...

Summer Courses in Archaeology

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Oxford Experience Archaeology Courses The Oxford Experience Summer School offers weekly introductory courses in the Sciences and Humani...

Milan cathedral puts gargoyles up for adoption

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Milan's main cathedral has put its 135 gargoyles up for adoption as it seeks to raise funds for renovations. Donors who contribute...

Pompeii collapses 'exaggerated' by media, site chief says

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Paestum, November 16 - Recent collapses at the ancient city of Pompeii had been exaggerated by the media and efforts to protect the site ...

Medieval underwear points to racy history

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Underwear dating from medieval times that was found under flooring of an Austrian castle is hardly racy by the standards of today. But ...

Archaeologists unearth rare finds

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Construction work on a new dual carriageway section of the A11 near Thetford has uncovered primitive flint tools dating back over 6,000 ...

Astronomer Tycho Brahe died of burst bladder, not poisoning

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Also, that famous silver prosthetic nose of his wasn't really silver, but brass, remains show  Two years after Tycho Brahe...

Scythian warriors show genetic blending between Europeans and Asians

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E vidence of the potential genetic blending between Europeans and Asians has been discovered by a team of researchers led by the Unive...

500-year-old remains of 3 males unearthed in remote Alaska

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Discovering prehistoric human remains in Interior Alaska is exceedingly rare, thanks to acidic soil in the region. So when three bodies...

Archaeologists probe River Leri wrecks near Aberystwyth

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One of the wrecks is jutting out of a bank on the River Leri at Ynyslas, near Aberystwyth   he wrecks of three 19th Century boats are...