Sunday, April 21, 2013

UK dig reveals 'sizeable' amount of Iron Age artefacts

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Ancient metal artefacts found at a Leicestershire site could go on permanent display, archaeologists say. Ancient human remains have also...

Mesolithic artefacts found at Stonehenge

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An excavation funded with redundancy money shows Stonehenge was a settlement 3,000 years before it was built. New archaeological evidence...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

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Aerial archaeology has revealed a network of World War I trenches on the Hoo Peninsula which could rewrite military history. ...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Norfolk Broads: Bronze Age evidence 'everywhere'

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    Ben Robinson said hundreds of archaeological sites on the Norfolk Broads could be revaluated Proof of Bronze Age activity can be ...

Vespasian’s Camp: Cradle of Stonehenge

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Salisbury Plain is renowned for its spectacular Neolithic monuments, but decades of research have found few traces of earlier activity i...

Stonehenge occupied 5,000 years earlier than thought

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New archaeological evidence from Amesbury in Wiltshire reveals traces of human settlement 3,000 years before Stonehenge was even bui...

Oldest European Medieval Cookbook Found

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A 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest known European Medieval food recipes, according to new research. The recipes, which inclu...

Funding cuts threaten North-Rhine Westphalia's cultural heritage

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North-Rhine Westphalia's unique cultural heritage is under threat. Massive cutbacks in public funding of cultural heritage have been an...

Stonehenge project compares Neolithic building methods

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An experiment is under way in Wiltshire to find out more about Neolithic building methods. Using archaeological evidence unearthed from nea...

Reconstructing how the Romans made glass

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Man has been making glass since the third millennium BC and during the manufacture of ancient glass, antimony, in a metal or mineral form, ...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mary Rose reveals armour piercing cannonball secret

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She was first raised from her underwater resting place more than 30 years ago and has been prized as an archaeological gem, but it appea...

Iron Age warriors point to glories of Gaul

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Cecile Paresys stands next to the bones of two Gauls, on a site in Bucheres, near Troyes, on April 11, 2013 (AFP, Francois Nascimbeni) ...

A flair for imperfections

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The axe from Hundvåg is damaged by a succession of failed strokes in both edge and body, suggesting that it was sculpted by an unskille...

Archaeologists uncover medieval murder mystery

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A 600-year-old body found by archaeologists excavating the crannog site in Co Fermanagh may have been the victim of an ancient murder myste...

Officials, police inspect Pompeii excavations

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The Italian government's anti-mafia directorate and police on Tuesday carried out raids at the world-famous archaeological site of Pomp...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Photos from the EMAS Archaeological Study Tour

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Photos from the EMAS 2013 Archaeological Study Tour are now online at: http://archeurope.smugmug.com/Category/Study-Tour-to-Yorkshir...

Study backs 'hobbit' island dwarfism theory

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How an ancient human species may have shrunk as a result of island dwarfism A diminutive species of human whose remains were fo...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Gaul warriors unearthed at 2,300-year-old site

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French archaeologists have unearthed the graves of several Gaul warriors dating back around 2300 years, at the site of a huge business pa...

Northampton Castle dig reveals Saxon past

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A "rare" Saxon brooch, a medieval harness, pottery and animal bones are among items found by archaeologists at Northampton's ...
Friday, April 12, 2013

'Pompeii of north' being unearthed in London

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Archaeologists working on a site in London are calling it "the Pompeii of the north" after they have managed to find Roman ar...