Monday, October 07, 2013

Engraved Penises Reveal Birth Date of Italian City

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Two penises engraved on a 2,000 year old stone may shed light on the foundation of the city of Aosta in northern Italy, revealing its d...

1500 YEAR OLD SWEDISH FORTRESS MASSACRE REVEALED

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A rchaeologists at Lund University have found what they describe as a moment frozen in time by a brutal massacre, leaving a fort untouched...

Gamers take aim at ancient Pictish stone puzzle

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Jigsaw from 800AD: screenshot of the software program that allows gamers and others to play with 3,000 fragments in 3D. Picture: Contribu...

Evidence unearthed of Richard III's lost chapel

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Filming for Medieval Dead, where archaeologists believe they found proof of Richard III's lost chapel ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they ...

1,500 year old massacre found in Sweden

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Archaeologists at Lund University have found what they describe as a moment frozen in time by a brutal massacre, leaving a fort untouched s...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Roman skulls washed down lost river

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About 20 Roman skulls were dug up from an old river bed near Liverpool Street station in London Archaeologists working with London...

Museums 'ditching staff for volunteers'

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More than 120 museums took part in the survey about changes over the past year More than a third of museums and galleries cut staff la...

Mystery 13th Century eruption traced to Lombok, Indonesia

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Scientists think they have found the volcano responsible for a huge eruption that occurred in the 13th Century. The mystery event in 1...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Huge Chichester stone could be head of Roman Emperor Nero, say archaeologists

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A 26-stone head found in a flower bed in a Hampshire vicarage garden could represent Nero, the rarely-glimpsed Emperor whose first centur...

VIKINGS: LIFE AND LEGEND

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Roskilde 6 - VIKING exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark  © The National Museum of Denmark A  mighty warship that sailed near...

Stonehenge prepares to open visitor centre after decades of rows and delays

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Construction of museum, cafe and shop 1.5 miles from stones follows series of scrapped plans and missed deadlines The English Heritag...

Listen here: Our ancestors may have sounded like this

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Recording studios were hard to find 6,500 years ago, but thanks to centuries of scholarship, we may now be able to get a sense of how our a...

New Finds Uncovered at Ancient Greek Site of Argilos

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W ith a team of 50 students and additional help from workmen, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of structures at the site of anc...

Anthropologists confirm link between cranial anatomy and two-legged walking

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Comparison of the skeletons of three bipedal mammals:  an Egyptian jerboa, an eastern gray kangaroo and a human. Anthropology resea...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

The Vikings are coming...British Museum to launch Vikings: Life and Legend in March 2014

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Silver-inlaid axehead in the Mammen style, AD 900s. Bjerringhøj, Mammen, Jutland, Denmark. Iron, silver, brass. L 17.5 cm. © The National...

Yorkshire Museum appeals to public to help save Iron Age jewellery of pre-Roman torc

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Curators at The Yorkshire Museum are warning that a 2,000-year-old torc, described as having a rarer and more intricate style than i...

Mildenhall Museum ready for Anglo-Saxon warrior & horse

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The warrior and his horse are being displayed as they were found in the grave at RAF Lakenheath A Suffolk museum has taken delivery of...

British Museum to show Viking treasures from North Yorkshire

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The Vale of York viking hoard, which is going on show at the British Museum A MAJOR new exhibition featuring Viking finds from North Y...

Volunteer will spend winter in the medieval era

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Pavel Sapozhnikov decided to spend the winter without modern technology. Source: Dmitry Vinogradov / RIA Novosti Reenactment performers...

Ancient Greek site threatened amid celebration

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Greece—While world leaders and top athletes lit the Olympic flame with pageantry drawn from antiquity, another important ancient site of ...