Friday, November 28, 2014

People ate mammoth; Dogs got reindeer

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Artist's depiction of cave painting of primitive hunt (stock image). Credit: © Nomad_Soul / Fotolia Bi ogeologists have shown how...

Sword’s Secrets Revealed

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The discovery of an Anglo-Saxon sword this summer was cause for great excitement at the  Barrow Clump excavation. We were keen to learn a...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

HAS ONE OF HARALD BLUETOOTH’S FORTRESSES COME TO LIGHT?

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In September 2014, archaeologists from the Danish Castle Centre and Aarhus University announced the discovery of a Viking fortress in a...

X-rays reveal secrets of Anglo-Saxon sword

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Archaeologists have used an army field hospital’s x-ray machine to examine a corroded steel sword, confirming the pattern of the weapon alo...

Recreating clothes from Norway's Iron Age

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A few years ago, the oldest known piece of clothing ever discovered in Norway, a tunic dating from the Iron Age, was found on a glacier in ...

Graves of 'vampires' discovered in Poland were cholera victims

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Archaeologists have discovered the graves of cholera victims which were treated like vampires to stop them rising from the grave and infec...

Woolly mammoth skeleton fetches £189,000 at auction

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Monty the woolly mammoth skeleton is displayed at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Get...

Stone age axe found with wood handle

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Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an incredibly rare find: a stone age axe held within its wooden handle. The 5,500-year-old Ne...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Anglo Saxon graves found during excavation of Burwell Road, Exning

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Twenty one skeletons of Anglo Saxon people have been found – just one foot under the ground – during an archaeological dig in Exning. ...

A peek inside a Viking piggybank: CT scans of treasure chest reveal hidden brooches, gold ingots and ivory beads

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Derek McLennan found more than 100 objects in Dumfries in September In addition to the pot, hoard includes jewellery, arm bands and silv...

Vases in Pompeii Reveal Panic Before Eruption

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French and Italian archaeologists digging out a pottery workshop in Pompeii have brought to light 10 raw clay vases, revealing a frozen-...

Climate change was not to blame for the collapse of the Bronze Age

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Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers ...

Were Neanderthals a sub-species of modern humans? New research says no

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In an extensive, multi-institution study led by SUNY Downstate Medical Center, researchers have identified new evidence supporting the gr...

Solent's Stone Age village 'washing away'

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In 1999, a team of divers off the Isle of Wight came across a lobster busily digging out its burrow. To their surprise they found it was ki...

Woolly mammoth could be cloned by South Korean scientists

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Scientists are considering an attempt to ressurect the extinct woolly mammoth. But concerns have been raised about the ethics of such a ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Magnificent Ancient Roman Silver Treasure Revealed

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Accidentally discovered by a French farmer plowing his field near the village of Berthouville in rural Normandy in 1830, the spectacular ...

Rare pre-historic basket found in North Uist set for imminent excavation

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A pre-historic woven reed basket found last week in North Uist is to be excavated by specialist archaeologists within the next few days....

5,000 year old footprints found in Denmark

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Archaeologists working on the excavations for the Femern Bælt Tunnel have discovered several well-preserved footprints dating back to the S...

First Europeans 'weathered Ice Age'

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The DNA comes from a man who lived in westernmost Russia some 36,000 years ago The genetic ancestry of the earliest Europeans survive...

Scanning the Viking Hoard

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The recently discovered Viking Hoard in Dumfries is arguably the most significant archaeological find in Scotland in the last 100 years...