Friday, August 18, 2017

Viking Borgring Fortress Discovered In Denmark

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The Borgring fortress was discovered using airborne laser technology. It was built during the reign of the  Viking king Harald Bluetooth ...

Bronze Age tombs unearthed during car park construction in Switzerland

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The burial site of a Bronze Age warrior has revealed yet more treasures  [Credit: SBMA - ARIA SA] Workers digging the foundations for...

13 million-year-old infant ape skull discovered in the Turkana Basin

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Alesi partially excavated after careful removal of loose sand and rocks with dental picks and brushes. © Isaiah Nengo. The discovery in...

New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry

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Alesi, the skull of the new extinct ape species Nyanzapithecus alesi (KNM-NP 59050) [Credit: Fred Spoor] The discovery in Kenya of a ...
Friday, August 11, 2017

home UK politics world sport football opinion culture business lifestyle fashion environment tech travel browse all sections Archaeology The bone collector: eccentric archaeological treasury to be digitised

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Calvin Wells a GP and palaeopathologist whose work continues to be cited. His quirky sense of humour, however, was not to everyone’s tast...

DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000-year history of European fish trade

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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE—Norway is famed for its cod. Catches from the Arctic stock that spawns each year off its northern coast are expor...

'I've got some Viking': English villagers surprised by DNA test results

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DNA testing of residents of ancient village of Bledington showed genetic heritage spanning 18 locations around the world. Photograph: Sim...

Christopher Kissane: ‘Historical myopia is to blame for the attacks on Mary Beard’

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ‘legitimises autocracy with historical myths’. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images 2017 Anadolu Agency On ...

Engraved bones are 'evidence of cannibalistic rituals by early humans'

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The researchers suggest the engravings may have been part of an elaborate post-death ritual carried that culminated in the deceased being ...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Mary Beard is right – ‘Romans’ could be from anywhere, from Carlisle to Cairo

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Mary Beard has faced ‘unnecessary insult, misogyny and language of war’ for defending the BBC cartoon. The classics professor’s naysaye...
Sunday, August 06, 2017

Scientists uncover secrets of 12 Christian relics in Paris

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Alexandre Gérard examines one of the apostle statues. Photo: AFP Scientists in Paris are cracking the mystery of the 12 apostle statues...

Construction of a Luxury Hotel is Continuing in Sofia Despite the Discovery of an Ancient Roman Necropolis

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Work was in full swing at the building site of the first Hyatt  hotel  in Bulgaria, in the centre of the capital,  Sofia , on Monday,  B...

Miles of forgotten first world war trenches unearthed in England

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Trenches at Larkhill are clearly visible through the chalk backfill.  Photograph: © WYG/Wessex Archaeology Vast extent of the fortifi...

'Monumental' 16th century city walls unearthed by Antwerp tram work

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Belgian archaeologists inspect a 16th century fortification unearthed after tram works in Antwerp, Belgium  [Credit: Christopher Stern,...

Contents of 2,500-year-old sarcophagus discovered in Turkey's Balıkesir revealed

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R esearchers at the ancient Greek city of Antandrus, located in Turkey's Balıkesir province, have discovered the remains of a woman a...

Meet the mummified Polar beauty, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years

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She has long eyelashes, a full head of hair - and impressive teeth. Picture: Irina Sharova Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is ...

Ancient Greek quarry in Marseille 'partly classified' as historic monument

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The Greek quarry dating from the 5th century BC in Marseille is going to be partly classified  as a Historical Monument [Credit: AFP/Be...

Slawische und eisenzeitliche Siedlung bei Theißen entdeckt

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Blick auf die Ausgrabungsfläche mit Gruben und weiteren Befunden der slawischen Siedlung.  Foto © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt Bei Ausgrabungen...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals

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A Mycenaean woman depicted on a fresco at Mycenae on mainland Greece. Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their My...

Archaeologists uncover 'little Pompeii' in southeast France

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Archaeologists work on a mosaic on July 31, 2017, on the archaeological antiquity site of Sainte-Colombe, near Vienne, eastern France. Re...