Monday, February 26, 2018

This Roman ‘gate to hell’ killed its victims with a cloud of deadly carbon dioxide

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The ancient city of Hierapolis, located in modern-day Turkey  Is it possible to walk through the gates of hell and live? The Romans tho...

Britain's prehistoric catastrophe revealed

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Ancient Britons may have been nearly wiped out by bubonic plague brought by newcomers to the island The builders of Stonehenge are thou...

The Archaeology of Wealth Inequality

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Researchers trace the income gap back more than 11,000 years W hen the last of the volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius settled over Pompeii ...

Ancient Britons 'replaced' by newcomers

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Beaker pottery starts to appear in Britain around 4,500 years ago The ancient population of Britain was almost completely replaced by n...

Archaeologists have found the Roman Baths oldest mosaic

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Dr Sarah Morton said the find will "continue to develop our understanding of the Roman Baths" Archaeologists have made "a...

Roman boxing gloves unearthed by Vindolanda dig

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The gloves were "skilfully made" about 2,000 years ago Roman boxing gloves unearthed during an excavation near Hadrian's ...

13,500-year-old carved bison bone fished from the bottom of the North Sea

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he carved bison bone was fished out of the North Sea in 2005 and dates to the last Ice Age  [Credit: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden] Late I...

Remains of Roman road found in Northumberland

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A drone shot looks down at the Devil's Causeway, in Northumberland  [Credit: AAG Archaeology] The road can be traced from Portgat...

The Guardian view on Neanderthals: we were not alone

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Drawing of Panel 78 in La Pasiega by Breuil et al (1913). The red scalariform (ladder) symbol has a minimum age of 64,000 years but it is...

Neanderthals – not modern humans – were first artists on Earth, experts claim

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Paintings on a section of the La Pasiega cave wall, including a ladder shape composed of red horizontal and vertical lines. Photograph: P...

A rare Neanderthal hand axe found in a long lost cave in Wales

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Image courtesy National Museum Cardiff Elizabeth Walker, Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Archaeologist and Head of Collections at Nationa...

The Future of London’s Past

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‘ Central Considerations: Winchester, the birth of Urban Archaeology, and The Future of London’s Past’ A Lecture by ...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Into the light: how lidar is replacing radar as the archaeologist’s map tool of choice

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From the ground, structures in the dense Belize jungle were hard to map, but airborne lidar devices revealed details of a site that cover...

Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan'

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Groundbreaking lidar scanning reveals the true scale of Angamuco, built by the Purépecha from about 900AD Archaeology  might evoke ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Northumberland Bronze Age skeleton: Whose bones are these?

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Sanita Nezirovic has been investigating the Bronze Age remains Forensic scientists have been analysing Bronze Age bones found in a fiel...

Bizarre 'Spider Stones' Found at Site of Neolithic Sun-Worshipers

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Two of the 5,000-year-old "spider stones" unearthed on the Danish island on Bornholm. Credit: Bornholm Museum Strangely ma...

8,000-Year-Old Heads on Stakes Found in Mysterious Underwater Grave

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None of the human skulls had jaw bones. There was one human jaw bone at the site, but it wasn't associated with any of the skulls. ...

Neanderthals' lack of drawing ability may relate to hunting techniques

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Replica of drawing of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. Art in the cave has been identified  as created by early modern humans [Credi...

Major Neolithic ceremonial enclosure uncovered at Windsor

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An aerial view of the site of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure  [Credit: Wessex Archaeology] A major 5,500 year old Neolithic cerem...

Mystery of 8,000-Year-Old Impaled Human Heads Has Researchers Stumped

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Archaeologists have never before encountered this grisly phenomenon in Mesolithic Scandinavia, and they're hard-pressed to explain it. ...