Monday, May 31, 2021

Help our profession or UK’s shared history will be lost, say archaeologists

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An archaeologist excavates the Saxon ‘Prince of Prittlewell’ grave site before developers move in. Photograph: Mola Brexit has led to a seri...
Friday, May 28, 2021

University of Sheffield archaeology department set to close after management takes decision to cut courses despite 34,000 people signing a petition to save it

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A member of the University of Sheffield's archaeology department has confirmed that staff have been told the majority if its current fun...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Great Army of Viking warriors used Northumbria camp to launch raids on Picts

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The Great Army landed in Kent in 865 and overran much of England in the 860s and 870s A massive camp of the Viking Great Army discovered on ...

Viking Great Army launched devastating raids on Celtic Picts from massive hilltop camp in Northumbria, experts say

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The 49-hectare site in the Coquet Valley, Northumbria, has been explored by metal detectorists for the past 15 years A Viking Great Army cam...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Cerne Abbas Giant may have been carved into hill over 1000 years ago

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The Cerne Abbas Giant National Trust Images/Mike Calnan/James Dobson A mysterious chalk carving of a huge, naked man on an English hillside ...

Cerne Abbas Giant: Why the Anglo-Saxons created England’s most macho hillside chalk figure

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The giant, carved in solid lines from the chalk bedrock, measures in at 55 metres high, and carries a huge knobbled club, which measures 37 ...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Unique Bronze Age find just south of Alingsås

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Credit: Mats Hellgren A unique Bronze Age find was made on 8 April in a wooded area just to the south of the town of Alingsås. Following an ...

Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Woven wrist cuffs found at a Viking burial site Antiquity Publications Ltd/Rimstad et al/R. Fortuna, National Museum of Denmark The remains ...

Study: Cancer Rate in Medieval Britain Higher Than Expected

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A cancer cell (white) being attacked by two cytotoxic T cells (red), part of a natural immune response triggered by immunotherapy. Photo: Re...

Archaeology and the climate crisis: how the past could save the future

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"Archaeology bridges the gap, as it combines a scientific understanding with the cultural exploration of past human life." Unsplas...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Citizen archaeologist discovers ancient ‘logboat’ in the Boyne Valley

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Citizen archaeologist Anthony Murphy (pictured) appears to have found another potentially significant discovery in the Boyne Valley - a logb...

'Miracle' cave in South Africa may be the earliest known human dwelling EVER found, 1.8million-year-old stone tools suggest

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The team explored layers deep within the ancient cave and were able to successfully establish the shift from Oldowan tools, sharp flakes and...

Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe’s Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat?

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Arock carving discovered in Norway may be one of Europe’s earliest examples of art depicting a boat, reports Garry Shaw for the Art Newspape...

The Cave Where Vikings Offered Sacrifices To Stop The Apocalypse

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The Surtshellir Cave in Iceland was discovered to be a trove full of Middle Eastern artifacts, and the location was used by the Vikings as a...

Archeologists discover remains of Viking rituals in Iceland

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Volcano has erupted in Iceland near Reykjavik (photo credit: REUTERS) A site dating back to the Viking age, approximately 300 meters beyond ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Vikings created a massive boat in this volcanic cave to ward off the apocalypse

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Archaeologists found that the Vikings constructed this boat-shaped structure out of rocks. Inside the structure the Vikings burned animal bo...

Boat-Shaped Viking Structure Found in Icelandic Cave

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© Kevin P. Smith PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND—Live Science reports that a team of researchers led by Kevin Smith of Brown University has investi...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Viking metalwork craft and expertise evolved from 8th to 9th century

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The evolution of metalwork expertise and craftsmanship developed by Viking craftspeople in Denmark in the 8th and ...

Early bronze age tomb uncovered near Marlborough

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James Cameron at the site of the tomb in East Kennett (left) and exposed lintel at the tomb (right)  A rare archeological find has been unea...

Mesolithic Double Burial Discovered In France

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Mesolithic tomb of Casseneuil being cleared [Credit: Frederic Prodeo, Willford O'yl, Inrap] The Mesolithic covers a period of 5,000 year...