Saturday, June 26, 2021

Archaeologists excavate King's Quarter redevelopment to find Roman artefacts

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Archaeologists have descended on the £85million King's Quarter redevelopment after discoveries were made below the ground. They're h...

Broxmouth Hillfort: Study reveals clues ancient people kept loved-ones mundane keepsakes

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One of the graves at the site Pic: Broxmouth Project Archive  They were a people who lived almost two thousand years ago, who would have bee...

Scientists found fossils from a new species of human that’s 130,000 years old

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Scientists from Israel stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while studying fossilized pieces of bone dug up near a cement plant. The fragme...

Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution

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Chinese researchers have called the skull, found in Harbin in the north, Homo longi, or ‘Dragon man’, but other experts are more cautious ab...

New mystery human species discovered in Israel

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Archaeologists also found tools, butchered animal bones and evidence of a campfire at the Nesher Ramla excavation site. Photo / Yossi Zaidne...

New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel

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Skull found at the site among other items at Nesher Ramla. (photo credit: DR. YOSSI ZAIDNER) Hebrew U and Tel Aviv University researchers fo...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Looking for Viking ship burials with a 17th-century illustration

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New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup o...
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...