Friday, April 28, 2023

Modern-day Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people found to have Pictish ancestry

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Pictish Stone in the Museum of Scotland. Credit: Johnbod/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have ...

Collectors guilty of illegal plot to sell historic Anglo-Saxon coins abroad

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Two metal detectorists have been found guilty of hatching an illegal plot to sell Anglo-Saxon coins of “immense historical significance” abr...

Burnt graves full of ancient Roman artifacts uncovered during construction in Belgium

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Experts said they were surprised by their findings. Gemeente Zemst What started as a pre-construction archaeological project in Belgium has ...

Archaeologists Find Evidence of ‘Lost’ Ancient Roman Campaign in Arabia

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The Romans tell that their conquest of the Nabateans was peaceful, but is that a tall tale of the victor? Or did they erase the memory of a ...

Neanderthals Built Boats And Sailed 100,000 Years Ago – Long Before Modern Humans

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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excelle...

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Necropolis Near Parisian Train Station

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Researchers uncovered 50 burials dated to roughly the second century C.E. © Camille Colonna / INRAP Residents of Lutetia buried their dead a...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Urine Wheels in Medieval Manuscripts: Discover the Curious Diagnostic Tool Used by Medieval Doctors

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If you went to the doctor in late medieval Europe hoping to get a health complaint checked out, you could be sure of one thing: you’d have t...

Researchers discover 18th century clay tobacco pipes were used as weapons and surgical tools

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The ready availability of clay pipes meant that they were sometimes used for other activities other than smoking. Ashmolean Museum, CC BY-NC...

Archaeologists found a lost Roman fortlet in Scotland

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An artist's impression of Watling Lodge fortlet, which also once stood along the Antonine Wall, and would have been similar to the fortl...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Vikings in Greenland Imported Wood From Europe – and Canada

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Christian Krohg's painting of Viking explorer Leif Erikson discovering America. Credit: National Gallery of Norway The Vikings built hom...

Luck of the Vikings: Their Arrival Reversed Ireland's Decline, Say Archaeologists

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Study debunks notion that Ireland had been populous when the Nordic migrants arrived in the 10th century: The island had been in decline for...

Roman burial site discovered on Nuneaton land set for giant new housing estate

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Before and after - the land at Top Farm, left, and the masterplan for its future use - including 1,700 homes. Now works are to be undertaken...

1,600-year-old temple to mysterious Roman god unearthed in Germany. Take a look

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Lord Mayor Wolfram Leibe and Minister of the Interior Michael Ebling at the excavations in Trier. Torch lights flicker in the underground sp...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark

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The silver coins were found about 5 miles from the Fyrkat Viking ringfort, near the town of Hobro. Photograph: North Jutland Museum Archaeol...

Who Were the Neanderthals & Why Are They Important to Modern Humans?

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Since their discovery in 1856, the Neanderthals have been stereotyped as brutish characters, devoid of the complexities that make modern hum...

Roman Temple Uncovered in Northwestern France

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(© Emmanuelle Collado, Inrap) BRITTANY, FRANCE—Live Science reports that a structure thought to have been a temple dedicated to Mars, the Ro...

Huge Viking Treasure Hoard Found At Fyrkat Ring Castle By Metal Detectorists

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Aerial view of the Fyrkat Viking ring castle ruins. Credit: Adobe Stock - Cavan A group of metal detectorists examining a field near the Vik...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Evidence Norse Greenlanders Imported Timber From North America

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he native trees of Greenland are unsuitable for larger construction projects or shipbuilding. Instead, the Norse colonists (AD 985–1450) rel...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Sea-level rise in Southwest Greenland as a contributor to Viking abandonment

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Vikings occupied Greenland from 985 CE to the mid-15th century. Hypotheses regarding their disappearance include combinations of environment...

Rising Sea Level Caused Vikings To Abandon Greenland – New Study

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Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously v...