Thursday, November 26, 2015

Gold jewellery unearthed at prehistoric site in Bulgaria

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As gold jewellery goes, it could be considered to be quite modest, but a 6,600 year old pendant discovered at the site of one of Europe...

Paleolithic elephant butchering site found in Greece

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Excavation with some of the elephant bones exposed. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture A new Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering si...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Genetic history of Europeans revealed

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A study of ancient DNA has shed new light on European genetic history. It confirms that farming spread across Europe due to the influx...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Scientists discover the cause behind prehistoric climate change

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Scientists now know why the climate underwent dramatic changes at the end of the last Ice Age. The atmosphere plays an important rol...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Explore 4,500 British Museum artifacts with Google's help

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The  British Museum  in London holds an array of beautiful and historically significant artifacts including the Rosetta Stone, which hel...

Early farmers exploited beehive products at least 8,500 years ago

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Humans have been exploiting bees as far back as the Stone Age, according to new research from the University of Bristol published in Natu...

Ancient hominids used wooden spears to fend off big cats

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Human ancestors living in Central Europe between 320,000 and 300,000 years ago may have used wooden spears to fend off fearsome, meat-ea...

Neolithic tomb discovered on Irish hilltop

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A hilltop tomb recently discovered close to the edge of Tievebaun mountain on the Sligo/Leitrim border may be more than 5,000 years old , a...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

New Drought Atlas Maps 2,000 Years of Climate in Europe

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Numerous droughts have hit European agriculture over the ages, but their overall extent has been known mainly from scattered historical ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Ice Age engravings found at Jersey archaeological site

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A dig in Jersey has yielded a stash of hunter-gatherer artefacts from the end of the last Ice Age, including stone pieces criss-crossed ...

Rare Unlooted Grave of Wealthy Warrior Uncovered in Greece

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Archaeologists hail the burial, untouched for 3,500 years, as the biggest discovery on mainland Greece in decades. The text message f...

Anglesey dig unearths largest neolithic site in Wales

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The largest ever Neolithic discovery in Wales has been made by archaeologists investigating the site of a new school. More than 2,000 ...

Early Neolithic feasting rituals in Scotland

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Between 2008 and 2012, archaeologists from Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division and later GUARD Archaeology Ltd, led by Maur...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 10 GRAVES IN NECROPOLIS OF BRONZE AGE DANUBE RIVER CULTURE NEAR BULGARIA’S BALEY

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The 2015 excavations of the necropolis of the settlement of the “Culture of the Encrusted Ceramics of the Lower Danube” took place in mid...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

3,500-year-old warrior prince tomb is 'most exciting Ancient Greek find for decades'

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Experts describe the discovery of tomb packed full of gold, silver and weapons, which sheds light on ancient Mycenaean and Minoan civili...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Hazelnut shells found at Skye Mesolithic site

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The remains of hazelnuts eaten by some of Skye's earliest inhabitants were found at a dig on the island, archaeologists have reveale...

Plague traced back to Bronze Age

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Plague has been a scourge on humanity for far longer than previously thought, ancient DNA shows. Samples taken from the teeth of seven...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Oldest evidence of human activity found in Scotland

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Archaeologists from the University of Reading have found the earliest dated evidence for human activity in Scotland - with a helping hand f...

Digitising Yorkshire's savannah past

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Ancient bones from a North Yorkshire cave, including the remains of rhinos, bears and hyenas, are to go on display in a "virtual mu...
Friday, October 9, 2015

First ancient African genome solves migration mystery

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An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time. Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discov...