Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Ancient Tombs Unearthed in Nemea, Greece Shed Light on Mycenaean Civilization

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Aerial view of the road and the chamber of the two tombs in the eastern part of the Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia, along with the tombs f...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Archaeology Dig to start at Iron Age site in Caithness

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Aerial view of the Swartigill site. Photo: Bobby Friel @Takethehighview The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institu...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Ancient Greek skull found in Turkey shows evidence of neurosurgery performed 2,200 years ago

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Credit: AA Archaeologists carrying out excavations at the ancient Greek city of Euromus dating to the 5th century BC, in the area now o...

‘Perhaps the most important isotope’: how carbon-14 revolutionised science

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A photographic reproduction of the Turin shroud.  Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images The discovery that carbon atoms act as ...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Archaeologists discover almost 40 new monuments close to Newgrange

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The site of one of the newly discovered monuments found near Newgrange.  Credit: University College Dublin A team from University Col...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Archaeologists find rare Stone Age graves in Germany

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Archaeologists have discovered 25 rare Stone Age graves in the district of Borde, north of the city of Magdeburg in eastern Germany, acco...

The road to Scandinavia's bronze age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing

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The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental Europea...

Bronze Age children’s cemetery uncovered near Kilcreggan

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Sandra Kelly was uncovering a stone coffin yesterday Archaeologists have uncovered a series of graves dating back over 3,000 years at a...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Standing stones uncovered near important archaeological site

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This view of the site shows the alignment of the standing stones that have been found. (SBMA-ARIA SA.) Six aligned standing stones h...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Slovakia/Thousands of years old traces of human presence found in Tatra cave

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Source: Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak Researchers including Polish archaeologists discovered 14-15 thousand years old traces of human presenc...

10,000-year-old engraved 'pebble' found near Rome said to be earliest known lunar calendar

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The 10,000-year-old pebble which is believed to be the oldest lunar calendar in the world [Credit: Sapienza Universita di Roma] The old...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Finds from Celtic grave found in Zurich analyzed

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Reconstruction of the grave with tree coffin [Credit: Amt für Städtebau, City of Zurich] The tree coffin burial of a Celtic woman, whic...

Seltene Brandgräber aus der Steinzeit bei Wedringen

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Im Zuge des Neubaus der Ortsumfahrung bei Wedringen, Ortsteil von Haldensleben, Ldkr. Börde, führt das Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Ar...

Rare relics of an Iron Age warrior who fought the Romans

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The helmet and crest of the Iron Age warrior. Photo Allan HutchingsPhotography As the Novium in Chichester prepares to display the late...

Iron Age warrior's remains to go on show in Chichester

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The grave contained "significant" artefacts Chichester District Council The remains of an Iron Age warrior and his possess...

Grave of 'real-life Asterix' who fought Caesar found amid trove of weapons and possessions in West Sussex

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'Unique find': the artefacts have been carefully studied for the last decade CREDIT: PA The grave of a real-life Asterix contai...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Isle of Man Round Mounds: 'Spectacular' 4,000-year-old jet necklace found

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Sand on the beads from the burial site will be removed as part of the conservation process MNH A 4,000-year-old necklace has been uncove...

'Important' Iron Age settlement found at Warboys dig

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Roman finds include this jug and human remains, including six skeletons Oxford Archaeology East Iron Age roundhouses, Roman burials and...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Stone tool changes may show how Mesolithic hunter-gatherers responded to changing climate

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Reconstruction of a Mesolithic camp-site with a hunter in the front ready to fire an arrow  mounted with stone microliths [Credit: Ulco...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Archaeology Anthropology Palaeontology Evolution Exhibitions Natural Heritage Astronomy Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot

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A map showing where the ancestors of modern humans appear to have met and mixed with archaic hominins [Credit: University of Adelaide] Gen...