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The discovery of an early henge at Norton, Hertfordshire by local archaeologists
The story begins in 1936. Major Allen, a pioneer of aerial photography in Britain, flew over a field to the east of the young Letchworth Garden City and spotted a large ring in the crop, which he duly...
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Dating of beads sets new timeline for early humans
An international team of researchers and archaeologists, led by Oxford University has new dating evidence indicating when the earliest fully modern humans arrived in the Near East, the region known as...
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Gruesome deaths discovered by archaeologists
Archaeologists excavating remains have the job of forensic detectives to identify how and why an individual exhumed could have died. Here is an example of some of the most gruesome deaths identified...
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First magnetometer expedition over wrecks of USS Scourge (Lord Nelson) and...
Sailing out of Ontario’s historic Port Dalhousie on a glorious late June morning the tree lined shoreline of western Lake Ontario must have looked almost the same the morning of August 8, 1813 just...
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Significance of Megalithic Monuments in Atlantic Europe?
An archaeologists analysis on how the construction of megalithic monuments in Atlantic Europe are not restricted to a single purpose, nor how they reflect one aspect of the community that built them....
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Early Roman period mansion discovered by archaeologists
In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during...
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Giant prehistoric elephant slaughtered by early humans
Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as...
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UC Davis research finds Neandertals, not modern humans, made first...
One day in 2011, undergraduate student Naomi Martisius was sorting through tiny bone remnants in the University of California, Davis, paleoanthropology lab when she stumbled across a peculiar piece....
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Aboriginal civilisation at the last ice age
While we grapple with the impact of climate change, archaeologists suggest we spare a thought for Aboriginal Australians who had to cope with the last ice age. “The period scientists call the Last...
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Math explains history: Simulation accurately captures the evolution of...
The question of how human societies evolve from small groups to the huge, anonymous and complex societies of today has been answered mathematically, accurately matching the historical record on the...
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Alpine archaeology reveals high life through the ages
An international team of archaeologists led by experts from the University of York has uncovered evidence of human activity in the high slopes of the French Alps dating back over 8000 years. The...
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Roman skulls discovered under Liverpool Street Station
Crossrail tunnelers have discovered about 20 Roman skulls while building a utility tunnel at Crossrail’s Liverpool Street station site. Working under the direction of Crossrail’s archaeologists, the...
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Research suggests the Vikings may have been more social than savage
Academics at Coventry University have uncovered complex social networks within age-old Icelandic sagas, which challenge the stereotypical image of Vikings as unworldly, violent savages. Pádraig Mac...
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Unmasking Tutankhamun : the figure behind the fame
Tuthankamen’s famous burial mask, on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Wiki Commons Following the amazing discovery of the Egyptian king’s near-intact tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter in...
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Early Bronze Age migration from Sweden to Poland
During the Early Bronze Age there was a very high level of territorial mobility of the Únětice culture in Silesia, a large community inhabiting the south western territories of Poland approximately 4...
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200 year old Roman statue mystery solved
Archaeologists from Bournemouth University have been able to identify a stone head that was found in a flowerbed in Chichester over 200 years ago, and remained a mystery ever since. Using the latest...
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New information is discovered about the ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews
Professor Martin Richards, of the Archaeogenetics Research Group at the University of Huddersfield, has published a paper uncovering new information about how Ashkenazi Jewish men moved into Europe...
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Archaeology excavation discovers 2700 year old Greek Portico
A 2,700-year-old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the...
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Ancient artifact of Tutankhamun’s holds evidence of comet impact
Scientists have discovered the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path. The discovery...
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ERC advanced grant awarded to project on Roman food trade
José Remesal, professor of Ancient History at the UB, has received one of the advanced grants conferred by the European Research Council (ERC) to research leaders for the project EPNet (Production and...
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