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January 2022
4,500 year old rope found in Turkey
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/12/4500-year-old-rope-remains-found-in.html
What do we really know about Druids? (video)
https://www.facebook.com/MoonBooks/videos/878654736331616
Bronze Age jewelry found in Slovakia
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/12/trove-of-late-bronze-age-jewellery.html
The lost history of Yellowstone
Did a Viking woman named Gudrid travel to North America in 1000CE?
The Faroe Islands were settled before the Vikings go there
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/faroe-islands-early-human-occupation-10416.html
Purgatorius – the earliest human ancestor lived with dinosaurs
The way we were – top human evolution stories of 2021
A Roman fort discovered in the Netherlands
Strangest archaeological finds of 2021https://greekreporter.com/2021/12/29/strangest-archaeological-finds-2021-athenian-curse/embed/#?secret=Qkfvk8ZaUh
The Isle of Man’s Viking Era
Louse glue preserves ancient DNA
Ancient human and animal DNA is being found in sedimentshttps://scitechdaily.com/how-ancient-human-and-animal-dna-is-preserved-in-archaeological-sediments-for-thousands-of-years/embed/#?secret=yusWyGuSeQ
A Roman era statue uncovered in Greecehttps://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/12/archaeologists-excavate-roman-era-statue-in-centre-of-ancient-veria/142364/embed#?secret=I1fx51acmR
Spain returns smuggled artefacts to Egypt
A Pharaoh’s mummy is digitally unwrapped
White Tribalism, Vikings and Indigenous erasure
Landing places of Vikings in Scotland is being mapped
The history of Celtic archaeology examined (video)
An ancient statue of Cybele goes on exhibit in Turkey
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Russian archaeologists unearth a birch bark letterhttps://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/12/archaeologists-unearth-birch-bark-letter-in-novgorod/142348/embed#?secret=ikXUeIUMHw
Ancient DNA Reveals The World’s Oldest Family Tree
Solar Flare Throws Light On Ancient Trade Between The Islamic Middle East And The Viking Age
Celtic languages came into Britain from France
‘Garbage dump’ discovered in ancient Egyptian tomb dedicated to fertility goddess
The Taupo Stones megalithic site, New Zealand
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Iron Age Settlement Unearthed During Roadworks In Worcestershire, England
Roman Coins, Jewelry Among Shipwrecked Items Found Off Caesarea
Finds from the ancient Mediterranean and Eastwardhttps://wildhunt.org/2021/12/finds-from-the-ancient-mediterranean-and-eastward.html/embed#?secret=qfZzYnuckw
A 7000 year old stone circle site in Portugal (video)
Five Ice Age Mammoths Unearthed With Neanderthal Stone Tools In Britain
The Viking blood-eagle – new research
Vikings fled Greenland to escape rising seashttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/vikings-greenland-rising-sea-level-climate/embed#?secret=Y8oBxhHJjA
Ancient golden neck ring found in Jutlandhttps://cphpost.dk/?p=130253&embed=true#?secret=Az23am3oWB
Spanish Researchers Claim To Have Located Lost Ancient Temple Dedicated To Melqart/Herakles
Almost 200 Artifacts Seized From New York’s Fordham Museum Of Greek, Etruscan, And Roman Art Repatriated To Italy
Archaeologists Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Statues In Western Turkey
How the Celts brewed ale (video)
Objects from the British Museum’s Stonehenge exhibithttps://museumcrush.org/the-objects-that-help-us-understand-stonehenge/embed/#?secret=6wyFSP9hfD
Skara Brae 3-D modelhttps://archaeologyorkney.com/2021/12/17/get-up-close-to-skara-brae-with-new-3d-model-of-5000-year-old-settlement/embed/#?secret=PEMISIeqvR
Dowth archeoastronomy alignments (video)
Ancient Egyptian artefacts’ smuggled to Israel’ are being returned to Cairo as a ‘goodwill gesture.’
Discovering Sources Of Roman Silver Coinage From The Iberian Peninsula
Looted Artifacts Recovered From Car Trunk May Be Spoils of War Seized by Jewish Rebels Against Rome
Blood found on ancient gold mask unearthed from Sicán tomb reveals rituals of the elitehttps://www.studyfinds.org/ancient-mask-sican-tomb-blood-rituals-elite/embed/#?secret=YtdE79E8p9
Is Colorado home to an ancient astronomical observatory? The question is testing archaeological limits.
Utah professor discovers extinction of ancient herbivores fueled wildfires.
New discoveries at Newgrange (video)
A Roman rock crystal jar from the Galloway hoard is recreated
Ostrich Eggshell Beads Reveal 50,000-Year-Old Social Network Across Africa
Settlement Of Rapa Nui May Have Been Doomed By A Dearth Of Dust
An ancient civilization that fell out of love with gold for 700 years
Humans Reached Remote North Atlantic Islands Centuries Earlier Than Thought
How Neanderthals changed ecosystems
Wealth and power in Medieval Iceland
First Genome-Wide Ancient Human DNA From Sudan Shines New Light On Nile Valley Past
Archaeologists Discover Oldest Domesticated Dog Remains in Americas
Greek and Roman statue heads unearthed in Greece
Secrets of the Iron Age metal trade
The Sutton Hoo lyre resembles an ancient Kazak model
Medieval grave contained a porpoise
Europe’s Earliest Female Infant Burial Reveals A Mesolithic Society That Honored Its Youngest Members
Top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2021https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/12/top-10-archaeological-discoveries-of-2021/142248/embed#?secret=UgwhXBR0Zb
In Hometown of Mary Magdalene, Israeli Archaeologists Find Second Synagogue
3-D tour of Athens 500 BCE (video)
Numerous Finds Emerge From The House Of The Library In Pompeii
A 13th century figure of a falconer found in Oslo
Did dinosaur faces and feet have color?
Dinosaurs and amber
A Viking sword found in Orkney
The oldest ink pen every discovered in Ireland
Ethiopian Monuments 1,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought
Does DNA Simplify or Complicate Repatriation Claims?
The ethical battle over ancient DNA
The 12 most exciting finds from the Gjellestad Viking ship dig
Archaeologists discover fragment of a “Stargazer” statue in Turkey
US court blocks Turkey’s effort to repatriate ancient statue of a “Stargazer”
Ostrich shells can be used to date ancient humans in Africa
Denisovans Or Homo Sapiens: Who Were The First To Settle Permanently On The Tibetan Plateau?
Ancient DNA Found In Soil Samples Reveals Mammoths, Yukon Wild Horses Survived Thousands Of Years Longer Than Believed
Evidence Of A Roman Crucifixion Found In Cambridgeshire
Looted Gilgamesh Tablet Finally Returns To Iraq
Stolen antiquities surrendered by billionaire collectorhttps://wildhunt.org/2021/12/stolen-antiquities-surrendered-by-billionaire-collector.html/embed#?secret=23dd1TZXKW
United Nations General Assembly Unanimously Adopts Greek Resolution On Return Of Cultural Property
A 1000 year old Egyptian earring found in Denmark
A 1500 year old woman’s grave found in Bavaria
A 1600 year old woman’s burial from Denmark
A Neolithic and Bronze Age children’s tomb in Denmark
A field of dolmens in southern Jordan
Altar hidden by Aztecs after the Spanish conquest discovered in Mexico City
Nordic Iron Age long houses discovered
Gold ornaments found in ancient Chinese tombs
Roman statues found under a Norman church in England
Did Vikings really torture people with the “Blood Eagle”?
Egyptian Jewelry, Mesopotamian Seal Found in Cyprus Offer Clues to Bronze Age Trade Networks
Human remains with golden tongues found in Egypt
Rome – from city to empire in 600 years
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-rome
Images of female Vikings?
The Medieval Monarch who ate so many eels he died
Sicilian authorities recover over 11,000 looted artefacts
Italy will return part of the Parthenon frieze to Greece
Spanish authorities recover over 400 looted artefacts
Can the post-glacial peopling of the British Isles by Anglo-Saxons and Celts be measured? (paper)
200,000 year old Denisovan fossils are the oldest yet found
October 2021
- Thousands of Years Before Humans Raised Chickens, They Tried to Domesticate the World’s Deadliest Bird
- Sparta was more than an army of super warriors
- Ancient Native American cave art in the southeast
- Temple of Zeus in Turkey to be restored
- Is this the real King Arthur? (video)
- The unsung heroines of the Sutton Hoo dig
More… - Two new species of dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight, UK
- Viking hygiene, clothing and jewelry
- Listen to spoken Gaulish (video)
- Gibraltar cave discovery could bring new insights into Neanderthals
- A new species of ancient eagle from Australia discovered
- Trophies of Empire: the case of the Parthenon sculptures
- 7 gold pendants were offered as sacrifices in Norway 1500 years ago
- Roman tiles found at a UK cricket club
- Like Neanderthals early humans endured a frigid Europe
- The Norse temple at Uppsala, a religious center dedicated to the Norse Gods Thor, Odin, and Freyr
- The Uffington White Horse (I still think it’s a cat)
- Statues of Greek Gods and Goddesses found in Turkey
- Does DNA validate Gimbuta’s Kurgan theory?
- Secrets of a 1,800 year old jadeite statue from Mexico
- De-coding human history through DNA
- The genetic descent of the Etruscans deciphered
- Five ancient human species
- Stone Age personal ornaments
More… - The Morality of Archaeology (Catholic essay)
- Gold of the great Steppe – an exhibit opens
- Hobby Lobby returns smuggled Gilgamesh tablet to Iraq
More… - Amateur divers find a hoard of Roman coins
- Oldest known human footprints in the Americas
- They moved land and bent rivers to make this city the center of the cosmos
- Archaeologists See Ancient Teotihuacán With Aerial Mapping Tech
- Extreme Volcanism Did Not Cause The Massive Extinction Of Species In The Late Cretaceous
- Roman-Era Mixers And Millstones Made With Geology In Mind
- Early Long-Distance Trade Links Shaped Siberian Dogs
- A Stonehenge “replica” (that looks nothing like Stonehenge) is for sale in Devon, UK
- Fall Equinox and the near-perfect alignment of the great Pyramid
- Mayan pyramids and volcanic eruptions
- Ritual tools sacred to Hathor found in Egypt
More… - Egyptian statues of servants for the afterlife found in Turkish area burials
- Radar reveals details of what’s under a dig in UK
- The Taliban are seeking to steal Bactrian gold treasures
- What did Etruscan sound like? (video)
- How Neanderthals caught birds
More… - Ancient DNA rewrites Japanese early genetic ancestry
- Ancient female spiders caught in amber had maternal instincts
- Why couldn’t Iron Age Britons throw some things away?
- Ceremonial Medieval shield looted by Nazis to be returned to the Czech Republic
- Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave
More… - 6000 year old camel sculptures from Saudi Arabia
- Cave filled with 1000 year old Osage art sold against the tribe’s wishes
- Stonehenge is undergoing repairs
- Works ongoing to reveal cultural timeline of Alacahöyük, a 7000 year old city
- Milk enabled massive steppe migrations
- Dutch Neanderthal now has a face
- Meat-Heavy Diets Restricted Hunter-Gatherer Population Sizes
- Prehistoric Humans Rarely Mated With Their Cousins
- An eternal embrace
- Hand And Footprint Art Dates To Mid-Ice Age
More… - “Bristol Merlin” manuscript fragments featured in new book
More: Bristol Manuscript Fragments Of The Famous Merlin Legend Among The Oldest Of Their Kind
More… - Festivals and deaths in the ancient Irish Landscape (paper)
- Egypt Opens Ancient Tomb Of King Djoser After Restoration
- A 3,000 year old gold mask unearthed in China
- The oldest known archaeological sites; 2.5 million years
- Byzantine Mosaics Discovered In Balatlar Excavations
- More Than 20 Burials, House Remains Found In 7,000-Year-Old Mound In Turkey
- Archaeologists Uncover ‘Anglo-Saxon Church’ In Stoke Mandeville, England
- Stonehenge and contemporary Paganism and Alternative Archaeology (paper)
- A Bronze Age coffin found in a golf course pond in England
- Ancient Greek pop culture
- The idea of “Atlantis” is making people crazy on Twitter
- Fascinating objects that tell story of Scotland’s witch hunts go on show
- Environmental Conditions Of Early Humans In Europe
- Researchers Reconstruct Major Branches In The Tree Of Language
- Late Neanderthal tools were complex
- Britain’s Roman gladiators
- Hand-Carved, 400,000-Year-Old Bone Tool Used for Smoothing Leather Found in Italy
- The Griffin Warrior Tomb from ancient Greece
- Statue of Hadrian found in Turkey
- A British foundation returns looted treasures to Ethiopia
- Mysterious dolmens of the Caucasus region
- An archaeological find in Ireland that may have Pagan origins
- Polished, 5,500-Year-Old Stone Balls Found in Neolithic Scottish Tomb
- An early English warrior buried with his horse and dog, found in Kent
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More… - A pre-Sumerian settlement found in Turkey
- Hippos once roamed the Arabian desert
- Seal impressions shed light on ancient bureaucracy
- A Phoenician sun dial returns to view in Lebanon
- How to make Pompeiian bread
- How pottery reveals what ancient people ate
- Exploring Sudan’s Jebel Barkal, home to ancient Egyptian god Amun
- Ancient Buddhist sites in danger again after Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
- A Pre-Viking gold treasure hoard found in Denmark
More… - A noble burial with a dog, horses, cattle and sheep found in Turkey
- A 5,500 year old amber burial in Russia
- Iron Age Grave Of Warrior Found In Sweden
- New Finds At The Sanctuary Of Artemis Amarysia
- The ancient art of tattooing
- Trove of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts missing from Iraq found in Norway
- Mesolithic settlements in Russia being excavated
- The first farmers of Europe
- New Evidence Supports Idea That America’s First Civilization Was Made Up Of ‘Sophisticated’ Engineers
- Turkish Archaeologists Unearth Headless Statue of Greek Health Goddess (We need her now!)
September 2021
- Prehistoric Arabia was once lush and green and drew early humans
- A Bronze Age cemetery excavated in Hungary
- Study Shows Evidence Of Beer Drinking 9,000 Years Ago In Southern China
- WWII bunker found inside a Roman fort
- A lost Celtic city was found in France
More… - Will bog archaeology fade away due to climate change?
- The Hobbit’s bite gets a stress test
- Ancient Humans Turned Elephant Remains Into A Surprising Array Of Bone Tools
More… - Transylvanian burials had urns on their heads
- Aztec pictograms are the first records of earthquakes in the Americas
- Cairo Genizah paper may hold key to secrets of Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
- Gobekli Tepe and the earliest evidence for religion
- Roman men and women had different diets, Vesuvius victims show
- “Arthur’s Stone” is 6,000 years old
More… - A teen from a new species of human discovered
- Figurine of the Goddess Cybele found in Turkey
- A burial with amber, from around 3400 BC during the Chalcolithic or Copper Age found in Russia
- Egypt names 43 million year old “Walking Whale” after the God of Death
- A statue of the Goddess Hygeia found in Turkey
- Explained: An ancient Dravidian language link with Indus Valley civilization
- Central European prehistory was highly dynamic, DNA shows
- Archaeologists search for ‘enormous’ ancient ritual site on Scottish island
- Prehistoric gold from Co. Cork and Co. Waterford, Ireland (paper)
- Viking Age gold and silver from Irish crannogs (paper)
- Byzantine era wine press and gold coin found in Israel
- Perfectly preserved mammoth bone structures from ice age Ukraine
- 800 year old chain mail found in Ireland
- Using remote sensing and machine learning to find archaeological sites
- Genetic Histories And Social Organization In Neolithic And Bronze Age Croatia
- An early Medieval monastery run by a queen found in the UK
- Celtic Gods of Iberia (paper)
- Ogham stones to be digitized in 3-D
- A new film about Ann Axtell Morris, a pioneering archaeologist, to be released later this year
- Italy wins its case seeking to repatriate a marble statue
- Heavy rain floods the British museum, dripping water on to the Elgin marbles
- The Armorican/Veneti Celtic navy (video)
- The Temple of Venus at Pompeii
- Dating the Cerne Abbas geoglyph
- Antiquities smuggling still on the rise
- Ancient flower offerings found under a Mexican pyramid
- A skeleton in Pompeii has theater references
- Turkish authorities and British archaeologists are battling over ancient plants essential to science—and might hold clues to new superfoods
- Using Earth’s magnetic field to date archaeological artifacts
- Were the Scots Irish? (paper)
- Megalithic Iberia (video)
- Gobekli Tepe – 6000 years older than Stonehenge
- The Royal Game of Ur (video)
- Lead found in 5000 year old human bones
- Did the Celts fight naked? (video)
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- Possibly the oldest African burial known
- A 6th century Christian town in Egypt discovered
- An ornate silver hoard found in a Russian forest
- More treasure found in Russia
- Study Takes Unprecedented Peek Into Life Of 17,000-Year-Old Mammoth
- Upper Paleolithic Human Remains Found At The Cova Gran De Santa Linya Site
- Archaeologists Reveal Origins Of Famous UK Stone Age Monument
- People In The Philippines Have The Most Denisovan DNA
- How Did Pleistocene Hominins Cross The Sea?
- Camper finds stash of Roman coins on the beach
- A Celt-Iberian reconstructed village (video)
- A change in grave goods in Europe – 400 BCE to 800 CE
- Pharaoh Khufu’s boat is on the move after 4,600 years
- Spain’s conquest of the Aztecs – the birth of western imperialism
- An ancient pit house found in British Columbia
- New evidence that ancient Romans fed their captives to lions
- A 1,600 year old wooden idol found in an Irish bog
More… - New species of ancient conifers identified in Japan
- Bronze Age farmers in China favored cows over sheep and goats
- Using AI to decipher Medieval texts
- Ancient Celtic religion and sacred sites
- Gilgamesh Tablet Among 17,000 Looted Artefacts Returned To Iraq By US
- A Roman mosaic floor found in an Italian vineyard
- A coin depicts Julian the Apostate a member of the Roman Empire’s Christian dynasty who helped reinstate Paganism when he became emperor in AD361
- Stonehenge was almost lost due to archaeological incompetence
- A giant “dragon” discovered in Australia
- A forgotten section of Hadrian’s wall discovered in Newcastle
- A possible Medieval castle found in the UK
- Gold of the Scythians exhibit opens in UK
- As in myth, Alachua County’s River Styx holds a mystery of the dead
- Poverty Point – a pre-Hispanic Native American site in LA
- A 2000 year old Roman temple found in the UK
- The oldest coin minting site in the world is in China
- Some Medieval earthworks in Scotland
- Prehistoric monument unearthed in the UK
More… - Viking secrets emerge in Norway
- The Cathach of Colum Cille: The story of an ancient Irish manuscript
- Massive fires rage in Greece, threatening ancient sites
- The Celtic God Esus (paper)
- Who were the Picts?
- Babylonians used applied geometry 1000 years before Pythagoras
More… - Machu Pichu is older than was thought
- Some enigmatic Viking artefacts
- A rediscovered piece of Stonehenge yields new clues
- An Anglo-Saxon sword pyramid found in the UK
- Is this an intersex Viking warrior’s grave?
- Scottish and Irish researchers are studying Ogham script
- UK court overturns Stonehenge tunnel plan for now
More… - Neolithic wooden posts found at the Ness of Brodgar (Wow!)
More… - “Digging in to” early Medieval graves
- Study confirms art in Spanish cave was made by Neanderthals
- Dress and ornament in early Medieval Ireland (paper)
August 2021
- The real Paleo diet (Bronze Age baby bottles depicted below)
- Fruit baskets from fourth century BC found in ruins of Thonis-Heracleion
- A trove of Roman weapons discovered in Spain
- Late Stone Age cave paintings in India
- Remains of a woman with twin fetuses found in a 4000 year old urn
- High Court throws out Stonehenge tunnel plan (Thank the Gods)
- Native American river mounds in the southeast
- Another Neolithic domestic quarter unearthed at Catalhoyuk in Turkey
- Scientists in Morocco unearth oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site in North Africa
More… - A new way to look at ancient cave art
- Ancient human remains, artefacts found in Cambridgeshire, UK
- 17000 ancient looted artefacts returned to Iraq
- Hobby Lobby museum forced to return more smuggled artefacts to Iraq
- Metal artefacts from Southeast Asia
- Sacred springs and wells in Britain (video)
- A Bronze Age water ritual site
- Ireland’s Golden Age of art
- Mexican archaeologists rebury an Aztec site after losing funding
- Treasures found in a 2200 year old Egyptian shipwreck
- The Celts (video)
- Archaeologists Discover 2,550-Year-Old Carving of the Last King of Babylon
- One more theory for how Stonehenge was built
- A new Scottish archaeology app
- The Siberian “Ice Maiden”
- CalTech professor damages and defaces Native American sacred site
- Remains of the Ancient One found in Columbia River in Kennewick
- Veterans help build a Bronze Age Celtic roundhouse
- A 1st century Roman marble altar to the Gods
- Bronze Age swords (video)
- Mummified Egyptian cats
- The Incan cave temple of the Moon
- Stonehenge could lose world heritage status if tunnel goes through
- The archaeology of climate change
- 15,000 year old viruses found in glacier ice
- Chimpanzees have not yet entered the stone age
- Is this a Neolithic cathedral? (video)
- Widespread social networks began 400,00 years ago
- A Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon
- Pictish finds at Groam House museum
- A Neanderthal stone tool that tells a story
- Viking life on Orkney
- Scottish archaeology – Uist
- A Northern mixed Viking-Age coin hoard found by a metal detectorist
- The ethics of remote sensing in archaeology studies
- Divers Discover Ancient Military Vessel in Submerged Egyptian City
- Tollund Man feasted on porridge and fish before being killed as a ritual sacrifice 2,400 years ago
- A Visigoth sarcophagus found in Spain
- Cock of the north: Roman stone-carved penis uncovered during Yorkshire archaeological dig
- Viking discovery in UK ‘predates’ Scandinavian artefacts
- 10th century church found in Saxony
- Dark Age grave exhumations
- Spectacular mosaic discovered in Greece
- Roman gold mines identified in central Portugal
- Etruscan boy’s remains found
- The stones of Carnac, Brittany
- Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans
- A stone that outlines ancient Rome’s city limits
- Cannabis was first domesticated in Neolithic China
- Origins of the Japanese people – DNA study
- Scotland’s artificial islands
- Egyptian Book of the Dead fragments, half a world apart, are pieced together
- The conversion of Britain 600-800 CE (PDF)
- An iconic Greek helmet found in Croatia
- When did humans start experimenting with drugs and alcohol?
- 2,000-year-old pistachio nut among discoveries at A1(M) upgrade site, UK.
- This Anglo-Saxon cave dwelling may have been home to an English king who became a saint
- Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong
- New Aspects Related To Plant Processing Revealed At Çatalhöyük
- 7,500 year old painting depicting honey gathering found in Spain
- A rainstorm reveals Iron Age coins in London
- The many myths about the term “Anglo-Saxon”
- An 8000 year old musical instrument found in Turkey
- Roman coins found in the Netherlands
- 25,000 human, bison and wolf DNA found in Georgian cave
- This 3,100-Year-Old Inscription May Be Linked to a Biblical Judge
- Statue of a God found at Vindolanda fort
- Medieval French coins found in Poland
- Two Kouros Statues Found At The Temple Of Zeus Lepsinos At Euromos In SW Turkey
- Medieval Islamic tombs in Sudan were laid out like galaxies
- Memorial Tomb of Ancient Greek Astronomer Aratus Unearthed in Turkey
- Petition to return the 6000 year old Karpathos Lady to Greece
- Longest Known Continuous Record Of The Paleozoic Discovered In Yukon Wilderness
- Seventh-Century BC Artifacts Found in Lesvos Archaeological Dig
- A Greco-Roman pottery workshop found in Egypt
- Houses found near Germany’s Bronze Age wood henge
- Were the Neanderthals artists?
- Neanderthals may have created the world’s oldest cave art
- The true age of the Cerne Abbas giant may have been established
- Nesher Ramla Homo – a new species
- Anglo-Saxon identity was cultural and linguistic, not genetic
- A massive Medieval Nubian cathedral found
- Archaeologists find that the Holy Land’s 1.5 million-year-long human presence still has secrets to reveal.
- A 2000 year old building opens to the public in Jerusalem
- Brooklyn museum returns pre-Hispanic artworks to Costa Rica
- A Hellenistic sanctuary discovered in Bulgaria
- Analyzing ancient animal remains
- Early humans were sheltered from past super volcano eruptions
- Pressure Grows On UK To Hand Back ‘Elgin’ Marbles After Scottish Decision
- After Routing De Soto, Chickasaws Repurposed Spanish Objects For Everyday Use
- Solving a mystery about desert rock carvings
- The silver trade from the Trojan war to the Roman republic
- 200 Medieval burials found in Wales
- Making a harp (video)
- History of the Uillean pipes
- Weights and measures in the Bronze Age
- Yet another theory on how Stonehenge stones were moved
- Efforts to shore up Offa’s Dyke in the UK
- Make oxtail soup like a Viking (video)
- A Neolithic settlement off the Croatian coast
- Ancient jewelry has a modern fan base
- Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals
More… - The oldest known war memorial
- A beautiful sandstone relief found at Vindolanda
July 2021
- Lady of Cao: the woman who changed the history of Ancient Peru
- “Golden orbs” found under Mayan pyramid
- The oldest shoe found in Northern Germany
- Fairytales could go back 5000 years or more (video)
- Domestic Dwellings At Çatalhöyük Would Have Failed Modern Air Quality Tests
- Tunnels under the Roman Colosseum now restored for viewing
- Make your own Neolithic dagger (video)
- Decapitated remains from the Roman era found in UK
- A large prehistoric village found near Stonehenge
- Iron Age replica log boat made by volunteers
- A votive pool from the Bronze Age
- The history of metallurgy in India
- The astrolabe was the original smart phone
- A New History Changes the Balance of Power Between Ethiopia and Medieval Europe
- Dinosaurs were in decline before the asteroid hit
- The ancient Greek oracle at Delphi
- Music of the Viking era
- 5000 year old patient zero for bubonic plague found in Latvia
- Use of tobacco tells the tale of diverse Native American societies
- Turkey leg bones from 3,620 years ago may have been tattooing needles
- Teotihuacán damaged by prohibited construction
- The Magical and Macabre Human-Canine Story
- Coins from the English black Death period found
- Saudi geologists find a 37 million year old whale in the desert
- A 4,400 year old serpent staff that may have been used by a shaman
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More… - The oldest wine in Europe was just discovered – in Greece
- Another lost human species discovered – in China – “Dragon Man”
More… - Stonehenge may go on UNESCO danger list if tunnel goes through
More… - What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age?
- Medieval, Roman artefacts found in Gloucestershire, UK
- Movement, migrations – a deep history of the British landscape
- Ancient Greek pyramids
- Ancient peoples collected and saved loved ones mundane objects
- Underwater archaeology in Switzerland
- A Gallo-Roman sanctuary discovered in Brittany
- New Geochemical Study Confirms Cause Of End-Permian Mass Extinction Event
- Dinosaurs once nested in the Arctic
- Tradition Of Keeping Mementos In Memory Of Loved Ones Dates Back At Least 2,000 Years
- An ancient Inca breast plate is returned to Peru
- Kurgans, burial places throughout the ages
- Sediment from Denisovan cave in Altai yields new evidence
- Being Anglo-Saxon was based on language and culture, not genetics
- A new type of homo discovered in Israel
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More… - Summer Solstice in the Boyne Valley (video)
- Roman camp from NW Iberia found
- The ancient Maya kept tropical forest plants around their water reservoirs
- How ancient peoples fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs
- Sheela-na-gigs in Kerry (paper)
- Farmer Stumbles Onto Egyptian Pharaoh’s 2,600-Year-Old Stone Slab
- New evidence from the Egyptian third intermediary period 1070 B.C.E. to 664 B.C.E
- 2800 year old castle found in Turkey
- Homo sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed in the Negev
- What it means to be human
- Genes we share with Neanderthals
- Viking textiles found in woman’s grave
- Bronze Age Scandinavian trading networks
- Why did Medieval Europeans reopen graves?
- Herbalism in Medieval England (video)
- Great pyramid void needs to be examined – possible treasures are still hidden there
- Ancient religious depiction of the Underworld found in Turkey – Hittite cosmology
More… - Bronze Age homes discovered in Germany
- Plague victims were not always dumped into mass graves
- Extinct giant rhino found in China was largest mammal of all time
- The Picts in Orkney
- Roman era statue of a woman found in Turkey
- 800 stolen artefacts recovered in Italy
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- Inside the tombs of Saqqara
- Neanderthal DNA reveals family ties
- The mountain capitol of the Dacians
- Ancient Gaulish Celtic culture (video)
- Ancient amulet found in Israel may have been protection against curses
- A 7000 year old seal found in Israel
- The British Museum is full of looted items
- Maori were in Antarctica as early as the 7th century
- Pointy Medieval shoes that caused painful bunions
- Pottery finds in Orkney
- The Great Serpent Mound
- The Picts in the North (video)
- Veterans will build a Celtic round house at Butser Farm
- Were the Romans ever in Ireland? (Italian video with English subtitles)
- Bronze Age wooden structure linked to ritual activity
- Prehistoric antiquities of the Iron Age (paper)(Ireland)
- Viking era relatives reunited in death
- How would Odysseus’ bow fare compared to a modern one?
- The real paleo diet – Neanderthals ate their greens
- Viking was a job description – has nothing to do with DNA
- Ancient necropolis unearthed in Croatia
- The largest dinosaur ever unearthed in Australia
- A 2000 year old Roman basilica unearthed in Israel
- The difference between Danish, Norse and Swedish Vikings (video)
- The pierced skull of a Pleistocene cave bear found in Russia
- Slavery in Roman Age Britain
- Pictish stones reimagined in color
- Iron Age chickens lived longer, were sacred animals, not food items
- Castle Hill henge, Scotland (or is it a fort?) (or a ceremonial structure?)
- Excavations at Rhynie – a Pictish power center (paper)
- Top 10 Greek archaeological discoveries of 2020
- Elk tooth jingles on prehistoric dancers
- Underwater archaeology yields finds
- Archaeological site in Co. Kerry damaged by developers.
- Frozen wooden box from the Viking age found on a mountain pass
- Listening to Stonehenge
June 2021
- Stone Age raves to the beat of elk tooth rattles
- 1,400-Year-Old Remains Of Elite Young Woman Discovered In Tingambato, Michoacán Analysed
- Was Norway’s Stavanger Cathedral built on a Viking settlement?
- Aurochs DNA from Iberia examined
- New evidence for when humans came to the Americas – 30,000 years ago
- Seeking Viking ship burials
- Make a Mesolithic knife (video)
- Who were the ancient Celts?
- Irish septs (video)
- Capital punishment in Roman Britain; decapitated burials found
- Childhood in the Roman empire
- How did humans learn to count?
- Amazonian rock art from as far back as the Pleistocene
- The softer side of saber toothed tigers
- 30,000 year old petroglyphs studied in Portugal
- Brehon Law when Ireland was stateless (video)
- Earliest brooches from the Iron Age (paper)
- The Galloway Hoard goes on exhibit in Scotland
- A rare Anglo-Saxon cross freed of its grime
- Ancient Greek cursing jar contained a chicken
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- The Picts (video)
- Secrets of an Iron Age fort in Kerry
- Figurative rock art found in Scotland for the first time
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- Medieval buckles from Norfolk and elsewhere
- Finding the first flower from northwest China
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- The oldest gold objects ever discovered in Germany
- A talk on early law (video)
- Iron Age burials from Scotland (paper)
- Petrified forest, animal fossils found in California
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- Tin mines and Bronze Age Europe
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- Archaeology of the Kosher laws
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- The Paleozoic era culminated 251.9 million years ago in the most severe mass extinction known
- Some Viking ship burials examined
- Entire genome of a 35,000 year old woman from Romania has been sequenced
- Vikings used Northumbria camp as a place to launch a war against the Picts
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- As the Taliban rises, uncertainty looms for Afghanistan’s treasures
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- The race to save the world’s oldest cave art
- Philippine cave art dated for the first time
- Ancient horses moved from Eurasia to the Americas and back via the Bering land bridge
- Expanding deserts drove animals out of Eurasia and into Africa
- Prehistoric farmers grew poppies in the Alps
- Meet the extinct Irish Elk
- Stolen fragments of frescoes returned to Pompeii after investigation
- Ancient Native Americans cultivated medicinal plants at Bear’s Ears
- Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery
- New discoveries about Nefertiti
- Ancient women athletes who were glorified
- 250 Rock cut tombs found in Egypt
- Scythian burial mounds of Ukraine
- A 350,000 year old Acheulean site in Saudi Arabia found
- Ancient Harappa “the mother of Indus-Valley civilizations”
- Cattle bone found with Germanic runes on it, in the Czech Republic, causes a stir of controversy
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- Layers of Roman history in Scotland
- Who actually built the pyramids of Egypt?
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- A new species of “talkative” dinosaurs discovered
- Vesuvius victim identified
- Isolated ancient Easter Island may hold lessons for future Mars settlers
- History of Celtic Art
- Farming, metallurgy among Native Americans that pre-dated colonization
- Lesser known stone circles of Britain
- Petroglyphs on the Isle of Arran (video)
- Cerne Abbas Giant may have been carved into hill over 1000 years ago
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More… - Ancient murals on the US-Mexico border are being documented
- 13th century Angkor Wat had more people than modern Boston
- Climate change is hastening erosion of rock art
- Folded sword in Roman burial was part of a Pagan ritual
- Oldest evidence for honey collecting in pots in Africa
- Archaeologist in Los Angeles finds ancient astronomical alignment site
- A shrunken head returned to Ecuador from the USA
- 1500 year old gold offerings to the Gods found in Norway
- Ancient diets and the oral microbiome
- Why did Vikings use down for their beds?
- Russia’s defense minister would like to clone Scythian warriors (really)
- The archaeology of ancient beers and wines
- New dinosaur discovered in Japan is named for a Shinto God
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- Bronze Age money was scrap for cash
- The meaning of color in ancient Ireland
- 9th century Carolingian treasure found in Poland
- Starchy Neanderthal diet may have fueled big brains
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- The origin of humans and ancient ape fossils
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- A 78,000 year old child burial found in Africa
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- A bust of Rome’s first emperor discovered in Italy
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- Barry Cunliffe – the Scythians (video)
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- Rome’s Colosseum to get a new floor
- Mesolithic footprints and a Mesolithic feast (video)
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- Ancient stone structures in Saudi Arabia are older than was thought
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May 2021
- Was North America Populated By ‘Stepping Stone’ Migration Across Bering Sea?
- “Superhighways” of the early Australians mapped
- Statue of Roman emperor reunited with its missing finger
- World’s first pregnant mummy revealed by researchers
- 7000 year old structures may be part of an ancient cattle cult
- Trove of Bronze Age metal jewelry found in Sweden
- Proposed renovations to the Acropolis are very controversial
- The archaeology of pollen
- Possibly the worlds oldest depiction of a boat is found in Norway
- A Viking ritual site inside an Icelandic cave
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- 110 ancient tombs found in Egypt
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- A second ancient log boat found in the Boyne via drone!
- A new exhibit of Nubian art and civilization opens in St. Louis
- Oldest evidence for human activity and tool making comes from an African cave
- A new perspective on archaic human genomes
- When Chauvet Cave Artists Created Its Artwork, The Pont D’Arc Was Already There
- Cunliffe: Who were the Celts? (video)
- Africa’s first Iron Age culture
- New finds in Macedonia
- Recently found Roman site in England vandalized
- The woman of the Burren; Clare’s earliest farmers
- Did early ape-like hominids evolve in Europe and then migrate to Africa?
- Was Stonehenge built using Pythagorean math?
- Rome celebrates its 2774th birthday
- A Celtic ornament found in Norway, part of a Viking treasure hoard
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- An early Neolithic quern stone found in Orkney
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- A Bronze Age village found under lake Lucerne
- A 5000 year old fingerprint found in Orkney
- Extracting DNA from prehistoric bear poop
- Genes show why Homo Sapiens overtook Neanderthals
- Europe was re-colonized after the Ice Age earlier than was thought
- Cracking the code of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Grave of a Gothic warrior from Greece
- Looted antiquities returned to Afghanistan
- New Stonehenge theories
- Diet of peoples of the ancient Hungarian plain
- 4000 year old untouched tomb found on Dingle, Ireland
- London mudlarks unearth treasures in the Thames
- A Bronze Age tomb found near Silbury Hill
- New evidence that early human ancestor Little Foot clung to trees
- 3-D scanning brings new insights to Culloden battlefield
- A Roman era gladiator arena uncovered in Turkey
- Swans as ritual objects in Eastern Europe; Bronze Age to Iron Age
- Skills were determined by sex in the Neolithic
- 11th century Viking ruins on display in Dublin
- Evolution of Viking metalwork – 8th – 9th century
- Smuggled pre-Hispanic artifacts returned to Mexico
- Climate and ancient societies
- Early humans had dogs in Saudi Arabia
- Avebury’s first stone avenue
- An Iron Age weapons hoard found in Germany
- A stone age house recreated using only ancient style tools and materials
- The history of human migration to Britain
- New connections found between Mesoamerican civilizations
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- Legacy of the Knights Templar in Cyprus
- Neanderthal footprints discovered in Spain
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- The oldest story ever told? (video)
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- A new human migration into Europe identified
- Covid lockdowns have sparked antiquities looting in Turkey
- Why were ancient Egyptians cat obsessed?
- Revelations about the oldest known cave paintings
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- An untouched tomb found in Kerry
- Bulgaria plans to rebuild a statue of colossus of Apollo
- Stonehenge updates
- A slab depicting marching Greek warriors found in Bulgaria
- Study confirms age, location of one of the oldest Homo Erectus fossils
- Boomerangs were once used for hunting, fighting
- Honey hunting in ancient west Africa
- Sexual division of labor in the early Neolithic
- A wooden safe from an ancient Roman villa in Spain discovered
- Secrets of ancient Salamis
- 12,000 year old human remains found in China
- An interview with Pompeii’s new director
- Some lesser known ancient Greek theaters
- Rathcroghan – an early royal site in Ireland (paper)
- A Welsh treasure trove unearthed by metal detectorists
- A new linear B electronic portal
- Druids in history
- Were ancient cave artists were starved of oxygen while painting?
- Off duty cops in Italy find a looted statue
- The Middle Stone Age is West Africa – new findings
- Ancient farmhouse found in Israel where cereal was made
- Ancient bones found in Guernsey
- Kinellan Crannog
- Who were the Celts?
- Ancient Jurassic era flying reptiles had opposable thumbs
- Two new species of mammalian ancestors discovered in China
- Archaeologists announce an Egyptian “Pompeii”
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- The modern human brain evolved in Africa 1.7 million years ago
- Medieval Irish dress and accessories (paper)
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- Ancient Maltese temple threatened by apartment block construction
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- New discoveries at Hadrian’s wall
- Middle Neolithic village with engraved stones found in France
- Medieval gold seal shows an elephant
- Reconstructing and preserving Norway’s stave churches
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- A Roman era pottery production center uncovered in Poland
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- Viking age gold and other objects from Irish watery deposits (paper)
- Egyptian Pharaohs go on parade (video)
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- Ancient DNA technology breakthrough is rewriting human history
- Britain is illegally holding Jordanian stone age statues
- An Egyptian scarab amulet found in Israel
- Ancient medicine + activities for children
- A 2,600 year old Egyptian murder mystery solved
- 12,000 year old wooden sculpture re-writes human history
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- An Ogham stone in the Black Valley (paper)
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- Curule chair found in a Roman grave
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- Sunken cities and settlements
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- UK university will return a Benin sculpture to Africa
- Libyan sites threatened by land development, looting
- Excavations at a 5000 year old site in Turkey resume
April 2021
- A massive ceremonial landscape identified in Scotland
- Bronze Age miners received take-out food
- Writing on sheepskin helped early lawyers to prevent fraud
- Warrior’s down bedding in a grave eased the transition to the afterlife
- Origin and uniqueness of the Basques
- Origin and decline of the Scythians
- World’s earliest stone tools could date back 2.6 million years
- Moundville – a metropolis of Mississippian culture
- Polish farmer stumbles upon a 4000 year old cemetery
- Scientists reconstruct 700 year old faces from Edinburgh
- Welsh rabbits kick up ancient finds
- Temple of the Peruvian Spider God of rain and fertility
- The Black Death rampaged across the world a century earlier than was thought
- Early human tools are far older than was thought
- Facial Reconstruction May Depict Pharaoh Akhenaten
- Ancient Megafaunal Mutualisms & Extinctions as Factors in Plant Domestication
- Wealth inequality among the Maya
- Earliest evidence for dog domestication in Arabia
- Evidence for an ancient drought in Egypt
- The ethics of using ancient DNA to rewrite history
- Cuneiform tablets found
- A Biblical era “magic hand” carving found in the kingdom of Judah
- Pömmelte, the German Stonehenge
- New evidence emerges about the Denisovans
- A 700 year old Medieval meme
- A 3000 year old gold mask, silk, bronze wear found in China
- What is a “Barbarian”?
- Sudan’s forgotten pyramids
- Guam government won’t share information about burials found in an American military base
- The oldest wooden sculpture known to history
- Ancient Mayan salt cakes
- Underwater shell middens offer clues to past history of drowned coastlines
- A flying shark fossil discovered
- Ancient cities collapsed due to overpopulation and climate change
- Evidence for an Iron Age feast that featured periwinkles
- Native American copper use re-dated
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- The mystery of ancient Scottish rock art balls
- Biblical scroll may be 2,700 years old
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- Diocletian’s palace examined
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- Did a pre-human live in Greece that is older than African species?
- The Ancient Diolkos Of Corinth Undergoing Restoration
- Stolen art hiding in museums
- A Roman road discovered in Flanders
- Zeus temple in Greece to be restored
- A Greek bull figurine discovered
- The Girl of Gran Dolina
- An ancient Australian tool made with kangaroo bone
- Dinosaur fossil found incubating eggs in a nest
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- An 11,700 year old skeleton from Navarra, Spain
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- The history of ancient Egyptian beer production is being rewritten
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- 3-D reconstructions of Medieval faces
- Analysis of a Crannog in Lough Derravaragh
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- Hominids braved frigid temperatures with little or no fire in the Pleistocene
- Britain claims ownership of the Elgin marbles. Again.
A response… - A 2,700 year old Phoenician ship wreck to be extracted from the sea bed
- Roman mosaic that was being used as a coffee table returned to Nemi
- New theories about the Pyramid at Giza
- The Stonehenge tunnel controversy continues
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- A Roman double burial in Gloucester
- Mysterious Native American cogged stones
- Hoard of gold, silver and coins found in Israel
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- Ancient stone tools found in Turkey
- Four lost ancient cities
- A Roman road found in Gloucester, UK, city center
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- Mysterious gold figures found in Sweden
- A massacre from 6,200 years ago in Croatia is analyzed
- A 4000 year old Iberian woman ruler’s grave
- Woolly Mammoths and humans may have lived together in New England
- Fermented dyes kept carpet red for thousands of years
- Human footprints from Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic found in a Spanish cave
- The use of domestic space in early Medieval round houses (paper)
- Neanderthals disappeared from Belgium earlier than thought
- People battled sea level rise even in the Neolithic
- An ancient female carved image found in the Negev desert
- An ancient Greek helmet found near Israel
- We mammals are very similar to Earth’s first creatures – evidence shows
- A 10,500 year old hazelnut gives clues to life in ancient Scotland
- Ancient Egyptian crocodile mummies
- An early Christian relic found in Britain (at Vindolanda)
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- Cheddar man, Britain (video)
- Pictish book with earliest example of written Gaelic comes home
- Heroic women of ancient Greece
- Mary Queen of Scots (video)
- New discoveries still being made at Pompeii
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- A geologist and a businessman changed the face of time
- Feces slinging ensues over Biblical toilet in Israel
- Early human ancestors – facial reconstructions
- Anglo Saxon finds in Cambridge, England
- Origin of domestic dogs in SW Germany
- Archaeologists Solve Mystery of 5,600-Year-Old Skull Found in Italian Cave
- The world’s oldest pet cemetery?
- A megalithic cemetery in Poland
- Did a Viking woman named Gudrid reach North America 500 years before Columbus?
- New details about Little Foot’s life revealed
- The Bahamas were settled earlier than was thought
- A new dinosaur species identified – “twice the size of a double decker bus”
- A shift in consciousness about the demise of the Neanderthals
- Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted for longer than was thought
- Hominid footprints found in Greece could be older than anything African. Maybe.
- Malta’s prehistoric menu
- Vindolanda temple found
- Henry VIII castle falls into the sea after a storm
- Neanderthals could understand human speech based on their morphology
- The human brain developed as a result of the extinction of larger mammals
- Greek scientists find a 20 million year old tree
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March 2021
- Beautifully designed ancient Roman woman’s shoe found in a well
- The nun’s church at Clonmacnoise has a Sheela na Gig
- First recorded tier list from ancient Rome
- Lost villages of Warwickshire
- A Bronze Age spearhead found in Jersey
- Building 4-D historical maps
- A large Pompeii fresco restored
- New details about Egyptian mummification found in a medical papyrus
- Hidden scenes in Etruscan paintings revealed
- A 4-wheeled ceremonial chariot found in Pompeii
- The new oldest human primate ancestor that lived alongside the dinosaurs
- Skara Brae women archaeologists who were written out of history
- A 10th century Buddhist monastery unearthed in India
- Roman villa and Iron Age houses found in England
- A Mesolithic encampment unearthed in Wales
- The Louvre gives casts of three marble reliefs depicting the God Apollo and the Three Graces to Greek island of Thasos
- Genomic insights into the origin of prehistoric populations in East Asia
- Egyptian art depicts an extinct goose
- 1,800 year old Roman era sarcophagi found in Israel
- 360,000 year old cave bear genome deciphered
- Amber gives evidence for ancient environments
- Australia’s oldest rock painting is a kangaroo
- Vikings in Poland
- Ancient Britons favored mullets and moustaches
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- A stolen Romanian Viking helmet recovered
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- Cracking linear A
- Ancient relic with an engraved phallus found in British road project
- Islamic 12th century bath house found in a Sevillian Tapas bar
- Hundreds of Mesolithic tools found in the UK
- Viking finds from Isle of Man declared a treasure
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- The oldest DNA yet sequenced comes from million year old Mammoths
- Climate change, not overhunting, likely caused the decline of America’s megafauna
- A huge ancient fossil fish discovered by accident
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- Is this another Skara Brae?
- Women and art in Medieval Ireland
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- Gate of Cyrus the Great uncovered
- Is this an 18,000 year old wind instrument?
- A Scythian necropolis found in Crimea
- “Venus” figurines re-examined
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- Greek Gods and Mortals, terracotta figurines found in Turkey
- A rare mud carapace treatment of Egyptian mummies explored
- Mexico seeks to halt artefact auction at Christies
- Archaeology at Caernarvon castle, Wales
- Roman burials found inside Vatican City
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- A broch has been repaired in Scotland
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- What the Swiss ate during the bronze Age
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February 2021
- The history of Saint Brighid and Saint Patrick is rife with politics
- Metal detectorist finds a lost piece of Henry VIII’s crown
- Society of Antiquaries fights for a home for its collections
- A late-Neolithic group burial in France
- Early Medieval treasures found in the UK
- An Anglo-Saxon artefact found
- SeaHenge in Norfolk, England, a Bronze Age circle revealed
- Linear A and Linear B are now linked in groundbreaking study
- An early Bronze Age necropolis unearthed in Brittany
- How opposable thumbs may have shaped human evolution
- A French archaeologist has deciphered 4,400 year old Iranian writing
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- Pompeii museum opens with a dazzling display
- The British Museum to feature a display on the murder of Thomas Becket
- An Anglo-Saxon cemetery and settlement in Northamptonshire
- Early humans used chopping tools to break bones and consume marrow
- Human sized Mayan mask found in Mexico
- A Roman villa found in Spain
- First people in the Americas brought their dogs with them
- Climate change in antiquity: mass emigration due to water scarcity
- A Late Archaic Greek temple was located in a central spot of the sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia
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- Insight about Vindolanda and Hadrian’s Wall
- How many early human species have existed on Earth?
- Ancient Greek female statues unearthed near Athens
- Exploring the Stonehenge landscape
- An exceptional Gallo-Roman child’s burial found
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- The Glendalough labyrinth stone
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- A 5000 year old crystal dagger found in Iberia
- A massive stone age ritual site found on a Scottish island
- Perfectly preserved Roman-era wine barrels found in Reims reveal ancient coopers’ art
- Burial practices point to an interconnected early Medieval Europe
- Sutton Hoo and the twin altars of king Raedwald
- Viking Exhibit, British Museum (video)
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- New archaeology for the Anthropocene era
- Geo-radar reveals Viking burials in Norway
- Roman-era shipwreck found in Greece
- Roman-era coins discovered in Poland
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- Contents of ancient Mayan drug containers
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- Microscopy images of ancient artifacts yields secrets
- The ancient Orkney site where Picts and Vikings settled now under threat from pandemic
- Iron Age skeletons found in the UK
- How Viking marauders saved Ireland
- Grave of a Sultan who defeated the Crusaders found
- The oldest art in the world (found so far) is from Indonesia, 45,000 years ago
- Elk tooth ornaments were prominent in the Stone Age
- The Danelaw of ancient Britain (video)
- Searching for the people of Doggerland
- An Anglo-Saxon settlement and graveyard uncovered in Northamptonshire
- Caligula’s gardens go on view to the public
- World’s first dinosaur found sitting on a clutch of eggs with embryos inside
- Mexican farmers find a statue of a woman (or Goddess?) while digging in a citrus grove
- New insights from the original Domesday book
- A Viking village (video)
- Viking Age cooking (video)
- A temple of Aphrodite found in Turkey
- Pompeii mosaic of Alexander the great to be restored
- A tombstone inscribed in ancient Greek found in Israel
- Thousands of stolen antiquities recovered by Israeli authorities
- Why southern Corinth in Greece attracts smugglers
- Pictish engravings on wood
- How dinosaurs may have helped to spread seeds
- Rock found in a woman’s garden turns out to be a Roman carving
- The cisterns of a Turkish “Mother Goddess City”
- Who invented the alphabet?
- A Viking age ship burial was found in Norway
More… - An Iron Age settlement found in the UK
- A Roman road uncovered in Northumberland, UK
- Golf course built on top of a Hopewell mound is subject of a lawsuit
- How did grandmothers influence human evolution?
January 2021
- Archaeologists find the tomb of one of the last Han emperors
- 350,000 year old stone grinding tool found in Israel is oldest ever discovered
- Will Nefertiti ever be returned to Egypt?
- A well preserved Ice Age woolly rhino found in Siberia
- A Scythian warrior burial turns out to be a 14 year old girl
- Take a virtual tour of Emperor Augustus’ mausoleum
- A 3,800 year old baby skeleton in a jar found in Israel
- Top fascinating finds in 2020
- The top 10 discoveries about early hominids in 2020
- 2000 pilfered archaeological treasures found by customs agents in Serbia
- The Gundesrup and Chiemsee cauldrons
- 3,500-year-old tomb in NW China indicates sun worship
- Police seize three Roman sarcophagi in Tunisia
- Workers uncover a Roman mosaic in Baalbek
- Sanctuary of Apollo at Pera Oreinis-Fragkissa in Lefkosia located
- Switzerland returns 2800 year old smuggled art to Iran
- The coolest ancient weapons found in 2020
- DNA study of the original Caribbean islanders
- A newly found Pictish stone goes on exhibit for the first time
- Grooved ware and passage tombs in Ireland (paper)
- Art in Iron Age Ireland (paper)
- Is this a paleolithic calendar?
- Italy to rebuild the floor of the Coliseum in Rome
- Temple of Hephaestus in Greece gets a new lighting scheme
- Ancient oil lamp workshop discovered in Israel
- Flemish “archaeological find” turns out to be a stolen French treasure
- Medieval effigy found in an English church
- The reconstructed face of an ancient Peruvian woman
- Uncovering an ancient wood henge in Britain
- Evidence found for an ancient paleo-tsunami in Israel
- Researchers Unearth Ritual Bath Dated to Jesus’s Time Near Garden of Gethsemane
- Mediterranean people ate turmeric, bananas from Asia, 3,700 years ago
- A 57,000 year old mummified wolf pup found in the Yukon
- English Dark Age history (video)
- Neanderthals may have hibernated to survive the winter
- Mystery woman found buried under London street was a Roman elite
- How the ancient Canaanites made counterfeit currencies
- Mesolithic hunters made weapons from human bones
- Understanding the God Mercury (video)
- More…
“The god most closely linked with Cernunnos is Mercury (and recall that Pan too is a son of Mercury). They are found together in a number of depictions; their roles as guarantors of prosperity were complementary in the eyes of the Gauls. This is still more the case in light of Mercury’s role as psychopomp (the guide of departed souls into the Otherworld) and Cernunnos as an underworld deity…. “ - Practical archaeology – how to cook venison and bison feet
- A looted statue of the Goddess Cybele is returned to Turkey
- A French looter is caught with almost 30,000 priceless archaeological artifacts
More… - Winter Solstice at Newgrange (video)
- Otzi the Iceman may have lived in an nice free Alpine region
- A new species of dinosaur with proto-feathers
- A new technique allows researchers to see inside a mummy, without unwrapping it
- Is this the site of King Arthur’s battle of Camlann?
- The Hallstatt Celts (video)
- Ancient artifacts from the Great Pyramid at Giza found in a cigar box in Scotland
- Ceremonial mace heads from Orkney Neolithic burials
More… - When the dinosaurs disappeared, forests thrived
- DNA is rewriting the 9000 year old history of corn (maize)
- Climate change caused the demise of Central Asia’s river civilizations, not Genghis Khan
- Ancient mummified baboons and the lost land of Punt
- A Pictish settlement in Scotland
- The Galloway Viking Hoard
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More… - Evidence for Neolithic textiles at the Ness of Brodgar
- A temple of Zeus in Syria – some new discoveries
- A Tudor gold coin hoard found in a family’s garden
- A bronze Celtic statue with golden eyes found in Slovakia
- Mysterious carvings from inside Newgrange
- Israel unveils buried parts of King Herod’s palace
- A Roman head of Venus unearthed in Italy
- A Neolithic village off the coast of Israel explored
- A vast network of ancient Amazon rainforest villages seen from the air
- An ancient Egyptian hoard of counterfeit “dirty money” unearthed
- A 5,000 year old cranial trauma in Iberia examined
- A Romano-Celtic temple-mausoleum in Britain
- A Phoenician defensive moat unearthed in Spain
- A 3,500 year old mass burial found in Cyprus
- Evidence for hospice care among the ancient Pueblo natives
- Mexican “tower of skulls” yields more ancient remains
- Folklore associated with ancient stone circles in Kerry and Cork, Ireland (paper)
- A 5000 year old site in England is defaced by vandals
More… - Proof that there was once a Shangri-la type ecosystem in central Tibet
- New evidence that Neanderthals buried their dead
- The “Hobbit” and the timeline of human evolution
- How warm oceans helped the migration from Asia to the Americans during the Ice Age
- Indus Valley civilization were heavy meat eaters, evidence shows
- Evidence that the Roman way of life persisted into the 5th century in Wales
More… - A temple of the God Pan found under a Byzantine church in Israel
More: Altar to the Greek God Pan found in a Byzantine church - Denisovan DNA found in a Tibetan cave
- Secrets of the Carnyx (video)
- Full video
- Was there mineral extraction in the Highlands in prehistoric times?
- Making a fish hook and fishing line the old way (video)
- New surprises about who colonized the Americas
- Neanderthals had dental issues, just like us
- Roman bribery and corruption exposed
- Dinosaurs thrived in snow
- How to make a torc (video)
- Bust of a priest of Zeus unearthed in Greece
- Study: it was climate that drowned Doggerland
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More… - African trade routes and Medieval glass beads
- Eight ancient Hellenistic and Classical graves unearthed in the Peloponnese
- A 6th century Roman kiln found in Bulgaria
- A Germanic Celtic tomb from 600 BC is uncovered
- A female Viking era grave with beads and brooches found in Norway
- Norway excavates a Viking longship
- Largest Viking DNA study yields surprising results
- A theory about prehistoric Venus figurines
- A Viking silver hoard found in Sweden
- Iron Age replicas – (videos)
- Peering inside two Egyptian mummies for the first time since 1615
- Twelve ancient places around the world
- Roman military headquarters found in Serbia
- African Ife art returned to Nigeria from the Netherlands
- Ancient rock paintings discovered in the Amazon region
- Protecting the painted walls of Pompeii
- The Carnyx (video)
- Mammalian hairs and dinosaur feathers discovered preserved in amber
- Ancient People Relied On Coastal Environments To Survive The Last Glacial Maximum
- Neanderthal Thumbs Better Adapted To Holding Tools With Handles
- Genetic Study Reveals Neanderthals Could Tolerate Smoke
- First Exhaustive Review Of Fossils Recovered From Iberian Archaeological Sites
- Lost crops of ancient Eastern North America
- Is this the earliest human ancestor?
December 2020
- The Lady of Baza may be an Iberian Goddess (Tanit)
- Melting snow in Norway reveals ancient arrows
- Why did Greenland’s Vikings vanish?
- Swedish Viking runestones, in pictures
- Why the thriving ancient civilization on Malta collapsed
- Understanding the Stonehenge landscape
- Was Newgrange built so that the Dog Star Sirius shone in the light box at Winter Solstice?
- The Medieval Irish Dindshenchas (video)
- The Dindshenchas and Newgrange (video)
- An ancient blanket made with 11,500 turkey feathers
- Hegra, an ancient city in Saudi Arabia
- A lost manuscript is found hidden under 15th century text
- What did Old Norse sound like? (video)
- Technical report on a dig in Cookstown, County Meath, Ireland
- Stone circles of Wales
- A Chalcolithic clay mask is found in Bulgaria
- Ancient Egyptian temple reveals previously unknown star constellations
- Egypt Recovers Late Period Relief From New York
- Secrets of a mummy’s portrait
- Ancient Puebloans melted cave ice to survive mega-droughts
- Take a virtual tour of a stone circle in Scotland not seen for 4000 years
- How the Medieval transition to feudal living affected ecosystems
- A Medieval soldier with weapons found at the bottom of a Lithuanian lake
- Figurines of Demeter, Persephone found in Russia
More.. - Benin west African art treasures are being returned
- A female Neolithic skeleton in Germany offers clues to diet, lifestyle
- Mushroom hunter unearths a gorgeous Bronze Age sword
- Did a 1 million year rainstorm end the Triassic?
- Newgrange and the Cygnus enigma
- Iron Age crafting at Tara
- 100 sarcophagi, statues, found in Saqqara, Egypt
More: The mummy count keeps growing - 30 members of the European Parliament ask England to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece
- Switzerland returns stolen artefacts to Italy
- Ancient burial chambers are found in Turkey
- Underwater archaeology in Tunis
- The oldest Celtic text in the world? (video)
- The next round in the Nebra Sky Disc dispute
- An Iron Age grave discovered in Norway
- Tartessos, the western Celts of Iberia (video)
- Skeleton of a Medieval monkey found in Basel
- Treasure Hunters Unearth Ancient Sarcophagi In Hellenistic City Of Aphrodisias
- A Greek God’s bust is found in downtown Athens
More: the head may be Hermes
More… - Original pigments of a 2000 year old Egyptian temple revealed
- A stone-age mega-henge in Dorset
- A Pictish fort in Aberdeenshire, Scotland (vimeo)
- A fort from the time of Biblical King David discovered in the Golan Heights
- 31,000 year old identical twins buried in Iberia
- Barry Cunliffe: Who were the Celts? (video)
- Ancient gold coins found in Jerusalem
- Archaeologists finally peer inside Egyptian mummies first found in 1615
- Stonehenge bypass tunnel gets green light – archaeological artefacts will be destroyed
More… - Why the Stonehenge tunnel plan is so controversial
- Stonehenge – history and archaeology
- Evolutionary changes in an extinct human species
- First known case of TB in Britain came from continental Europe
- Jousting Yard where Henry XIII was knocked unconscious found 5 feet underground
- Neolithic construction boom led to mega henges
- Ancient burial of a female hunter found in Peru
- The Viking slave trade
- Dogs and their humans evolved together
- A Pictish site in Shetland
- A Bronze Age sword found in the Czech Republic
- A hidden 12th century “selfie” discovered in a Spanish cathedral
- Denisovan DNA found in Tibet
- Neanderthal children grew and were weaned like homo sapiens
- Seal of Apollo found in Jerusalem
- The First Book of Breathing – an ancient Egyptian text re-interpreted
- Mexico has asked the Vatican to apologize for its role in the Spanish conquest, seeks return of indigenous treasures
- Tiny homes of the Celtic world (video)
- Four submerged Medieval settlements identified in Holland
- How humans in ancient Turkey dealt with climate change
- How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world
- A Medieval bridge found under the Teviot river in Scotland
- Ancient Egyptian inks reveal writing practices on papyri
- Giant fossil birds had a 21 foot wing span
- Iberian bison engravings show a common art style all over Europe in the Paleolithic
- DNA study traces canine diversity to the Ice Age
More,,, - Denisovan DNA in the genome of East Asians
- Medieval Book of Lismore returns to Ireland
- The ancient Cailleach stones of Scotland were moved on Samhuinn (Halloween)
- A Roman fortress in Bulgaria
- A Roman bath is revealed
- Viking history beneath the floor of a Dublin supermarket
November 2020
- The Aquatic water cult in Irish pre-history
- Ancient Greeks voted to kick politicians out of Athens, if they didn’t like them
- The Goddess Bast (video)
- Understanding prehistoric fire use
- Ancient Mayans built sophisticated water filters
- Clovis points were only made in a 300 year period
- A skull shows evidence of brain surgery 5000 years ago
- Vandal attacks at Berlin museums
- The ritual significance of a Mayan sweat bath
- Scientists Find Medieval Plague Outbreaks Picked Up Speed Over 300 Years
- Rhinoceros and bison once roamed the Tibetan Plateau
- New investigations of a South African rock shelter
- Bronze Age herders did not move much (more evidence that ideas travelled but people didn’t)
- The First Book Of Breathing: A New Assessment Based On An Edition Of Papyrus FMNH 31324
- Ancient Iroquois woodland village found in Ontario
- How early humans adapted to climate change
- Teen metal detectorists find 1000 year old coins
- Melting Alpine glaciers keep revealing treasures but “it’s an archaeological emergency”
- A lost Medieval friary is found under a UK parking garage
- A 3-D rendering of a cave filled with Witch marks
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- Earliest known dairy production was in India, evidence shows
- Another trove of ancient coffins found in Saqqara, Egypt
- A 2000 year old snake altar found in Turkey
- A new Nazca animal has been discovered – this time it’s a cat
- An Anglo-Saxon warlord’s grave found in the UK by metal detectorists
- New dating results for two paleolithic sites in France
- Societies collapse when leaders undermine social values and contracts (kind of like what Trump has been trying to do?)
- Sheela-na-gig figures in Ireland
- Mesolithic exhibit opens in UK
- The Celtic triskelion examined
- Baby tyrannosaurus rex fossils found
- The Celtic Pantheons of Hispania
- Ancient European hunters stayed in the frozen north rather than migrating to warmer areas
- A Medieval cistern is preserved under a supermarket
- An early Medieval town found in Bulgaria
- When Queen Catherine of Aragon led England’s armies against Scotland
- Human foot prints from 11,000 years ago in New Mexico track an adult and toddler’s trip
- Central Asian riders played ball games 3000 years ago
- The Gaulish God Esus
- Tourist returns stolen artefacts from Pompeii
- Ancient Egyptian coffin opened for the first time in 2,600 years
- Turkey seizes ancient and modern seeds from a British institute
- Secrets of Lismore Castle, Ireland
- Well of the White Cow, County Meath, Ireland (video)
- Trowel Archaeology Journal tenth edition (featuring Irish Archaeology)
- Dutch museums agree to return stolen colonial art
- Place names and the God Lugh in Gaul (France)
- Celtic Healing Goddesses
- Does this Viking grave hold a mother and son?
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- Five Rare Silver Coins Returned To Greece From Munich And Zurich
- Ancient Roman villa discovered under an apartment complex
- Newborn Neanderthals Had A Robust And Broad Thoracic Cage Just Like The Adult One
- Who were the Druids? (Very comprehensive but why are all the illustrations of men with beards? We have plenty of evidence for female Druids, and most Druids, as a caste, were probably trained by their parents. Female Druids )
- Past Tropical Forest Changes Drove Megafauna And Hominin Extinctions
- Celtic sanctuaries and sacred places
- Ancient cave paintings found in Thailand
- Silk textiles from 1100 CE examined
- Ancient bacteria from cesspits reveal what people ate, parasites they had
- Ancient hominids used fire to make tools
- A colossal statue of Atlas will rise again in Sicily
- A 6th century Anglo-Saxon warlord’s grave is found
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- A Viking temple to Thor and Odin is unearthed in Norway
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- Celtic from the West – a lecture by Barry Cunliffe (video)
- New discoveries in a Minoan palace excavation
- Newly documented Australian aboriginal rock art
- The Humanized Gods of Celtic religion
- Ancient Celtic Goddesses
- Statue Of God Nefertum Unearthed In Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis
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And More… - 12,000 years of Iberian cave art
- The oldest homo sapiens in Europe
- Stunning Australian rock art
- 1500-Year-Old Royal Grave Unearthed In Saxony-Anhalt
- Britain To Return Looted 4,000-Year-Old Plaque To Iraq
- Ceramics Uncovered In 3000-Year-Old Trading Network
- Pagan practices in an ancient temple of Hecate at Lagina
October 2020
- How Neanderthals Lost Their Y Chromosome
- Irish Sheela na Gigs – the Kerry Connection
- The hill of Uisneach, Ireland
- Stone age dog may have been buried with its master
- The volcano that shocked Mayan civilization 1590 years ago
- Modern humans reached western Europe 5000 years earlier than was thought
- The use of domestic space in early Medieval round houses
- The only Viking helmet found in the UK
- African heritage sites under threat from climate change
- Oldest Roman body armor found in Germany
- A guide to the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
- Knockdrum ring fort Co. Cork, Ireland
- Zoomorphic Penannular Brooches in 6th and 7th Century Ireland
- A 1,000 year old rune stone found in Sweden
- An Upper Paleolithic site in Iberia
- A 2,500 year old Siberian warrior couple’s grave
- A Greco-Roman seal ring found
- Neanderthal and Denisovan y- chromosome DNA has been sequenced
- New funerary rituals of Iberian Neanderthals discovered
- The face of an ancient Egyptian toddler reconstructed
- Ancient Britons made art from the bones of the deceased
- Archaeologists find a Roman camp in the Netherlands
- A giant, prehistoric marine lizard is renamed
- Chromium steel was first made in Persia, evidence shows
- 13th century bread oven, air freshener found in a Cistercian monastery site
- What we can learn from ancient cookware
- What did ancient Rome look like? (video)
- Belgium Returns 1,000-Year-Old Stolen Mayan Mask To Guatemala
- Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian Gods
- US Congress calls for return of Parthenon marbles to Greece
- The boar headed carnyx of Celtic Europe
- The spread of infectious diseases 4000 years ago
- 14 intact coffins uncovered in Egypt
More… - Mud larking for Roman artefacts in an English stream (video)
- How and when societies collapse (video)
- A new, nicer Nero?
- Human genetics: what makes us human?
- Ancient human footprints found in Saudi Arabia
- Raids and rituals among the Steppe nomads
- An Ice Age cave bear found in melting Siberian permafrost
- What did Fall Equinox mean to a Neolithic astronomer?
- Massive T-Rex skeleton goes on sale in New York
- A new mass extinction event has been identified
- Domestic horses likely did not originate in Anatolia
- A Neanderthal child’s tooth found in Northern Italy
- An Iron Age wine press unearthed in Lebanon
- How dust may have affected ancient civilizations
- Did our ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
- Oxford Museum removes human remains, shrunken heads from displays
- Irish Vikings came from Norway, not Denmark, new DNA study finds
- Research busts myths of the Vikings
- An Anglo-Saxon burial ground uncovered
- Turkish archaeologists to restore a temple of Hecate
- A Celto-Scythian settlement burial complex in Hungary
- Is this Norwegian island the fabled land of Thule?
- When did we become fully “human”? DNA and the evolution of human intelligence.
- Discovering a lost Viking waterway in Orkney
- Europe’s bog bodies are still revealing their secrets
- A rare Roman gaming piece found in the UK
- Metal detectorist unearths 1,150-year-old Viking board game in the UK
- Fingerprints help identify age and sex of prehistoric painters in southern Spain
- Bronze Age hoard unearthed near River Thames goes on display
- A Romano-British roundhouse unearthed
- Norse burials and Emain Macha, some speculations
- Re-Imagining Navan Fort: New Light on the Evolution of a Major Ceremonial Centre in Northern Europe
- From The Seabed, Figures Of An Ancient Goddess Religion
- Londoners were very violent during the Bronze Age, evidence shows
- Facial reconstruction of a 15th century monk revealed
- 2020 Excavation Results At The Sanctuary Poseidon Heliconius In Ancient Helike, Achaea
- Remains of an ancient palace found in Jerusalem
- Did an earthquake destroy this Canaanite palace?
- 400-year-old mummified goat found frozen in Alps by champion skier
- 313 million year old fossilized tracks found in the Grand Canyon
- Face of a young Celtic warrior (aged between 20 and 25), from an early La Tène burial at La Gorge-Meillet (Marne), France. (Reconstruction by Musée d’Archéologie nationale)
- 2020 Excavation Findings At Apollo’s Island Sanctuary On Despotikon
- Ancient hunters stayed in the frozen north even when climate worsened
- The frontal lobes of Homo erectus were proportionately smaller than H. Sapiens
- The oldest central-European Neanderthal DNA
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- A 2,400 year old mask of Dionysus found in Turkey
- A 2,750 year old skeleton of a child with dragon-head bracelets found in Turkey
- 3,400-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablet Found In Turkey’s Hatay
- Drone reveals a large Native American earthwork in Kansas
- 13 sealed coffins unearthed in Saqqara, Egypt
- Drombeg stone circle, C. Cork, Ireland
- MacDuff castle, caves and Pictish art (video)
- Bronze Age burials found in Donegal
- Ancient fort built by a mysterious tribe found on top of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh
- The Chinese were the earliest anatomists
- New evidence shows that climate change caused the fall of Indus Valley civilization
- New dating of the Nebra sky disk
More… - Lactose tolerance developed quickly in Europe
- Did severe cyclones cause the Mayan collapse?
- Is Maes Howe an upside down house for the dead?
More… - The Setantii were marsh dwelling Celts in Britain
- A Viking sword is found in central Norway
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- Ancient mammoth ivory carving technology
- Cultural change in the African Stone Age
- Rapa Nui didn’t crash because Europeans came
- How Neanderthals adjusted to climate change
- Bronze Age Britons made keepsakes out of bones of dead relatives
- Dinosaur embryo is a unicorn
- Down’s Syndrome identified in 6000 year old Irish DNA
- The prehistoric acoustics of Stonehenge revealed
- Celtic clothing in the Iron Age
- A bowl depicting a human face with horns found in a 7000 year old settlement in Poland
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September 2020
- Pig figurines found in a Bronze Age house in Poland
- A Triassic beast that survived by taking naps
- Siberia’s Paleolithic civilization
- A Neolithic house found in Cork, Ireland
- A tour of Neolithic Orkney
- A hoard of 14th century gold and silver coins found in the Czech Republic
- Pagan statues found in a Roman well in Germany
- Slavery in the Viking age
- Raiders of the Lost Yeast – pandemic bakers re-create ancient bread
- Massive stone structures from ancient Saudi Arabia
More… - 313 million year old fossil footprints found in the Grand Canyon
- Syria’s destroyed Temple of Bel has been digitally reconstructed
- Egyptian animal mummies unwrapped digitally
- Magdalenian rock art from Britain
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More… - Flint reveals one trail early humans took out of Africa
- The overlooked wonders of ancient Sudan
- Evidence that Tuberculosis emerged in the Neolithic era
- Rapid acceptance of foreign foods in the European Bronze Age
- A 1,300 year old burial in Mexico found
- New discoveries at Smyrna
- First Viking helmet found in Britain
- A statue of a priest of Hathor found in Egypt
- New finds at Luxor
- The surprising lives of Neanderthals
- The Neanderthal mind
- Who were the Celts?
- Ancient Celts in Slovakia
- Early humans in South Africa finds 2000 year old grass bedding (video)
- The arrival of the Longobards in Italy: biometrical analysis
- A 3000 year old hoard found in Scotland
- Banana cultivation in Australia goes back 2000 years
- Eating out was a social affair for early humans
- Did climate change doom the woolly rhinoceros?
- Photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors
- 9,000 years ago, a young adult was cremated in a pit of flowers
- Challenging cultural narratives about ancient monuments
- Medieval sword and artefacts found in a Polish lake
- 30 new stones found at the “Armenian Stonehenge”
- Europe’s earliest known bone tools found in UK
- Ancient “Hell Ant” was unlike anything alive today
- DNA from another mystery human ancestor found
- The first Viking helmet found in Britain
- Humans have been making poisoned arrows for at least 70,000 years
- Jewelry, coins, pottery found at a Roman villa in the UK
- A 13th century Scottish castle built by a Wizard (video)
- A Bronze Age finds in Scotland
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- Book series explores ancient European languages
- Stonehenge through time (video)
- A woodhenge discovered in Iberia
- Deciphering Ogham (paper)
- There may be a massive temple complex under Navan Fort in Ulster
- 600,000 year old man made tools found in Spain
- A giant crane from southern Germany
- Ancient Incan offering found in lake Titicaca
- Ancient Rome’s finest glass was made in Egypt
- Remains of a 10,000 year old woolly mammoth pulled from a Siberian lake
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- Medieval wine windows make a comeback, reviving an ancient plague tradition
- Income inequality began in Europe 6600 years ago
- Richard the Lionheart’s absent queen of England’s effigy restored
- A lost Viking waterway found in Orkney
- Sanskrit and its strong ties to European languages
- Inca water offerings found
- The history of the Taino
- Treasures from an Iron Age grave in Germany
- Roman fort found in Lancashire
- A Coligny calendar reconstruction
- Stone calendars in Iberia (Leon, Spain) (video) (Spanish)
- Celtic women’s ankle bracelets show eastwards expansion of culture
- Inscribed Roman Stone Monument Found In Serbia Stolen After 24 Hours
- Italy’s Neanderthal Caves Reveal Fluctuations In Mediterranean Sea Level
- Hundreds Of Arrowheads And Crossbow Bolts Found In Polish Forest
- Update On The Asclepeion Dig At Epidaurus
- Stolen 9th Century Shiva Statue Returns To India From London
- Gold Diadem Found In Roman-Era Sarcophagus In Izmir
- Accelerated bone deterioration in a Mesolithic Scandinavian peat bog causes alarm
More… - An ancient bronze Chinese chariot restored
- Miniature Egyptian mummies had surprising contents
- Tracing the Cailleach – myths, megaliths and astronomy (video)
- Archaeologists have located the source of the Stonehenge Sarsen stones
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More… - Full movie – Standing with Stones (of Britain and Ireland)
- The mystery of the Orkney voles
- Worked bone found at the Ness of Bodgar
- Standing stones of Fife (video)
August 2020
- Ceremonial drinking vessels from the Andes
- The economic results of climate change and plague in the 6th century
- Passion For Purple Revives Ancient Dye In Tunisia
- The five top ancient Siberian sites
- A 3rd century statue of a woman found in Turkey
- Carved stones found in Egypt
- 8000 year old skeletons found in Bulgaria
- Turkey to restore a 2,700 year old temple
- Etruscan Burial Discovered In Tuscan Village
- Did female artisans make pottery in the Greek geometric phase?
- Norway’s Gjellestad Burial Mound Belonged To The Iron Age Elite
- 14,000 year old poop from the Americas is human, study concludes
- A 3000 year old house found in Belgium
- 3,000 Year-Old Statue Acquired For Leicester’s Ancient Egypt Collection
- A well preserved mammoth skeleton was found in a Siberian lake
- Roman amphoras found in a Spanish seafood shop
- 1000 year old jewelry mold found in Switzerland
- Newgrange and inbreeding, three ancient myths
- Newgrange petroglyphs may be maps of the area
- Did Aboriginal Australians grow grain and bake bread 20,000 years before Egyptians?
- Did Neanderthals have lower pain threshold?
- Petroglyphs found in Inner Mongolia
- The “screaming mummy” who died of a heart attack
- The Mediterranean Sea was 2 degrees hotter during the Roman Empire
- Amud 9 is shown to be a Neanderthal woman
- Neolithic And Zhou Dynasty Tombs Discovered In South China
- Archaeologists Use Tooth Enamel Protein To Show Sex Of Human Remains
- First Exhaustive Analysis Of Use-Wear Traces On Basalt Tools From Olduvai
- Why Viking longships were so effective
- More evidence that people have been in the Americas longer than was thought
More… - Vandals increasingly threaten Irish archaeological treasures
- Pre-Hispanic finds in Mexico
- A bronze age house found on Aarran, Scotland
- Stonehenge tunnel updates and some Anglo-Saxon finds
- Ancient Greeks may have built “disability ramps” on some temples
- Gardening hoes made of bison scapula show Native Americans were farmers before European contact
- View Viking sites by drone
- Earliest cases of Smallpox confirmed so far, the Vikings may have been “super spreaders”
- 3000 year old cart ruts to be preserved
- A prehistoric Venus figurine is found in Hungary
More… - Why the two wheel chariot was so effective in battle
- The Hyksos were immigrants, not invaders, evidence shows
- Scientists Find New Evidence Of Massive Tsunami That Devastated Ancient Britain In 6200BC
- Neanderthals of the western Mediterranean did not become extinct due to climate change
- Ancient peoples of Patagonia adapted to climate change
- Climate was the key factor in ancient migrations across Europe
- Archaeology student finds a Viking trading center
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- A Sauropod that lived in Switzerland discovered
- Discoveries at the Ness of Brodgar
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