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July 2020
- 2300 year old Scythian woman’s boots
- A vestige of druidic worship in the contemporary era?
- Former Louvre Curator Among Five Arrested In Paris Over Alleged Mideast Antiquities Trafficking
- Antiquities looter gang busted in Bulgaria
- A non-tobacco herb identified in an ancient Native American pipe
- Pre-colonial cultural evidence found in the Amazon
- Ancient Mayan reservoirs contained toxic pollution
- Iron Age Spelt bread is making a comeback
- First Viking ship excavation in a century begins in Norway
- An Archaic Indian site in Northampton, Massachusetts is threatened by road construction
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And more… Scroll down to see this part: IMPORTANT The Skibiski family received permission from the Attorney General to share the state’s archeological site report with the public. The State Archeologist still has not released it. Download here. Note the summaries on pages 38 & 42. - Celts, Phoenicians and Greeks, the history of Spain
- Ness of Brodgar – Neolithic carved stone balls
- Roman ovens discovered in Luxor
- A Roman lead ingot with writing on it, found in Wales
- Sledge dogs have been used by humans for more than 10,000 years
More… - Troy just keeps falling
- Calls for the return of the Parthenon sculptures continue
- Climate change and the rise of the Roman Empire
- 3-D reconstructions of Roman boats
- Skull from a Scandinavian ritual site reconstructed
More… - Did a fireball destroy an ancient Syrian village?
- What modern cities can learn from the ancient Pueblos
- Nabta Playa is older than Stonehenge – it’s the world’s oldest astronomical site (that we know of)
- Another Neolithic monument found near Stonehenge
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And More… - Tunnel project should be scrapped after Stonehenge discovery
- Lead pollution from the Middle Ages found in Swiss ice
- Iron Age cremation site in the UK identified
- A Viking toilet found in Denmark
- Fisherman finds medieval statue in a river in Gallicia
- The Lindisfarne Gospels
- The Beowulf Codex
- England’s first nun
- Researchers Obtain Molecular Information From Egyptian Mummy Using Innovative Non-Invasive Sampling Method
- A female Neanderthal from Siberia identified
- Early bow and arrow hunting in Sri Lanka – 48,000 years ago
- The Maya ruins at Uxmal – new evidence
- A ritual ax from Iberia
- Evidence of incest found in Newgrange burial
More… - Australian fossil reveals a new plant species
- A French cave reveals secrets of life and death
- Ancient Roman structures revealed by drought in Wales
- A Mesolithic site found in southern India
- A Thracian Pit Sanctuary uncovered in Bulgaria
- A Bronze Age site found in Iran
- Vandals attacked an ancient Greek site in Albania (no offense meant to actual Vandals)
More… - 15,000 years ago humans in what is now Israel ate snakes, lizards
- The role of chambered cairns in Orkney
- Sweden’s greatest runestone
- Reindeer were domesticated earlier than was thought
- A Viking excavation that could re-write the history of Iceland’s settlement
More… - Tree rings can be used to solve ancient mysteries
- What ancient hominins ate
- Greek ministry of culture wins landmark cultural heritage case
- An ancient Roman board game found in a Norwegian burial mound
- Diving for Ice Age bones
- An ancient Roman city is explored without digging, by using radar
- Ancient Irish archaeology
- Ancient bird carving found in a refuse heap is the oldest Chinese work of art
- Political changes wrought by the Black Death in Europe
- Ancient crocodiles once walked on two legs like dinosaurs
- A tropical disease in Medieval Europe related to Syphilis
- Damage to stone circles in the UK reported
- Mayan murals found in a Guatemalan house
- Roman forts, roads in Wales revealed by drought
- A Siberian complex from the year 777
- Megalithic monuments of Arabia
- Denisovan DNA found in modern Oceanian peoples
- A small Isis figurine is found in Germany
- Oldest and largest Maya settlement found to date
- Goebekli Tepe updates
- Evidence of Neolithic fabric found in Orkney
- Mining company blows up a 47,000 year old aboriginal sacred site
- A 3500 year old basket is found in Scotland
- What is a crannog?
- A Viking grave mystery in Norway
- Scottish crannog finds (video)
- Student finds a 4000 year old boat in Ireland
- The Roman province of Gallaecia (Spain)
- The Picts (video)
- Viking exhibition at the British Museum (video)
- The early peopling of the Caribbean
- There were three distinct stone age groups in Sweden
- Is this the oldest Celtic text in the world? (video)
- How to make a torc (video)
- 5 million years ago there were wolf sized otters
- The Mona Lisa of dinosaur fossils
- Traces of burned Cannabis found on the altar of an ancient Jewish shrine
- England’s Jurassic Coast is one of the best fossil collecting sites on Earth
- Humans and Neanderthals were very closely related
- The Mayans produced massive structures at a time of little hierarchy
June 2020
- The story of the Tara Brooch
- Doubts about some Neanderthal art work in Spain
- Heightened Interaction Between Neolithic Migrants And Hunter-Gatherers In Western Europe
- Roman ships found in a Serbian coal mine
More… - Celtic Asturias
- Was Philip of Macedon even greater than his son Alexander?
- A Viking pass in Norway yields more artifacts
- Roman floor mosaics uncovered in Verona
- Using DNA to piece together the Dead Sea scrolls
- Miniature rock art discovered in Australia
- Women with Neanderthal gene have fewer miscarriages, less bleeding
- A giant mammoth graveyard found in a Mexican airport
- Life sized statue of a warlord found in Japan
- Norwegian couple find a Viking grave under their house
- A small Canaanite tablet found by a six year old
More… - 7000 years of demographics in France
- A Paleolithic site in interior of Spain
- A 4000 year old settlement in the Czech Republic found
- Early Iron Age burials found in France
- A Neolithic burial in Germany discovered
- Greece still trying to get Parthenon sculptures back
- The last Neanderthals in Cantabria
- Excavating a Pictish cemetery
- A stone hill fort in Wales (video)
- Evidence of hierarchy during the Neolithic era
- Humans once lived next to giant kangaroos, lizards, in ancient Australia
- What did ancient Rome look like? (video)
- What did ancient Greece look like? (video)
- Daily life in ancient Egypt (video)
- Some of the most beautiful Pictish stones
- A 5000 year old dolmen in Andalucía
- A Saxon brooch found in a truckload of soil
- Building a Celtic Roundhouse ( four videos)
- A series of Medieval lectures on line (podcasts)
- An Iron Age female burial found in France
- Using teeth to determine the sex of individuals
- Europe’s earliest mice were closely followed by Europe’s earliest cats
More… - Underwater archaeology in the North and Baltic seas
- Supercomputers reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
- Oldest connection with Native Americans and Lake Baikal, Siberia, found
- European Ice Age peoples ate wolves More: https://www.archaeology.org/news/8718-200527-paleolithic-hunters-carnivores
- A room is found under the western wall, Jerusalem
- Aboriginal Rock Art, Frontier Conflict And A Swastika: Murray River Rock shelter Reveals Region’s History
- A 300,000 year old elephant found in Saxony
- The conundrum of ancient toys
- How the Egyptians embedded beliefs in tomb architecture
- A 5th century BC chariot burial from Newbridge, Edinburgh
- What A Bone Arrowhead From South Africa Reveals About Ancient Human Cognition
- Fungus is destroying a buried Viking ship. Here’s how Norway plans to save it.
- When the Romans turned Jerusalem into a pagan city, Jews revolted and minted this coin
- Text has been found on supposedly “blank” Dead Sea Scroll fragments
- A 5,300 year old city in China discovered
- The earliest evidence for human symbolic behavior
- Ancient footprints imply division of labor among men, women
- Cahokia’s Rise Parallels Onset Of Corn Agriculture
- Study Highlights The African Affinities Of The Southwestern European Acheulean
- The enigma of Silbury Hill
- A Roman leather mouse toy discovered at Vindolanda More: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/16/practical-joke-or-toy-leather-mouse-shows-romans-playful-side
- A huge Pictish settlement is identified in Scotland “Mind blowing”
- Geometry guided the construction of Gobekli Tepe
- Evidence that early humans in China adapted to climate change
- Bones of a Mayan Settlement
- Ronald Hutton: Neolithic British Religion (video)
- Coronavirus: Lockdown boost for archaeology as amateurs uncover Roman remains
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Even More… - Evidence for the first fires made by humans in the Yucatan
- Why the two wheeled Egyptian chariot was so effective
- Climate Change threatens Arctic Heritage
- Evidence for human migration that is now under water
- A Thracian burial mound in Bulgaria yields artefacts
- How some Roman mosaics were saved
- Norway to excavate a Viking ship for the first time in 100 years
- As important as Newgrange or Tara – an ancient Irish site you’ve never heard of
- Archaeologists find Neolithic quay near Newgrange
- Chemical Evidence Of Dairying By Hunter-Gatherers In Lesotho In The First Millennium AD
- Oldest Upper Paleolithic Homo Sapiens In Europe Found In Bulgarian Cave
- A Prehistoric cave found in North Korea
- Ancient astronomers of the Colorado Plateau and how they aligned their building
- Rewilding lessons from the Medieval Baltic Crusades
- Melting ice, permafrost, could spark the next pandemic
- Photographer discovers what may be a lost henge structure in the UK
- A late Iron Age Celtic village is uncovered in Hungary
- A section of the Theodosian wall of Constantinople has collapsed
- A 1,700 year old Norwegian board game found
- Despite protests Egypt moves four Sphinxes to Tahrir Square
- A huge defensive structure from the Roman age found in Denmark
- A virtual reconstruction of a pre-Hispanic city
- A Neanderthal bone flute from Slovenia
- Neanderthals were choosy about which bones they used for musical instruments
- Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Europe much longer than was thought
- A previously unknown ring fort is found by a drone operator in Clare
- A Medieval town lost to the sea
- 19000 artefacts recovered in massive antiquities trafficking sting
- A 1000 year old flour mill is back in business
- A lost medieval blue ink recipe is recreated
- New Evidence from European bog bodies
- An Anglo-Saxon Princely burial
- Sinkhole near the Pantheon shines a light on ancient slabs
- Ancient Egyptian Funeral Home Reveals Embalmers Had a Knack for Business
- Archaeologists Discover Teenage Mummy Buried With Trove of Ornate Jewelry
- An English teacher sells Anglo-Saxon treasure
- Medieval arrows caused wounds like gunshots
- A moated homestead in Scotland
- How did Iron Age society cope with crisis?
- Four centuries of Roman rule in Britain (podcast)
- When and where were horses domesticated?
- What the ancients learned from pandemics
- New ring forts discovered in Poland
- Coastal Picts did not eat fish, research shows
More… - The Ekilstuna Rune Stone
- Globalization in the year 1000 CE
- A 1,700 year old board game from Norway
- Viking house burials
- Whalebone use in Iron Age Orkney
- Loughcrew megalithic site (video)
- Altamira cave, virtual tour (video)Prehistoric cooking (video)
- These three men were among the first enslaved Africans in the Americas
- A Ming dynasty battlefield yields 1000 artefacts
- A new Egyptian burial chamber with mummies
- Lost Bronze Age hillforts found in Devon, England
May 2020
- Plastered human skulls from the pre-pottery Neolithic
- The world’s first computer was used to predict eclipses
- The Justinianic plague was not as dire as thought
- From the Vikings to WWII – the history of a wall
- An ancient Turkish “Tree of Life”
- The London Mithraeum refurbished
- A warrior grave from Croatia – 7th – 8th century
- 5000 year old cave art was found in the Sinai desert
- Deformed “alien” skulls from a Hungarian graveyard
- A 2000 year old Roman sewn boat found
- New excavations at Pompeii (plus drone footage)
- The first swimming dinosaur has just been identified
- The spread of dairy farming across western Europe
- Fish Hooks and Evidence Of Late Pleistocene Human Colonization Of Isolated Islands
- The origins of human fatherhood examined
- An Iron Age brooch and ring found in Shropshire
- Evidence that female hunter-gatherers were also warriors
- A Roman era Thracian burial mound in Bulgaria
- Archaeologists are building a replica of a broch in Scotland
- Biggest discoveries about human evolution in the last 10 years
- What Rome learned from the deadly Antonine Plague of 165 CE
- Secret lives of the ancient Egyptians – sex, drugs and crocodile dung
- The role of soot in killing the dinosaurs
- These ancient flowers were used as Anglo-Saxon bubble wrap
- A 5700 year old settlement unearthed in Switzerland
- The origins of human language may have existed 25 million years ago
- A famous English hillside chalk figure has been adorned with a face mask.
- Did the Romans invent recycling?
- Fossil frogs from ancient Antarctica
- Heart extraction in Meso-American human sacrifices
- New findings about Neanderthal DNA
- 17th Dynasty Mummy Of Teenage Girl Discovered At Draa Abul Naga Necropolis In Luxor
- Could bringing Neanderthals back help save the planet?
- Aussie dinosaurs that were crouch walkers
- How ancient Finns survived climate disaster
- The muddle in the mid-Pleistocene in Africa
- Some Bronze Age British burials found
More… - Avebury without tourists (video)
- Leprosy in Medieval England
- The moment Boudicca rebelled
- Using teeth to reconstruct genetic relationships
- 7,000-Year-Old Carved Stelae Discovered At Tall Chegah-E Sofla In Southern Iran
- Proof that Bronze Age swords were used in battle
- New genomic studies of Neolithic Europeans
- A Roman legionary canteen found in France
- Ice Age hunters used wooden weapons
- African hominids caused carnivore extinctions
- New Egyptian discoveries
- Standing with the stones of megalithic Britain (2 hour film!)
- 2000 year old graves found in Dorset, UK
- Solving a 1000 year old blue dye mystery
- The mystery of 2 million year old stone balls solved
- The “Nazareth inscription” reinterpreted
- Residents Of Çatalhöyük Were Buried In Their Own Homes
- Ram’s Skull Found Inside 2,100-Year-Old Human Clay Head In Siberia
- Diet and subsistence practices of ancient East African pastoralists
- Archaeologists Discover Ancient Treasures In Iraq Site Blown Up By Islamic State
- Dating pottery from Neolithic London
- An ancient Viking settlement on Skye
- A Viking mountain pass in Norway yields many artefacts as the ice melts
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And More… - Coring Arctic lakes to study Vikings
- How Stonehenge was built
- Aztec farming on artificial islands called Chinampas
- Copper was known to kill viruses even in ancient times
- Bio-archaeology: the study of ancient pathogens
- A Neolithic cairn excavated in Wales
- New insights on Neanderthals (video)
- A beverage made by hunter gatherers (guess what it was?)
- Who lived at the “German Stonehenge”?
- Seafood became toxic in the stone age due to climate change, could happen again
- The Chislehurst caves, London
- London is 3000 years older than was thought
- A Balkan Celtic fortress and ritual site
- Artio – the ancient Bear Goddess
- Oldest homo erectus fossil
- A virtual tour of Pompeii
- Fancy decorated eggs were prized by the ancients, just like today
- Ancient Britons saw hares, chickens, as Gods
- Neanderthal fiber technology
More… - Articles about the Normans, William the Conqueror, Harold, etc.
- Callanish stones may commemorate a massive lightning strike
- Celtic death rituals and life expectancy
- British MP calls for return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece
- Victims of a Medieval ritual killing found
- A Viking ship comes to life on line
- Roman coins found by a Polish farmer
- Roman era mosaics found in Side
- Comparing parietal lobes in Neanderthals and modern humans
- Complex brain surgery in ancient Greece
- Amazonian crops were domesticated 10,000 years ago
- A new method for dating ancient pottery sherds
- An ancient Celtic funeral mask
- A 25,000 year old mammoth bone structure
- A painting of a Goddess found in a 3000 year old coffin
- Catubodua – the Celtic Queen of Death
- Woman seeks man – an ancient Egyptian binding spell
- The Pictish Tulloch Stone
- Fourth Style Frescoes from Pompeii
- A Celtic Princess’s burial contains horse armor
- The British Museum has insulted the Greeks over Parthenon sculptures
- The birth of Mayan writing
- A 2000 year old sun dial unearthed in Turkey
- What if Boudicca had defeated the Romans?
- Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
- Things you never knew about King Arthur
- New conclusions about modern human ancestry
- A Neolithic site found in Wales
- Neolithic culinary culture
- Roman artefacts unearthed in the UK
- Homo Erectus is older than was thought
- Tree rings pinpoint the date of the Thera eruption
- Medieval cattle raiders in Ireland’s national epic
- A new film about a deserted Medieval village in England
- A mass grave from the Black Death plague in England
- In ancient Florida, an empire made based on shells and fish
- Three kinds of ancient humans lived together in South Africa
- Ancient Antarctic rainforest found under the ice
- A hominid skull from 300,000 years ago may be from a ghost African population
- Oldest ever human genetic evidence retrieved from 800,000-year-old fossil
- The oldest known wooden sculpture in the world
- 50,000 year old fossil feces from La Brea tar pits
- 1200-Year-Old Buddhist Monastery Discovered In Bangladesh
- New tool for biomedical research was developed in ancient Egypt
- The fastest Viking ship ever found
- Female Druids in Brittany
- Hidden animals in Celtic Art (video)
- Ancient cultic area of a warrior-God found in Iraq
April 2020
- The Paleolithic diet – what it was really like
- Alpine ice cores shed light on Medieval murder
- Cork events center claimed by Danish on behalf of Vikings
- The origins and evolution of African cultures
- Could introduced species help bring back the past?
- Rheumatic diseases during the Little Ice Age
- European castles virtually rebuilt
- Two massive cairns in Germany could be trashed
- A movie about Sutton Hoo
- Iron Age cooking – recipes
- Vindolanda, top 10 finds
- A Mammoth tusk is found in Bavaria, Germany
- Neanderthals ate dolphins and sharks
- What the Plague of Athens can teach us today
- Small Horses Got Smaller, Big Tapirs Got Bigger 47 Million Years Ago
- Darkness, not cold, killed the dinosaurs
- Fossil Finds Give Clues About Flying Reptiles In The Sahara 100 Million Years Ago
- Prehistoric Artefacts Suggest A Neolithic Era Independently Developed In New Guinea
- Tests to determine the age of the Cerne Abbas Giant
- The Egyptian Sphinx appears to be oriented to the Equinoxes
- Rathcrogan, an important Irish Iron Age site
- Poulnabrone dolmen, the Burren, County Clare
- A warrior burial found in West Sussex
- Neolithic pottery found in Slovakia
- The Celtic Ogham alphabet
- How bad were the Middle Ages, really?
- Burial rites in Celtic Europe
- Pocket sized art work from Ice Age Indonesia
- Diet, ancient teeth, reveal gender inequality in Bronze Age China
- Bone analysis and kitchen utensils in the middle ages
- Fine tuning radiocarbon dating could rewrite history
- A rare Roman coin minted in London
- Tooth enamel of early hominids grew faster than today’s modern human’s
- Man fearing corona virus apocalypse returns stolen artifacts
- A Tang Dynasty noblewoman was buried with her donkeys
- A Celto-Scythian Scabbard from Ukraine
- Vikings in Ireland – new discoveries in Dublin
More… - Stonehenge tunnel project is approved
- Romans wore flying feathered penises to ward off sickness
- 13th century walls and other discoveries made in Wales
- Whale bones and the closure of a broch
- Equine cults and Celtic Goddesses (PDF)
- Task division in hunter-gatherer groups is not based on gender
- The tiniest dinosaur every found was trapped in amber
- Dinosaurs used to stomp on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
- Cave Rock Studies Provide Window Into Ancient Civilizations
- Did a cosmic impact destroy one of the earliest human settlements?
- Ancient Shell Shows Days Were Half-Hour Shorter 70 Million Years Ago
- Ancient Maya Kingdom Unearthed In A Backyard In Mexico
- Intensive Management Of Crops And Livestock Spurred La Bastida’s Economic Development
- Medieval uses of birch bark tar
- Scottish storms unearth a 1,500 year old Viking cemetery
- Tools of a Viking Volva
- Remains of an Anglo-Saxon princess who is an early ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II
- A huge arrowhead found in a melting glacier
- People have been taking out insurance policies for 30,000 years
- A Roman amphitheater in Kent to be excavated
- A Roman horse brooch found in Lincolnshire
- The wild boar cult in Celtic Europe
- Rare tile of a mythical beast found in an English cesspit
- Siberian Neanderthals came from different populations
- The growth of farming led to both cooperation and violence
- The smallest Homo erectus cranium found in Africa
- Gold Celtic “Druid Rings”
- The life and times of an Iron Age warrior
- Oleg’s mound, Russia
- An ancient road built by a Maya queen
- Hunter-gatherer networks accelerated human evolution
- Runaway truck topples an Easter Island statue
- Long-Ago Record Of Bering Strait Flooding Shows How Ice Sheets Responded To Climate Change
- A lizard fossil trapped in amber
- The origins of plant domestication and seed dispersal
- Dairying in ancient Eastern Eurasia
- The early domestication of wild boars
- Millet sustained the Mongolian empires
- The stone age seafood diet was high in toxic metals
- A late Iron Age or early Roman warrior burial in Sussex
- Giant armadillo fossils found in Argentina
- Chile has returned a priceless Inca manuscript to Peru
- India seeks return of a stolen statue currently in UK
- Mexico returns Yoruba statue to Nigeria
- Bronze Age graves found in Belgium
- Cartilage Cells, Chromosomes And DNA Preserved In 75-Million-Year-Old Baby Duck-Billed Dinosaur
- Download free 3-D historical models
- Archaeology intern finds a spectacular Roman dagger in Germany
- Early humans in Africa may have inbred with another mysterious species
- A possible quay identified at Newgrange
- A new virtual exhibit of the Chauvet caves
- A Celtic helmet from Switzerland
- Update from Orkney after recent storms
- A 5000 year old sword from Anatolia
More… - Vindolanda archaeological dig opens up a new museum
- Experts divided on Romulus tomb
- British museum acquires a Bronze Age “Sun pendant”
March 2020
- The Coninie Stone, Scotland
- Leopard “guardian of the dead” found on a sarcophagus in Aswan
- Pre-Hispanic burials found in the Canary Islands
- The Neolithic farming revolution brought new diseases
- Humans survived a super volcano eruption 74,000 years ago
- The Danube Torc
- A suspected temple of Romulus found in Rome
- An Iron Age inscription found in Turkey
- Spain’s own “Stonehenge” monument
- Cernunnos and the ram-headed serpent
- Crannogs of Scotland are older than was thought
- When fish swam in the Sahara desert
- A 46,000 year old frozen lark found in Siberia
- Earliest Interbreeding Event Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered
- Dozens of ancient Egyptian graves found with clay coffins
- Neolithic farmed fields in Ireland
- A Neolithic massacre in Spain
- A breathtaking Pompeii restoration – new discoveries
- Some stunning Viking Rune Stones
- A Pictish power center found near Dunkeld, Perthshire
- Hypogeum With Sarcophagus From 6th Cent. BC Found In Roman Forum
- A princely Iron Age tomb with a chariot found in Italy
- A silver Roman dagger is restored to its former glory
- Ice Age dog domestication – a new study
- The mind of our ancient ancestors
- Ancient Australian plants foods identified
- Greece brings demand for Elgin Marbles into Brexit negotiations with Britain
- A 70,000 year old Neanderthal skeleton found in Iraq
More… - Carving of a warrior with elaborate hair and a big butt found in Scotland
More… - An ancient Egyptian board game tied to the Book of the Dead
- Temple of the White Eagle found in Iraq
- A 3000 year old Canaanite temple found
- Is this a 9th century Viking Witch’s wand? Or just a fish hook?
- Painting Of Deity Found Inside 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Coffin
- 5,200 year old crops exchanges in trans- Eurasia
- Irish sweat houses
- A Roman snake ring found in Buckinghamshire
- Is this Aboriginal tale the oldest story ever told?
- 3-D models of ancient Athens’s history
- A Paleolithic sanctuary is discovered in Catalonia
- The last Woolly Mammoths on Earth had genetic problems
- This ancient turtle was “the size of a sedan”
- Human remains found at a Roman military base in Kent
- Meet T-Rex’s older cousin “The Reaper of Death”
- Dinosaurs had a disease that still afflicts humans
- “Jaw dropping” Celtic warrior grave
- Durham archaeological dig reveals ‘earliest resident’
- Iron Age coins declared a treasure
- Developers will protect Roman villa unearthed in Cam
- 2,000-Year-Old Burial Of Germanic ‘Dignitary’ Discovered In South-Eastern Moravia
- Was this ancient cave a lab for preserving bodies?
- Devon Museum In Repatriation Dispute Over Indigenous Relics
- Ancient curse tablets found in Athens
- Its time to reclaim real Viking history
- Replica Phoenician ship completes voyage to the Americas
- Iron Age Feasting at Navan Fort
- Pigs were the preferred ceremonial food in Iron Age Britain
- New discoveries at Callanish
- When a tsunami happened in Britain (video)
- The Bronze Age Havering hoard raises many questions
- Ancient Siberians cooked using “hot pots”
- Scientists grow palm trees from 2000 year old seeds
- Easter Island society collapsed later than was thought
- Dating western Australian rock art using wasp’s nests
- A plant fossil from Eocene Patagonia re-classified
- Revealing x-rays of Peruvian mummies
- The best board games from ancient times
- A 9,900 year old female skeleton found in a Mexican underwater cave
- A 7000 year old Neolithic well is oldest wooden structure ever found
- Pompeii’s ancient drains are still working after 2000 years
- A new app to guide you through Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- A record number of Iron Age coins discovered in England
More… - Campaign to save Gloucestershire Roman villa unearthed on estate
- A new building found at the Asclepieion of Epidaurus on the Peloponnesian Peninsula
- New finds in Santorini, Greece
- A board game piece from Viking era found at Lindisfarne
- English family fined for destroying a Medieval village
- A 1,300 year old Saxon coin changes history
- 44,000 year old cave art – the earliest form of story telling
- A Bronze Age crannog found in Galway
- Iron Age ‘Warrior’ Burial Uncovered In West Sussex
- Greece To Step Up Campaign For Return Of Parthenon Sculptures After Brexit
- Cacao and Witchcraft in colonial South America
- Mystery deepens over 42 oddly buried skeletons found on UK farm
February 2020
- Jersey Iron Age coin hoard sets world record
- Early North Americans were more diverse than thought
- Neanderthal genes detected in African populations
- The ritual use of human skull caps
- The ghostly treasure ship of Sutton Hoo
- Ancient Egyptian priests that were buried with thousands of afterlife servants
- 800-Year-Old Rock Drawings At Mesa Verde Linked To Astronomical Observations
- Analysis of a Roman makeup case
- New Study Debunks Myth Of Cahokia’s Native American Lost Civilization
- Anthropomorphic carved bone figure discovered in Çatalhöyük in Turkey
- A 2000 year old Iron Age burial found in England
- Archaic Building Found At Asclepeion Sanctuary In Ancient Epidaurus
- 2600 year old mummy was murdered
- Siberian Neanderthals Were Intrepid Nomads
- British Museum may have to return the Parthenon marbles, due to new regulations
- 17,000 year old artifacts found in Malaysian caves
- A Knight’s Hall built by Crusaders identified in Syria
- Remains found at Pompeii really are Pliny the Elder, tests indicate
- Was a stone monument near Callanish built to attract lightning?
- A new species of Allosaurus found in Utah
- A Canadian village that is 10,000 years older than the pyramids
- An engraved Peruvian monolith that was hidden for 2000 years
- Iron Age Italian tomb complete with a chariot found
- An elite Bronze Age burial from Poland reconstructed
- Developers damage a Roman wall in Chester while building a hotel
- Dry rot hastens Viking ship excavation in Norway
- Ancient cats domesticated themselves, DNA shows
- Roman Coin Found In Northern Norway May Redraw Historic Trade Map
- Child burials found in Africa reveal a different human landscape
- A looted bull statue returns to Afghanistan 30 years later
- Tatoos discovered on ancient Egyptians
- The Grianan of Aileach, Donegal, an iconic stone fort
- A Long-Hidden Collection of Ancient Sculpture Is Making Its Grand Debut
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- Humans have caused biodiversity decline for millions of years
- Homo Antecessor had dental issues
- A Celtic Priestess’s Grave in Germany
- Neolithic pottery fragments uncovered in Moscow
- Peru to deport tourists over Machu Pichu damage
- Mexico recovers Mesoamerican pieces from Germany
- 2000 year old burials found in Turkey
- The end of the road for Homo Erectus
- Is this mitochondrial Eve’s homeland?
- 50 Roman burials found in England
- Confirmed: Norway’s Gjellestad Ship Is From The Viking Age
- Two Viking Age swords uncovered in Poland
- The real Vikings – how they lived
- Newgrange Winter Solstice (video)
- Infectious Disease Defenses Among Ancient Hominid Contributions To Adaptation Of Modern Humans
- New Dinosaur Discovered In China Shows Dinosaurs Grew Up Differently From Birds
- In Death Of Dinosaurs, It Was All About The Asteroid – Not Volcanoes
- A 1200 year old Inca idol resurfaces
- Purple dye traded in antiquity from Tunisia
- A Roman gladiator chamber found in Cartagena
- Kurdistan, Iraq, Assyrian stone reliefs
- A Pictish padlock hints at prosperity
- 21,000 year old Siberian Mammoth with clear signs of human butchering
- Ancient woodlands at risk from development in the UK
- Evidence for Bronze Age religion at Flag Fen, UK
- Neanderthals dove for shells to make cutting tools
- Divers retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from a Swiss lake
- The advanced toolmakers of Olduvai gorge
- Scythian horsewomen and Amazons
- Archaeology of the Findhorn dunes, Scotland
- Faces of 12th and 16th century Edinburgh residents reconstructed
- It is time for museums to return their looted treasures
- US Returns 3,500 Copper Axe ‘Coins’ To Mexico
- The puzzle of Neolithic house orientation solved
- Iron Age hill fort in Scotland reconstructed in a painting
- Medieval And Roman Artefacts Discovered In Ancient Port City Of Caesarea
- Gold Bar Found Beneath Mexico City Street Part Of Moctezuma’s Treasure
- A wooden sickle with flint blades from Egypt
- Roman condiment Garum fish sauce found in Pompeii
- Oldest Known City View Of Venice Discovered
- The Ice Man from British Columbia
- Mexico Returns 37 Archaeological Pieces To Peru
- Large Ganesha Statue Unearthed In Central Java
- Early Humans Revealed To Have Engineered Optimized Stone Tools At Olduvai Gorge
- A Viking rune stone that speaks of climate change
- Life on the Roman frontier in Scotland
- How The Extinction Of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Humans To Invent Civilization
- UAE Returns Hundreds Of Ancient Artefacts To Egypt
- A new research project to begin in Orkney
- Study Reveals Decline Of Harappan City Dholavira Caused By Drying Up Of River And Drought
- Discovery Of 17,000-Year-Old Venus Statue In Romania Stirs Controversy
- Divers To Retrieve Bronze Age Artefacts From Swiss Lake
- Netherlands Returns 1,500 Historical Artifacts To Indonesia
- If Trees Could Talk: Using Historic Log Structures To Map Migration Of Europeans, Native Americans
- Undisturbed Burials On School Site Shed Light On Roman Somerset
- Ancient Carvings In Northern Greece Defaced
- Roman burials found in Britain
- A Pictish homestead is excavated in Tayside
- Where did Gaelic language originate?
- Humans were eating starchy foods 170,000 years ago
- Measuring tables from a 2000 year old Jerusalem market
- 1,400 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets Identified from Lost City of Irisagrig in Iraq. Were They Stolen?
- Ancient Australian indigenous astronomy
- Medieval Thor of the sagas vs. comic book Thor
- Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a head dress on Don
- Decision to move Sphinxes criticized
- Overhunting of walruses led to collapse of Norse Greenland
- 1800-Year-Old Inscribed Votive Stele Found At Hadrianopolis In Paphlagonia
- 2,400-Year-Old Pendants Unearthed In Assos Excavations
- 2,500-Year-Old Scythian Warrior Grave Found In Siberian ‘Valley Of The Kings’
- Swords And Spears Of Long-Forgotten Warrior Tribe Found In Medieval Cemetery
- Early Modern Humans Cooked Starchy Food In South Africa, 170,000 Years Ago
- A 1000 year old Mayan palace found in the Mexican jungle
- Denisovans were more advanced than was thought
- Greek Authorities Seize Rare 6th Century BC Kouros Head In Corinth
- A 1,200 year old piggy bank found in a pot shop
- New discoveries about Otzie’s clothing
More… - 200 hundred more terracotta warriors unearthed in China
- Demon with Forked Tongue Found on Clay Tablet in Library of Assyrian Exorcists
- Big archaeological discoveries to watch for in 2020
- A pre-Viking massacre mystery
January 2020
- Antiques Roadshow expert drinks a bottle of urine, rusty nails and human hair after mistaking it for 150-year-old port (Ewwwww….)
- Greece’s Parthenon temple has had the wrong name for centuries, new research by archeologists claims
- New Terracotta Warriors Uncovered At Emperor’s Mausoleum
- 4000 year old guide to the ancient Egyptian underworld may be the world’s oldest illustrated book
- Gold Pendant Depicting Ancient Egyptian Goddess Discovered in Greece
- Drone photography reveals ancient sites in Scotland
- A new species of ancient human found in the Philippines
- Dog walker discovers 65 million-year-old ichthyosaur skeleton on beach in Somerset
- Eleven Skeletons Found In 1,000-Year-Old Moche Grave In Peru
- Stylish Suburbs: How Ancient Mexican Metropolis Dodged Inequality Trap
- Archaeologists Unearth Possible Evidence Of Early Neolithic Farming Communities In Dartmoor
- Phoenician Family Tomb Discovered In Israel
- 57 Ancient Tombs Found In South China
- Etzanoa, a lost Native American city in Kansas
- An Ancient Maya Palace Was Discovered in Yucatán State
- Gemstone Found In King Tut’s Tomb Formed When A Celestial Body Collided With Earth
- Otzi’s Bowstring And The Oldest Hunting Equipment From The Neolithic
- Dine like a doomed Pompeiian
- Archaeological discoveries coming faster than ever
- The most impressive Scottish stone circles
- Gaulish deities, a guide (video)
- In Brazil’s Pampas, A Triassic Park Once Flourished
- Time-To-Death Of Roman Emperors Followed Distinct Pattern
- Large Scale Feasts At Ancient Capital Of Ulster Drew Crowds From Across Iron Age Ireland
- A Scythian female warrior burial proves Amazons were real
More… - Pictish Eagles
- Medieval fishing basket found in the Severn
- A Medieval Danish queen’s cellar discovered
- Colossal Statue Of Horus Unearthed In Egypt’s Luxor
- Did a lightning strike lead to the building of the Callanish stone circle?
- Origin Story: Rewriting Human History Through DNA
- A Unique Perspective On (Pre)Historical Migration Using Linguistics
- Ancient Roman Culinary Preferences Revealed In Ashkelon Excavation
- New Archaeological Discoveries Reveal Birch Bark Tar Was Used In Medieval England
- 2,200 year old mosaics uncovered in Greece
- Hidden sundials in ancient mosaics
- Bronze Age monument discovered in the Forest of Dean, UK
- Fossils of Homo erectus tell the story of a long lived species
More… - The story of how and when people came to the Americas is still evolving
- The oldest known sea wall found on the Mediterranean shore
- A celebrated Ancient Egyptian Woman Physician Likely Never Existed (but other female healers did)
- Central Iberia Had A Tundra-Steppe Landscape Around 35,000 Years Ago
- Archaeologists Find Princely Tombs Near ‘Griffin Warrior’ In Pylos
- A 5000 year old skeleton with rare form of dwarfism found in China
- A Study Refutes The Similarities Between The Teeth Of Denisovans And Modern Asians
- Human Genome Recovered From 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum
- Dazzling ‘Temple of Colored Marbles’ Honoring Roman God Mithras Discovered in Italy
- The Minoans had disposable cups, just like us
- ‘Basilica Of Mysteries’ Reborn In Rome
- Painted Bronze Age monkeys reveal how connected the world was
- New data on the open air sanctuary of Zeus in Arcadia
- One of Europe’s worst famines likely caused by devastating floods
- More on Jewellery made from ‘human teeth’ found in Catalhoyuk
- Unique red granite bust of Ramses II unearthed in Giza
- Sphinx statue uncovered in Minya’s Tuna El-Gebel
- Secrets of the Megaliths (videos)
Part one
Part two - 14000 Yearm Old Bisons Sculpture Found in Le Tuc D’Audoubet Cave. Arige, France
- Roman tweezers, metal q-tip found in England
- Ancient cave art: humans were not center stage
- 44,000 year old Sulawesi art
More on this find…
More: Indonesian cave art overturns thinking on the roots of human spirituality - Earliest known family photo taken at Stonehenge
- 3-D Imaging Reveals Toll of Parthenon Marbles’ Deterioration
- Ancient Whale Fossil Helps Detail How the Mammals Took From Land to Sea
- Human ancestors may have begun speaking more than 25 million years ago (before Homo sapiens)
- Ancient Egyptian head cones were real, excavations suggest
- Viking swords found in Estonia
- Researchers analyze Paleo-Indian artifacts to better understand ancient dietary practices
- Isotope analysis from 1,400-year-old Maya mass grave of Uxul points to prisoners of war
- Roman-era shipwreck discovered off coast of Greek island of Kefalonia
- Dinosaurs had lice, too
- An early Bronze Age ring ditch and burials found in Lancashire
- How bad was the Younger Dryas? (video)
- 3-D printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonization efforts
- Ancient site older than Gobekli Tepe unearthed in Turkey
- Roman Villa Unearthed In Southern England
- Iron Age shield found during Pocklington dig fully restored
- 1,700 year old eggs from Roman Britain found
- Is this an ancient carved figure from Orkney?
- Roman silver coin hoard found in Switzerland
- Intact deposit of prehistoric funerary vessels found in Minorca
- Is Brittany the origin of megalithic culture in Europe?
- Cuneiform Reveals Shared Birthplace
- New finds from the ancient Egyptian Temple of Heliopolis
- Infrared reveals tatoos on Egyptian mummies
- European language before the Celts
- 7 warning signs of “pseudoarcheology”
- Elves in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
- Metal detectorist makes a mint from Anglo-Saxon coins
- At Amiens-Renancourt site, a team unearthed an astonishing “Venus” from the early Upper Paleolithic. It is the fifteenth statuette discovered on this site (French language post)
More: (in English) An exceptional Gravettian ‘Venus’ discovered in Amiens - Did alcohol save humans from extinction?
- A Pictish settlement under investigation in Caithness
- An Iron Age shield is found in Yorkshire
- Horned face adorns rare 5th century cup found in Osaka
- 4,500-year-old grain seeds found in eastern Turkey
- Palaeolithic cave site excavated in north China
- The art of the Roman surveyors emerges from newly discovered pavements in Pompeii
- First experimental genetic evidence of the human self-domestication hypothesis
- Some late Roman armor was found in Bulgaria
- The Justinianic plague may not have been as bad as was thought
- A shrine to the Cailleach in Scotland
- Magnificent Thermal Baths In Pompeii Unveiled
- Tutankhamun had two daughters buried with him
- Anglo-Saxon finds
December 2019
- Neanderthals may have died out without Homo sapiens intervention, anyway
More: Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction - People and climate led to Australia’s megafauna extinction
- Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 10,000 years of cultural interaction across Africa
- A female warrior burial found in Armenia
- An 18,000 year old puppy found in Siberian permafrost
More… - A Roman mosaic found in a farmer’s field in Turkey
- An Iron Age site found in Oman
- A 1300 year old chess piece found in Jordan
- How Homo sapiens cause the sixth mass extinction
- Christies urged to pull the sale of an Eros statue linked to illicit dealers
- Erotic fresco of Leda and the Swan unveiled in Pompeii
- A cave lion figurine found in Denisova cave, Siberia
- New discoveries in Egypt
- Animal mummies and other discoveries from Saqqara necropolis unveiled
- Celtic ceremonial buckets
- UK metal detectorists hid an Anglo-Saxon find that “rewrites history”
More… - The hoard was most likely buried by a Viking
More… - Secrets of a Scottish Viking hoard
- Mammoth pirates are after priceless tusks in Russia’s Arctic north
- Grave of an Anglo-Saxon woman found
More: Remains of Anglo Saxon woman and jewels discovered at university campus in Canterbury - A Neolithic find in France
- Mysterious Viking boat graves unearthed in central Norway
- Norwegians spot another Viking ship buried in the ground
- 5,000-year-old pyramid-like structure found in northern Peru
- Chichén Itzá is 400 years older than previously thought
- European police bust gang looting artifacts in Italy, 10,000 stolen artifacts recovered
More… - Archaeologists race to preserve artifacts as the ice melts in Mongolia
- Archaeologists Unearth Remains of Infants Wearing ‘Helmets’ Made From the Skulls of Other Children
- The Celtic God Esus in Iron Age Art
- Gobekli Tepe – where agriculture began (video)
- A huge site, larger than Stonehenge, found in Poland
- Horse-head statue looted by Anglo-French allied forces during Second Opium War in 1860 repatriated to China
- Profile of a glacier archaeologist
- Paleolithic ropes and baskets
- A history of writings about Stonehenge
- A Bronze Age sword found in Bohemia
- An ancient settlement found in Turkey
- A battle near Liverpool that saved England from the Vikings, Scots and Irish
- Ancient cup given to first marathon victor returned to Greece
- Over 140 new Nazca lines discovered in Peru
More…
More details… - Farmer discovers giant Byzantine-era pithos in central Turkey
- Alpine rock axe heads became social and economic exchange fetishes in the Neolithic
- Early DNA lineages from Finland shed light on the diverse origins of the contemporary population
- World’s oldest glue used from prehistoric times till the days of the Gauls
- DNA Suggests Ancient Egypt’s Millions of Ibis Mummies Were Wild-Caught Birds
- Newly Discovered Fossil Bird Fills in Gap Between Dinosaurs and Modern Fliers
- First evidence of feathered polar dinosaurs found in Australia
- ‘Ghost’ footprints from Pleistocene era revealed by radar tech
- Scientists explore Egyptian mummy bones with x-rays and infrared light
- Modern Apes Smarter Than Pre-Humans
- A 7000 year old Swedish hunter gatherer is reconstructed
- British Museum is ‘world’s largest receiver of stolen goods’, says leading human rights lawyer
- Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought
- Terracina: A Cosmopolitan City Near Rome
- Scientists link Neanderthal extinction to human diseases
- Newly discovered motifs in rock art in Sweden show seafaring during the Stone Age
- Ancient Rome: a 12,000-year history of genetic flux, migrations and diversity
- Iron Age Scots used whale bones as containers
- The most amazing fossils trapped in amber
- NASA scientist maps where Earth was in the milky Way when dinosaurs ruled
- Huge trove of Mammoth skeletons found in Mexico
More… - Pre-Viking artefacts emerging from melting ice in Norway
- Newly found rock-carving in western Iran may have link to Mithraism
- 2000-year-old brick structures, Vishnu sculpture unearthed in Andhra Pradesh
- Roman-Era Catacomb Unearthed In Egypt
- 1,300-Year-Old Temple Unearthed In Southeastern Turkey
- Ancient pottery fragment depicting female shaman found in Japan
- Three ancient shipwrecks discovered off Aegean island of Kasos
- Study reveals that humans migrated from Europe to the Levant 40,000 years ago
- Minoan Settlement Uncovered On Tiny Islet
- Exceptional fossils may need a breath of air to form
- Researchers use drones reveal secrets of ancient Florida village
- Results of the recent excavations on the Mycenaean Acropolis of Gla in Boeotia
- A reconstructed Iron Age village (video)
- Tara from above (video)
- Neolithic log boats found near Newgrange
- The Louvre is seeking to buy a statue of Apollo from Pompeii
- Remote sensing – the future of Archaeology
- New finds at Lindisfarne
- A Bronze Age ring cairn discovered in Gloucestershire
- Face of a 1000 year old Viking warrior woman is reconstructed
More… - Britain’s first city – built for the builders of Stonehenge
- Dozens of dinosaur footprints reveal ancient ecosystem of Alaskan Peninsula
- Scientists Now Know Where the Largest Ape to Ever Exist Sits in Primate Family Tree
- A new European ape species identified
More… - When ancient Rhinos Roamed The Yukon
- Genetic imprint of Paleolithic detected in North African populations
- Neanderthal jewelry shows they were more like us than was suspected
More… - 10 Ft statue of the emperor Trajan found in Turkey
- The Staffordshire Hoard – a new look
More… - More details on Otzi the Iceman’s last journey
More: Frozen mosses reveal clues to Iceman Otzi’s final journey
More… - Artio, the Celtic Bear Goddess
- Taranis, the Celtic Thunder God
- The Homeland Of Modern Humans
- Human activities boosted global soil erosion already 4,000 years ago
- A new dinosaur relative documented
- Mutated ferns shed light on ancient mass extinction
November 2019
- Crannogs on Loch Tay
- West Berkeley, California, shell mound update
- Evidence for Medieval Gaelic tattooing
- Tombs of the family of Alexander the Great finally giving up their secrets after 2,300 years
- US ambassador returns to Italy a statue stolen in 1968
- New technique reveals lost splendors of Herculaneum art
- Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals?
- New fossil trove documents recovery of life on Earth after dinosaur-killing asteroid impact
- Making a replica Medieval sword (video)
- The forgotten female Samurai
- Thawing permafrost could see the return of ancient diseases
- New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate
- Face of a Medieval man found in Aberdeen reconstructed
- Restoring ancient text using deep learning: A case study on Greek epigraphy
- New discoveries at ancient Greek city of Tenea
- 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Cylinder Seal Found Turkey
- An ancient Roman sarcophagus found at London building site
- Heuneburg early Celts across classes may have drunk Mediterranean wine in local ceramics
More… - How mammals thrived after the dinosaurs disappeared
- New study suggests the original location of the Bayeux Tapestry is finally solved
- A giant sauropod femur unearthed in France
- Medieval skeletons found at the Tower of London
- Human remains and ‘lavish’ jewels unearthed at Anglo-Saxon burial site in Lincolnshire
- World’s oldest pearl found in Abu Dhabi
- Humans may have lived in the Americas 130,000 years ago, study claims
- Strong winter dust storms may have caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire
- A 3000 year old baby’s skeleton found at the birthplace of Halloween
- Using lasers to read inscribed stones in Orkney
- Bronze Age weapons go on display in London
- Orkney link to a Pictish burial
- A Roman chariot burial with horses found in Croatia
- Cadaver dogs are being used to sniff out archaeology sites in Croatia
- 2,000 year-old tomb unearthed in east China
- Discovered: Unknown Yellow Colors From Antiquity
- Second monumental gate unearthed at Hacılar Great Mound
- Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers
- Lindow Man – a bog body examined
- Artificial islands in Scotland date back to 3700BC, scientists discover
- Mysterious disappearance of Scottish loch’s water exposes parts of ancient settlement not seen since 1300s
- Turkish bombing in Syria damages a 3000 year old temple
- Early humans travelled to Greek islands tens of thousands of years earlier than believed
More… - Bodhisattva Statue Unearthed In Cambodia
- Faces Of Indus Valley People Reconstructed
- Byzantine mosaic revealed near ancient city of Parion in Turkey’s Canakkale
- Oxyrhynchus papyri sold by renowned professor to Hobby Lobby
- A warriors tool kit from the oldest known battle in Europe
More… - Hundreds of new sites found in Northern Ireland
- The “Spanish Stonehenge” (video)
- MKG Hamburg returns 12th-century marble panel to Afghanistan
- 5700-year-old child burial unearthed in eastern Turkey
- Ancient Egyptian funerary equipment workshops revealed at Valley of the Monkeys
- 20 ancient coffins found in Egypt
- Vivid Gladiator Fresco Discovered At Pompeii
- Website provides assistance in repatriating aboriginal ancestor’s remains
- A new kind of Pictish beast found carved onto stones
More… - A Bronze Age metropolis in the Levant
- Social Inequality In Bronze Age Households
More… - DNA study sheds new light on the people of the Neolithic battle axe culture
- Israel cave bones: Early humans ‘conserved food to eat later’
More… - Hoard of Viking coins discovered on the island of Saaremaa
More… - Private property, not productivity, precipitated Neolithic agricultural revolution
- Climate change endangers Scotland’s archaeological treasures
- Archaeology and climate change
- The last mammoths died on a remote island
- Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today
- An exceptional antique necropolis discovered in Narbonne
- 68 early Byzantine gold coins found in northwest Turkey
- Egypt to restore 3,400-year-old sarcophagi of senior official and wife
- Largest intact (skin and guts included) dinosaur mummy every found
- Egypt begins restoration of Tutankhamun’s golden outer coffin
- Bronze Age phallic stone found in Sweden
- New excavation of ‘princely tomb’ of Vix underway
- Insight into competitive advantage of modern humans over Neanderthals
- Achaemenid-era clay tablets returned to Iran after 84 years
- Oldest Miniaturized Stone Toolkits In Eurasia
- Ancient scrolls charred by Vesuvius may be readable once again
- Archaeologists find 1700-year-old gold bracelet in Estonia
- Did an asteroid apocalypse destroy human civilizations 12,500 years ago?
- Man’s name found on the 1100 year old Galloway hoard
- Re-animated 28,000 year old woolly mammoth cells
- A 40,000 year old bracelet made by Denisovans found
- 1,800 year old sports memorabilia from Thrace
- Stone Circles, pictures and lore
- Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming still has accurate astronomical alignments
- Norse mortuary houses of the Viking era
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
- Gene transcripts from ancient wolf analyzed after 14,000 years in permafrost
- Otzi the Iceman (video)
- Opalized fossils from Australia
- Iraq displays stolen artifacts recovered from UK, Sweden
- Statues of Artemis and Apollo unearthed on Crete
- Illyrian God of War temple found in Montenegro
- Archaeologists document the oldest known forerunners of fresco paintings in the Mediterranean region
- Neolithic ‘standing stones’ uncovered on building site in Sion, Switzerland
- Doric Temple Antefix Discovered In Pompeii
- 10,000-year-old engraved ‘pebble’ found near Rome said to be earliest known lunar calendar
- Sunken ancient Greek temple, shipwrecks, coins and jewelry found in Egypt’s submerged city Heracleion
- 15,000-year-old stone tools discovered in Slovakian Cave
- A sign of communal sophistication revealed by finds in Neolithic site of Koutroulou Magoula, Central Greece
- New stories about Indigenous seagoing trade on Australia’s doorstep
- An ancient Roman pen (stylus) with an inscribed joke
- Finds from Celtic grave found in Zurich analyzed
More… - Large Hellenistic sanctuary complex unearthed in Cyprus
- Viking woman warrior in grave was likely Slavic, from Poland
- What the ancient Romans ate
- Changes in human diet shed light on human evolution
- Climatologists and volcanologists clash over Pompeii excavations
- Executed Pictish man may have been royalty, based on diet
- Decorated Neolithic Stone Discovered In Orkney
- Marble torso found in Roman Forum dig
- Neolithic burials, Iron Age site found in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia
- Hundreds of Viking artefacts discovered in northern Russia
- The road to Scandinavia’s Bronze Age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing
- Inscribed Roman road marker found in the Netherlands
- Scientists document late Pleistocene/early Holocene Mesoamerican stone tool tradition
- A winged lion found in Vulci excavation
- Do humans owe their survival to wolves?
- A Gaulish warrior who helped the Brits fight Caesar
- A history of the settlement of Britain
- An Iron Age settlement found in Cambridgeshire
- Tutankhamun golden coffin under restoration for the first time since 1922
- Dripstone cave in Hungary hides ancient treasures
- A Roman mosaic floor in Alexandria
- Ancient Scythian burial mound excavated in Russia’s Stavropol
- Roman coin stash ‘may have been linked to Boudiccan revolt’
- Centuries-Old Nandi Statues Unearthed Near Mysore
- A huge Neolithic settlement found near Jerusalem
- Pre-Columbian stone figures with ‘mysterious markings’ point to ‘lost civilization’ in Puerto Rico
- A new look at the Gibraltar Neanderthals
- A probably Pictish pin
- 2,000-year-old temple floor discovered at Malta’s Tas-Silġ excavations
- Stone tool changes may show how Mesolithic hunter-gatherers responded to changing climate
- A new Neolithic burial mound found in Anglesey
- Aboriginal astronomers that preceded modern science
- Maternal secrets of our earliest ancestors unlocked
- The ancestor of whales looked like a wolf (video)
- 11 photos of Lavish Pieces of Jewelry from Ancient Egypt
- Egypt reopens “bent pyramid” to the public
More… - White-tailed deer were predominant in pre-Columbian Panama feasts
- Dragonesque figures in Celtic art
- Bird with unusually long toes found fossilized in amber
- Climate change threatens Greenland’s archaeological sites: study
- When ancient DNA gets politicized bad things can happen
- The oldest human skull found outside of Africa?
- Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot
- Bones engraved with ochre incisions discovered at archaic hominin site in China
- Did Stonehenge builders use lard to grease sledges to carry stones?
- More stuff you didn’t know about Stonehenge
- Mini model reveals sounds of Stonehenge
More… - Pompeii still has unexploded bombs from WWII
- Gorillas found to live in ‘complex’ societies, suggesting deep roots of human social evolution
- A new raptor-like feathered dinosaur discovered, related to birds
- Strange new species of duck-billed dinosaur identified
- Plague genomes show extent, diversity of massive Roman-era pandemic
- Third-century Greek inscription with names of Dionysus cult found in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv
- Dig reveals bull sacrifices took place in ancient Selinunte
- Lead pollution in Arctic ice shows economic impact of wars and plagues for past 1,500 years
- Ancient molar points to interbreeding between archaic humans and Homo sapiens in Asia
- Artefacts looted from Iraq, Afghanistan to be repatriated
- A Bronze Age pyramid on an island discovered in Greece
- Egypt’s 4000-year-old Lahun pyramid opens to the public
- France returns stolen ancient artifacts to Pakistan
- Tutankhamun bust sells for $6 mn in London despite Egyptian outcry
- Arabian coins dating back 1,000 years found near Baltic coast
- Two boat graves found in Sweden
- Dogs in Celtic culture and religion
- A 700 year old canoe found in Maine
- The Gaul who lost a coin in Palencia
- A Celtic chieftain’s burial from Slovakia
- 6,000-year-old cave paintings discovered in Czech Republic
- Roman gemstones, shoe and gaming board uncovered at Vindolanda fort
- Millet farmers adopted barley agriculture and permanently settled the Tibetan Plateau
- Maize-centric diet may have contributed to ancient Maya collapse
- 3-D printing recreates ancient sculpture destroyed by Islamic State
- Neurosciences unlock the secret of the first abstract engravings
- A dinosaur that ran on one toe
- Dunchraigaig Cairn, Kilmartin, Scotland (video)
- Daily life of the ancient Celts
- DNA identifies who the Biblical Philistines were
- An ancient burial shows ritual use of Cannabis
- Medieval bee keeping
- Coastal Archeology in Scotland
- Roman road and possible mine discovered during Cornish dig
- Capuchin monkeys have been using stone tools for around 3,000 years
- Bonobo diet of aquatic greens may hold clues to human evolution
- A Primate’s Response To Death
- Receding waters of made-made lake in Siberia reveal ancient burial ground
- Tools and weapons dug up in Oman proof of Stone Age settlements
- An ancient Hittite Lunisolar calendar deciphered
- Dozens of mummies dating back 2,000 years found in Saqqara
- Celtic ritual rattles
MAY 2019