Last summer two Galway archaeologists proposed a theory which made worldwide headlines. They suggested that one of the most common archaeological monuments in the Irish landscape may have been used for brewing a Bronze Age Beer. They will demonstrate and…

RARE artefacts dating to the time of the Vikings have been put on permanent display in a Swedish museum after being excavated by a team led by the University of Chester’s Dr Howard Williams.

Working in partnership with archaeologist, Dr…

In the epic “Odyssey,” one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the legendary Greek hero Odysseus returns to his queen Penelope after enduring 10 years of sailing the wine dark sea.

Now scientists have pinned down his return to…

Julius Caesar landed an invasion fleet on the shores of Britain in 55 B.C., expanding the boundaries of the so-called “Known World” and inadvertently sparking a dispute between historians and scientists for centuries to come.

Now, astronomers from Texas State…

A replica Viking vessel plying the North Sea this month is part of an effort to learn more about what the Norsemen were really up to.

From his bench toward the stern of the Sea Stallion From Glendalough, Erik Nielsen…

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have begun excavating a quarry near Wrexham after evidence of a Neolithic settlement was uncovered.

The exciting discovery was made at Tarmac’s Borras Quarry, off Holt Road, near Wrexham and archaeologists have begun to uncover the remains of the…

The archaeologist team of Bulgaria’s Georgi Kitov has unearthed precious jewels dating back to the second or third century A.D. in the Drumeva Mound near the city of Sliven.

The news was announced by Kitov himself on Thursday.

The scientists…

Goettingen, Germany – An autopsy on the body of an ancient Scythian cavalier found in the Altai Mountains shows he had a degenerative bone disease for several years before he died, German scientists said Friday. The 2006 find of the…

Archeologists are due to start digging in Tjarnargata in the centre of Reykjavík in so called Althingisreitur or Althingi’s spot right by Iceland’s parliament, Althingi.

“We have discovered many interesting remains there. It could be possible remains from the…

AN amateur archaeologist has been given a lottery grant to help him dig into Bolton’s hidden past.

Paul Kay, the founder of the Bolton Cambrian Archaeological and Historical Society, believes the moors around Bolton and Lancashire have secrets to be…

Archaeologists from Cardiff University today began excavating part of the remains of the 2,000 year old Roman Fortress in Caerleon, Newport.

Led by Dr Peter Guest, of the School of History and Archaeology, the team of 50 archaeologists from Cardiff…

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide ‘renewable petroleum’“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late…

More than 1,600 pairs of wading birds and ducks have had their nests destroyed by flooding in a wildlife catastrophe in the Cambridgeshire fens. Nearly 600 pairs of increasingly scarce ground-nesting waders – lapwing, snipe and redshank – have lost…

Ten new clean, green ‘eco-towns’ will be built by 2020. And pigs might fly, say critics. They argue that the government is bulldozing through a programme that will create the slum estates of the future.This is how it will be.…

Ottery St Mary The first beaver dam to be built in England for 800 years has been erected on the River Tale in Devon by a pair of the rodents that were brought from Bavaria last year.John-Michael Kennaway, of the…

Blackbirds and greenfinches have been identified as the next native birds likely to suffer a devastating population slump.An evolutionary family tree has shown they are closely related to species of birds that have already undergone a severe decline.Animal family…

The current system for coping with high rainfall and swollen rivers is fundamentally flawed and it is still unclear who is responsible for drainage, said the Local Government Association.“There are glaring gaps in this country’s readiness to cope with widespread…

A roe deer with a single horn in the middle of its head has found fame as the “Unicorn” of Tuscany.The 10-month-old deer was born in captivity at the Centre of Natural Sciences, a nature reserve near Prato.While single-horned deers…

A treasure trove of artefacts is being recovered from what experts describe as one of the most important maritime discoveries since the Mary Rose.

The late 16th Century shipwreck hails from a pivotal point in England’s military history. …

Deep sea divers have found the wreck of a Royal Navy warship which sank during the American Revolution.

The discovery of HMS Ontario, at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes on the US-Canada border, has been hailed…