Hundreds of ancient sites have been discovered by aerial surveys, thanks to a dry start to the summer, English Heritage has said.
Posted on 30 August 2010
Hundreds of ancient sites have been discovered by aerial surveys, thanks to a dry start to the summer, English Heritage has said.
Posted on 28 August 2010
For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.
Posted on 26 August 2010
Oetzi, the 5,000 year old “Iceman” found in the Italian Alps, may have been ceremonially buried, archaeologists claim.
Posted on 26 August 2010
A catastrophic volcanic eruption spewing huge clouds of ash about 3,600 years ago was behind the burial of the Nebra sky disk, one of the most spectacular archaeological finds in recent years, according to scientists at Mainz and Halle-Wittenberg universities in Germany.
Posted on 24 August 2010
Staff at the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have been excited by the results from a recently excavated major Prehistoric site at Asfordby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
Posted on 24 August 2010
Tuesday marks the 1,600th anniversary of one of the turning points of European history – the first sack of Imperial Rome by an army of Visigoths, northern European barbarian tribesmen, led by a general called Alaric.
Posted on 23 August 2010
Second world war bagpipe-player Bill Millin, whose music boosted morale during the D-Day Normandy landings, has died.
Posted on 23 August 2010
Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that’s required to see them as they were thousands of years ago.
Posted on 21 August 2010
Pottery fragments, coins, bones and bits of buildings can survive for centuries, waiting to be analysed, interpreted- and reinterpreted. The sounds of the past, by contrast, have long since died away.
Posted on 18 August 2010
Enormous religious site in French countryside may have been devoted to worshipping many gods.
Posted on 13 August 2010
People have damaged the structure of Bronllys Castle at Talgarth by throwing historic stones off the top, says Welsh monument agency Cadw.
Posted on 13 August 2010
A GOLD ring once worn by a Viking was unearthed by a metal detector in a farmer’s field in Yorkshire, a treasure trove inquest in Wakefield heard yesterday.
Posted on 11 August 2010
A linguistic mystery has arisen surrounding symbol-inscribed stones in Scotland that predate the formation of the country itself.
Posted on 11 August 2010
Long dismissed as accidental additions to Viking graves, prehistoric “thunderstones”—fist-size stone tools resembling the Norse god Thor’s hammerhead—were actually purposely placed as good-luck talismans, archaeologists say.
Posted on 10 August 2010
Built more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge, it provided shelter from the icy winds and storms that battered the nomadic hunters roaming Britain at the end of the last Ice Age.
Posted on 06 August 2010
ROME, Aug. 5 (UPI) — A royal tomb in an Etruscan necropolis in central Italy has yielded fresh archaeological finds during a summer dig, researchers say.
Posted on 06 August 2010
You might never have heard of Irthlingborough, in Northamptonshire, but an excavation there in the 1980s revealed some pretty spectacular archaeology, as explained in the first of a series of HKTV videos.
Posted on 06 August 2010
Archaeologists from North America and the UK have been excavating an early Medieval site in the Isle of Man.
Posted on 01 August 2010
The Yorkshire Museum, home to some of Britain’s greatest treasures, will reopen its doors on Sunday August 1 after a major refurbishment.
Posted on 31 July 2010
Every year thousands of tourists flock to Stonehenge, the iconic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, England. While so much attention is focused on this site, especially with the recent discovery of another monument near Stonehenge, people often forget there’s (sic) more than a thousand stone circles in the British Isles and Continental Europe.