Category | History & Archeology

Council worker stumbles across 3,000-year-old carving

Posted on 28 June 2010

PREHISTORIC art 3,000 years old was discovered by chance in woodland by a council worker while carrying out routine maintenance work.

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Harold Bluetooth’s Palace discovered

Posted on 25 June 2010

Archaeologists from the University of Aarhus in Denmark have discovered a royal palace belonging to Harald Bluetooth, who ruled both Denmark and Norway during the later years of the tenth century.

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Baby deaths link to Roman ‘brothel’ in Buckinghamshire

Posted on 25 June 2010

Archaeologists investigating a mass burial of 97 infants at a Roman villa in the Thames Valley believe it may have been a brothel.

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Archaeologists find remains of Nevern Castle in Wales

Posted on 21 June 2010

Archaeological excavations on the site of Nevern Castle in Wales has revealed a large group of buildings thought to date from the 12th century. It is hoped that the discovery will provide new details on the history of the Norman fortress that was built in 1108.

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Indo-europeans in Central Asia

Posted on 21 June 2010

There was a time, well before the Turkic population movements, when central Asia was speaking Indo-european languages. During antiquity, Indo-iranian languages were once spoken from the east of Europe up to the Altai mountains of south Siberia (Scythians, Sakas and Sarmatians were such peoples) and down to south Asia.
Nevertheless, prior to this situation, another kind of Indo-european language was apparently present in Asia.

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Excavation at Iron Age hill fort near Melton Mowbray

Posted on 21 June 2010

One of Leicestershire’s most important archaeological monuments is being excavated for the first time in nearly 40 years.

Trenches are being dug up in the Iron Age hill fort at Burrough on the Hill near Melton Mowbray in the hope of finding clues about life from 600BC.

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Orkney Venus closes in on key prize 5,000 years after Neolithic creation

Posted on 18 June 2010

A TINY carved figurine bearing Scotland’s oldest face was yesterday hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Britain in recent years.

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Tests confirm that bones are from a medieval queen

Posted on 17 June 2010

Bones excavated in Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008 are those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth who died in AD 946, experts at the University of Bristol confirmed today. The crucial scientific evidence came from the teeth preserved in the upper jaw. The bones are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial.

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Creswell Crags exhibition explores 200 years of archaeological excavation

Posted on 15 June 2010

Creswell Crags, the limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, has for years offered up its secrets to archaeologists in search of evidence of the Ice Age inhabitants of its mysterious caves.

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Ancient cave paintings found in Romania

Posted on 15 June 2010

Romanian experts have discovered the most ancient cave paintings found to date in Central Europe, aged up to 35,000 years old, Romanian and French scientists said Sunday.

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The Thunderstone Mystery: What’s a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb?

Posted on 15 June 2010

“If one finds something once, it’s accidental. If it is found twice, it’s puzzling. If found thrice, there is a pattern,” the archaeologists Olle Hemdorff and Eva Thäte say.

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British archaeologists fight with Italian farmer to save ancient aqueduct

Posted on 09 June 2010

British archaeologists are battling with an Italian farmer to save the site of an ancient aqueduct which provided Rome with fresh water 1,900 years ago.

Building found during Rochester Cathedral excavation

Posted on 09 June 2010

Archaeologists digging at a cathedral in Kent have unearthed evidence of a previously unknown building.

Historian reveals new insights into medieval rune stones

Posted on 08 June 2010

“The language and factual information of runic inscriptions are fairly well researched, but we know little about how Viking Age people read a rune stone,” says Marco Bianchi at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, whose dissertation investigates Viking Age written culture in the provinces of Uppland and Södermanland.

‘Gladiator burial ground’ discovered in York

Posted on 08 June 2010

The world’s best-preserved gladiator burial ground – the final resting place of warriors who battled wild beasts and each other before being dispatched with a hammer blow to the skull – may have been discovered in York.

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Ancient Beehives Yield 3,000-Year-Old Bees

Posted on 08 June 2010

Honeybee remains found in a 3,000-year-old apiary have given archaeologists a one-of-a-kind window into the beekeeping practices of the ancient world.

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Priest who led campaign to save Viking site is honoured

Posted on 03 June 2010

(Credit where it is due! – Ed)

THE most important Viking settlement ever found in Europe would have been lost forever were it not for an Augustinian priest who led the public campaign to halt its destruction by Dublin Corporation.…

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Face of Stirling Castle warrior reconstructed

Posted on 19 May 2010

A reconstruction has revealed the face of a medieval knight whose skeleton was discovered at Stirling Castle.

Uncovering Nottingham’s hidden medieval sandstone caves

Posted on 17 May 2010

The very latest laser technology combined with old fashioned pedal power is being used to provide a unique insight into the layout of Nottingham’s sandstone caves — where the city’s renowned medieval ale was brewed and, where legend has it, the country’s most famous outlaw Robin Hood was imprisoned.

Sailors’ skeletons from Nelson’s navy among thousands at Haslar

Posted on 17 May 2010

A team of archaeologists who dug up skeletons in Gosport to reveal what life was like in Nelson’s navy will have their work shown on TV.

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