The long-term project, which started in 2011, has seen the restoration of the ancient bathhouse to protect parts that were left open to the elements.…
A number of the national pavilions artists are drawing on ancient culture and themes from the past.…
Glyphs including a serpent amd anthropomorphic figures wearing regalia were revealed using photogrammetry.…
Remains of a palace at the site emerged from the waters in 2010, and in 2018, when water levels were again low, archaeologists carried out a short campaign, documenting the palace.…
The team believe that the head of the youthful god, depicted with delicate features, was ‘originally conceived as a beheaded figure’.…
Built in the early 14th century, the castle is known for its striking 100ft-high gatehouse and one of the best preserved great halls in the country.…
'This can be claimed as the single most significant historic maritime discovery since the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982.’…
Six Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age timer-posted roundhouses and an array of animal bone and pottery fragments were also uncovered.…
Radiocarbon analysis of well-preserved bison bone fragments revealed the earliest phase of red ochre mining began around 12,840 to 12,505 years ago.…
Analysis of the Pompeian individual's skeletal remains revealed they likely suffered from spinal tuberculosis.…
Among the larger features excavated in the course of the investigations, the team found a 10,000-year-old pit that had been dug into the chalk bedrock, perhaps to catch game such as aurochs.…
The survey work showed that the complex was a ‘courtyard castle’ with corner turrets and a great hall...…
The Tudor vessel sank during the Battle of the Solent in 1545, and its surviving timbers and contents have been undergoing conservation since the wreck was raised in 1982…
All that remains of the abbey above ground since its demolition at the Dissolution of the Monasteries is an arched stone gatehouse.…
Excavations in Crowland, Lincolnshire, are exploring the remains of a structure that might be linked to an Anglo-Saxon anchorite. Project directors Duncan Wright and Hugh Willmott report.…
Excavations at the site have revealed traces of a significant Mesolithic ‘home base’, including evidence of extensive flint-tool manufacturing and major feasting events.…
A community excavation led by DigVentures has unearthed post-holes and artefacts thought to date from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Roman periods.…
‘We’ve been able to diagnose tuberculosis, a possible case of leprosy [a rare find for this period], and syphilis.’…
The new discoveries include a number of small farmsteads and Iron Age enclosures.…
Interviews also revealed memories of cheering on players Jackie Milburn and the Robledo brothers, and of drinking Bovril during half-time.…