It is believed that this group may represent a Viking population who had settled in Oxford for some years.…
The team from the University of Exeter applied their formula to 1,366 domestic fowl skeletons found across Britain, ranging in date from the Iron Age through to the modern day.…
Measuring 160mm by 215mm, the stone depicts a naked male figure holding a spear and standing in front of either a horse or a donkey.…
Next to the sarcophagus, a possible votive offering, consisting of a small pot containing what also appears to be cremated remains.…
Excavations revealed old foundations, as well as bricks and pottery, dating to the late 18th century.…
The Irish and Manx coins depict the profile of King Sihtric Silkbeard, who served as Norse King of Dublin around AD 989 to 1036.…
Only ten other stones of this kind have been discovered in Rome – the last was unearthed 100 years ago.…
These new discoveries could indicate that the harsh treatment on these prison ships was not a punishment solely reserved for men.…
‘Even during Plague outbreaks, individual people were being buried with considerable care and attention.'…
It may be ‘the only intact domestic building to have survived from the Saxon period.’…
The first excavations began in April 2021, and were focused entirely upon Tell al-Duhalia, which is home to hundreds of archaeologically significant sites, such as the Great Ziggurat of Ur.…
The work is a continuation of investigations started in 2017 by the University of York to deepen our understanding of the castle’s history.…
Tests indicate that the woman was between 20 and 30 years old and was 26-28 weeks pregnant at the time of death.…
Excavations in the Bronze Age cemetery at Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, are shedding light on trade networks and complex burial practices, as Peter M Fischer and Teresa Bürge explain.…
At the excavated mustatil, archaeologists uncovered an assemblage of cattle horns and skull fragments interpreted as an offering, perhaps related to a ‘cattle cult’, further supporting the ‘ritual’ interpretation of these sites.…
The site, which was first excavated in the 1940s, has a unique stratigraphic record containing evidence of human activity from the Early Stone Age to the present day.…
Eight of the ten beads were found at Punyik Point, a site in the Brooks Range, located on ancient trade routes from the Bering Strait to the Arctic Ocean.…
It is evident that the sites were reused over time, well into the historic period, and had retained some kind of ritual significance when the later burials took place in the 9th-13th century AD.…
'It takes us back to the tumultuous time of Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.'…
Further analysis revealed the genome derived from a female individual, or multiple females.…