Gudin’s one-legged skeleton was found in the summer of 2019 in a park under the foundations of a dancefloor in Smolensk.…
Sebastian Yurtseven discovered the objects in July while clearing out his aunt’s house following torrential rain and flooding in the region.…
The most exciting discovery was that of an intricately sculpted and well-preserved alabaster bust of Alexander the Great.…
A Victorian 3D image thought to be the earliest-known family photograph to have been taken at Stonehenge has been identified in the collection of Queen guitarist Dr Brian May. CA went to see the ‘stereo view’ on display at the monument’s visitor centre.…
The discovery was made as part of a joint research project between maritime archaeologists at Bournemouth University and scientists at Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences.…
In this month’s ‘Science Notes’ we explore recent research by Richard Jones and Louisa Campbell, whose aim was to assess whether portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analysis can offer a quick and affordable way to categorise previously unidentifiable examples of Samian ware.…
The base was probably made in the late 1st or early to mid 2nd century AD by a Continental craftsman…
These are the first examples of wood surviving in situ to be found at the Ness.…
During the excavation, the team uncovered some of the layout of the monastery, showing that it was organised into a series of zones that were demarcated by ditched boundaries.…
'The locations of these hoards are being carefully mapped to provide another piece of information in this jigsaw, so these finds are really important.’…
One of the most significant discoveries the team made was circular ditch monument.…
Arthur’s Stone is protected as a scheduled monument – it is famous for being the possible inspiration for C S Lewis’s ‘stone table’ in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe…
Wax tablet archives revealed that the deceased was a public slave and a custodian of the Temple of Venus.…
Around 168 victims were exhumed shortly after the war, but it was long known that many other graves remained uncovered.…
‘The closure of world-leading departments of archaeology can only be described as short-sighted.'…
Built in AD 122, Hadrian’s Wall stretched 73 miles from the North Sea to Solway Firth and marked the furthest limit of the Roman Empire.…
The Fitted Rigging House at the Historic Dockyard Chatham won The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South East Sustainability Award 2021 for its £8.2m preservation project.…
Its alphabet represents a written language ancestral to Scottish Gaelic, modern Irish, and Manx…
New research has uncovered evidence of the first large-scale atrocity committed in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. Around 30-35,000 people were murdered in the country’s Pomeranian province in the first months of the conflict. One area saw so much violence that it later became known as ‘Death Valley’.…
Researchers propose that knowledge of fire was transmitted across vast regions within a short period of time due to cultural diffusion.…