So far, the team have uncovered pottery remains, fish bones, stone yards, and wall structures.…
The #MissingMuseums campaign invites fans of the institution to use social media to share what they missed about its galleries and exhibitions during the last several months.…
'The Saint-Bélec Slab highlights the cartographic knowledge of past societies that we tend to underestimate in the era of the GPS.'…
The 115m long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle Off Samar on 25 October 1944.…
The artefacts, dating from the 9th-17th century AD, all once belonged to wealthy members of Welsh society.…
‘If untreated, the fireplace could crumble quickly.’…
Evidence of Late Mesolithic and Bronze activity has been discovered on a Welsh island.…
During the Second World War, Turing worked at the British Government’s Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.…
The British Museum reports that the snail-man mount could have been the medieval equivalent of a modern-day ‘meme’.…
The discovery includes a trench containing three hearths and hundreds of pottery fragments, as well as stone tools and a storage pit – all evidence of salt production.…
The recent conservation of a small figurine thought to represent the Celtic god Cernunnos has revealed new details that call the identification into question.…
Post-excavation analysis of the many finds discovered on Highways England’s A14 Cambridge-to-Huntingdon improvement scheme (see CA 339) has revealed a rare Roman millstone carved with a prominent phallus.…
Earliest known rock art ever found in Indonesia; skulls relating to sacrificial ceremony found in Tenochtitlan; German enigma machine discovered in Bay of Gelting.…
Scientific analysis of some enigmatic burnt features found in several Anglo-Saxon settlements across the east of England has provided new insight into early medieval cooking practices.…
A massive incised rock has recently been discovered at the northern end of the Bay of Skaill in Orkney.…
A newly published report from GUARD Archaeology has revealed evidence for the Iron Age inhabitation of St Kilda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and isolated archipelago located 64km west of the Outer Hebrides.…
The largest and most-complete late Bronze Age spearhead to be found in the Channel Islands has been discovered in Jersey, sparking questions about the ritual practices of the prehistoric islanders.…
The team from the ORAU and a group of researchers from across Europe have applied a compound-dating technique to Neanderthals, this time from Belgium, and once again the results have caused a re-evaluation of the timeline of Neanderthals in Eurasia.…
Detailed study of the injuries to Seqenenre’s head has indicated that they were caused by several different weapons, suggesting that he was killed by multiple attackers…
Excavations in Mexico City have discovered a new section of the Aztec skull rack known as the Huei Tzompantli.…