'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.…
Otto the Great possessed significant influence over the papacy, and to revive Catholicism throughout central Europe ordered the construction of many lavish churches.…
At the auction, the museum acquired three lots belonging to Chard: a small archive of material relating to his life; a manuscript copy concerning the battle; and surveying and drawing instruments in a wooden case belonging to the Lieutenant.…
The site is dedicated to Henry Paget, who was second in command under the Duke of Wellington and leader of the allied cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.…
The individuals were killed and buried in a civil cemetery at Almagro, in the Ciudad Real region of Spain, between 1939 and 1940.…
Repair work will be carried out on the largest surviving remains of the walls of the castle, which was built on the orders of William the Conqueror between 1067 and 1071.…
Lightly armoured amphibious landing craft, Buffalo LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked), were used by the Allies in the crossing of the Rhine and Elbe rivers in March 1945.…
The story of the Holocaust will be told through 2,000 photos, books, artworks, and letters, as well as personal objects from toys to jewellery.…
'Based on the character and distribution of the tooth marks, the most likely species responsible was either a tiger shark or white shark.'…
The timber is in such an excellent state of preservation, due to its waterlogged burial environment, that the carpenter’s markings are still visible.…
Archaeologists have stated that a monument at the Banat-Bazi complex is over 4,000 years old.…
Preserved within the limestone casket and lid were the remains of an individual interred in a prone position (face-down), and the partial remains of another laid at their feet.…
The high bacterial load of plague bacterium in their bloodstream indicates it was likely transmitted through the bite of an infected rodent, resulting in septicemia plague.…
This identification of Cornish gold in Central Europe indicates that there was probably contact between these two regions during the Bronze Age, and perhaps even a well-established trade route.…
Isabella (c.1427-1494) was the second daughter of James I of Scotland, and was given the manuscript by her husband, Duke Francis I of Brittany, on their marriage.…
In this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we are looking at a recent study from a team of researchers led by Aleksandar Kostic from Harvard Medical School, which analysed examples of palaeofaeces, or coprolites, from the Americas.…
Of the 52 human remains recovered from the three cemeteries, 17 of the bodies had been decapitated and 13 were prone, with six burials involving both practices.…
The skeleton of a Roman man with iron shackles locked around his ankles has been described as ‘perhaps the most convincing candidate for the remains of a Roman slave yet to be found in Britain’. Current Archaeology's Carly Hilts reports on recently published analysis illuminating this unique burial.…
A team of researchers has identified 140,000-year-old fossilised remains found in Israel as belonging to a previously unknown type of ancient hominin, which may have been an early precursor of Neanderthals that co-existed alongside other prehistoric groups, including Homo sapiens. At the Nesher Ramla site in Israel, excavation work uncovered…