Golden mummies share their secrets
Many of the amulets are made of gold, including a golden tongue inside the mouth
funerary archaeology
Treasures of Roman Yorkshire
Review by Peter Halkon As the cover note states, this is an accessible introduction to the major artefacts and sites within the county. As Adam is a member of the curatorial staff at the Yorkshire Museum in York, the book’s…
Gladiators: a cemetery of secrets
Almost 20 years ago, York Archaeological Trust were excavating part of a Roman cemetery when they uncovered dozens of decapitated skeletons. Were these the remains of gladiators? An exhibition at Cirencester’s Corinium Museum sets out the evidence, as Carly Hilts reports.
Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age
Review by Edward Caswell This book provides a new and welcome synthesis of a particularly enigmatic group of Bronze Age ceramics, which have been variously named, but which the authors choose to classify, justifiably, as cups. Drawing on a large…
Tutankhamun Quiz
In which year is Tutankhamun thought to have been born?
New discoveries in Nîmes
The excavations revealed at least 50 burials dating to the Roman period, including inhumation graves, cremation urns, and signs of funerary pyres.
Evidence of Mesolithic mummification discovered in Portugal
Until now, the earliest evidence for intentional human mummification came from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, c.7,000 years ago.
Terracotta dog found in Rome
It was uncovered at a construction site in the Via Luigi Tosti, which joins Via Latina, home to a number of large tombs.
Mummified human remains discovered at Pompeii
Wax tablet archives revealed that the deceased was a public slave and a custodian of the Temple of Venus.
Reopening graves a widespread practice in early medieval Europe, research reveals
The practice appears to have begun in central Europe sometime before the 6th-century AD, and then spread across the continent before reaching its peak around two-hundred-years later.
Museo Nazionale: An Etruscan Renaissance in Florence
While there are impressive artefacts from all periods within, including a fantasy courtyard made from sculptural fragments of Roman Florentia, its glory is really the series of Etruscan antiquities.
Grave Disturbances: the archaeology of post-depositional interactions with the dead
Grave Disturbances focuses on a much-neglected area of funerary archaeology. Disturbed human remains are frequently encountered within burial contexts, but are often given scant attention in comparison to more complete remains in expected anatomical configuration. The case studies in the…
Q&A with Lauren McIntyre – an introduction to human osteology
That's why skeletal remains and mummies are so popular in museum exhibitions - people can relate to them in a way that not everyone can relate to other archaeological finds such as pottery.