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Hadrian’s Wall: Archaeologists uncover ‘unknown part’ Excavators working in back garden sites across a housing estate in Benwell, in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne, came across many items and structures hailing from the Roman occupation of Britain. The team’s work has been followed by More4’s documentary, ‘The Great British Dig: History in Your […]
Jon_Clark/Shutterstock An Anglo-Saxon cemetery with skeletons buried among 1,600-year-old ancient treasures was discovered in England. Archaeologists noticed many of the female skeletons were lavishly surrounded by brooches, jewelry, tweezers, and weapons, indicating that the people buried were most likely wealthy. The researchers will conduct more analyses on the unearthed bones and relics to learn more […]
Enlarge (credit: Roberts et al. 2018) Stone tools unearthed in Saudi Arabia’s inhospitable Nefud Desert indicate that members of our genus Homo had ventured beyond the familiar borders of Africa and the Levant sometime between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago. And according to climate data captured in the bones of animals found at the site, […]
Enlarge / Artist’s reconstruction of the east and west mounds at Çatalhöyük. In the foreground, you can see the newer west mound, with the older east mound decaying in the background. (credit: Çatalhöyük Research Project) Around 8,200 years ago, melting glaciers poured fresh, cold water into the North Atlantic, causing the climate in Europe and […]
Enlarge / Some of the stones were still visible in the 1970s. (credit: Frances Griffith, Devon County Council via Historic England) A mysterious set of standing stones in southwest England, lost since the 1990s, will remain missing a little longer. But thanks to the search for them, archaeologists have new data about the ancient landscape […]
Archaeologists uncovered 60,000 previously unknown Mayan structures deep in the Guatemalan jungle using state-of-art laser technology. The find could completely rewrite what we know about the Mayan civilization. Archaeologists are extremely excited. Using state-of-the-art laser technology, archaeologists uncovered over 60,000 previously unknown Mayan structures deep in the Guatemalan jungle, including foundations for houses, military fortifications, […]
Published time: 16 Dec, 2017 17:47 Norwegian archaeologists searching for beer brewing stones got more than they bargained for when their quest uncovered a valuable Celtic artifact “imported” by Vikings from Ireland. The team from the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim, came across the surprising find during their excavation of a church cemetery. The routine […]
A map of the area on the northern Russian steppes where the sacrificial dogs were found. The Krasnosamarskoe settlement was a tiny ritual center, part of the larger Indo-European Srubnaya culture in the late Bronze Age. (credit: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology) 4,000 years ago in the northern steppes of Eurasia, in the shadow of the […]
Google Earth For almost a century, aerial photographers have been documenting mysterious, millennia-old structures built from low walls of stone in the rocky lava fields, known as harrat, in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. This desert region, blistered with volcanic mounds, is nearly devoid of life. But seen from above, the barren ground is covered […]
On the morning of the solar eclipse, archaeologists took a drone into the desert to create fantastic 3-D renderings of a Hohokam village. https://media.wired.com/photos/59c417e303f4cb049ef17d66/master/pass/h4-photogrammetric-modelHP.jpg Feed: All Latest
