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Historic Scotland has launched an online gallery of 400 objects, organised so that visitors can easily search by theme, date, type or property where it is housed. More than 35,000 objects housed in...
A surprise discovery The Bronze Age burial urn, with cremated remains were found in Clinton Lane during routine archaeological evaluations of foundation trenches being dug for a small housing devel...
The large excavation was conducted in 2011 and had been subdivided it into eleven sites (A-K), the report has had to wait for the specialist reports in order to be completed. Most of the barrack b...
The site was photographically recorded by Tracey Smith prior to its conversion into flats, which retained the the important external features of this unlisted Victorian building. Initially the Plan...
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The project’s first report (published 2014) introduced the project in general terms (aims and methodologies), and the following reports will present the results of work carried out in the field, mu...
Pack of 5 small black and white plastic arrows (6cm long), ideal for indoor or outdoor photography.
Three shipwrecks lying in the Gulf of Gdańsk have been documented in 3D. This innovative method allows underwater archaeologists to work effectively even with minimal visibility.
Roman Baths that lay hidden near Exeter Cathedral for nearly two thousand years could be excavated and opened to the public.
“Is There An Archaeologist Onboard” is a short film introducing the viewer to one of the most important methods of discovering the past. Archaeologist Prof. Wlodek Rączkowski and pilot-archaeologis...
Aircraft based on drawings and text of Vyamanika Shastra cannot fly...
During autumn 2014, Czech archaeologists exploring a tomb which forms part of a small cemetery to the southeast of the funerary complex of King Raneferef, believe they have found the burial place of his wife.
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Rufford Abbey is now a popular country park, visited every year by hundreds of thousands of people and a pink granite column-drum was previously thought to be a piece of landscape art, but now bee...
A detailed study The detailed osteological study of over 700 individuals from excavations undertaken between 2009–2011 produced exciting glimpses into life, disease, accident and injury from the No...
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded the three-year project directed by Professor Mark Ormrod, of the University of York’s Centre for Medieval Studies, who headed a team of resear...
Crossrail-led research identifies names and backgrounds of over 5,000 people buried in the infamous Bedlam burial ground A notorious criminal murdered by the mob; political activists and plague vic...
The presumed emblematic value of quartz in prehistory may have been important in portable material culture; one suggestion is that the small decorated pebbles may have been used as charm-stones. Pa...
The Historical Thesaurus of English is the only online resource to make every word from the last 1,000 years and its meaning available to the public and fully searchable.
Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society say hunting by humans appears to have significantly cut mammoth populations in western Europe around 30,000 y...
One of the earliest detailed descriptions of Roman antiquities in Scotland, with 51 map plates and 174 pages of supporting text. This website is a complete electronic facsimile of the original. Man...
While architectural developments in Rome, Pompeii, and Central Italy are highlighted, the course also provides a survey of sites and structures in
The region has 11 archaeological sites full of mystery and beauty.
Study traces maize’s invasion of North America
National media coverage has suggested a Middle Age coin hoard, found in Buckinghamshire just before Christmas, could be worth £1 million. Ros Tyrrell, the county's in-demand archaeologist, hopes that could be wide of the mark.
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