Independent archaeologist Steve Dickinson has identified a large earthwork on the West Cumbrian coast as the possible burial ...

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Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why ...

A passage leading to a sealed door Speaking at a public panel, veteran Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced that advanced ...

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Researchers in Brazil think they may have discovered the earliest known evidence of whaling. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, harpoons found in museum ...

For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was ...

If they’re lucky, archaeologists find bones, pottery, stone tools, beads and other sturdy remnants of the past. However, they’re less likely to unearth wooden artifacts, which tend to disintegrate ...

A group of volunteer archaeologists excavating the remnants of a Gallic site on the north coast of France has discovered a 200-year-old message from a previous archaeologist. In recent years there has ...

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