Enclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...
Read MoreMonument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populationsFor more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of...
Read MoreSite in Pembrokeshire suggests area was more militarised than previously thought, says expert who made discoveryA previously unknown Roman fort discovered in Pembrokeshire in Wales overturns assumptions that the area’s...
Read MoreImportant collection rediscovered during house-clearing includes numerous rare speciesAn internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years...
Read MoreSensational report that Indonesia’s Gunung Padang site is 25,000 years old is dismissed by archaeologists around the worldIt was one of the most sensational science stories of 2023. Researchers claimed last month that the...
Read MoreExamination of remains in hospital grounds uses DNA analysis and other disciplines to build ‘biographies’Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the “biographies” of hundreds of the...
Read MoreReconstructed rampart structure that stood almost 2,000 years ago will open to visitors in Richborough, KentAn 8-metre-high rampart and gateway built almost 2,000 years ago at the spot where Roman forces invaded Britain has been...
Read MoreTeam at Cairo University conclude teenager was rich and he may point to evidence non-Egyptians were mummifiedA new digital scan has revealed intimate details about a teenage boy who was mummified about 2,300 years ago.A team of...
Read MoreMensun Bound, who found Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, says question of raising wreck is a ‘hot potato’Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, will “decay out of existence” on the Antarctic...
Read More100 years after the discovery of the tomb of the boy king, a previously unpublished letter backs up long-held suspicionsHoward Carter, the archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, was long suspected by...
Read MoreAmenhotep I ‘unwrapped’ digitally by Cairo scientists, revealing details from his grave jewellery to his teethWith his narrow chin, small nose and curly hair he physically resembles his father, said radiologist Sahar...
Read MoreDNA analysis of bodies in Hazleton North long cairn finds five generations of an extended familyAn analysis of DNA from a 5,700-year-old tomb has revealed the world’s oldest family tree, shedding...
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