The wreck of a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1682 while carrying the future King James Stuart has been identified off the coast of Norfolk. The wreckage of HMS Gloucester was actually found in 2007 by two brothers, Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, following a four-year search that covered an area of more than 5,000 nautical […]
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Mass frog burial baffles experts at iron age site near Cambridge | Archaeology
Archaeologists working near the site of an iron age home near Cambridge were perplexed when they uncovered a vast trove of frog skeletons. Quite why more than 8,000 bones had been piled up and preserved is a prehistoric mystery. They were all recovered from a single 14-metre-long ditch, right next to the site of an […]
‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history | Anthropology
Last year a book called The Dawn of Everything announced that most of what we think we know about human history is wrong. Its co-authors, David Graeber and David Wengrow, took aim at the established story that has been repeated by brand writers such as Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker – the […]
‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route | Archaeology
An Anglo-Saxon burial site containing the remains of more than 140 people interred with some of their most favoured objects, including jewellery, knives and even a personal grooming kit, has been discovered by archaeologists working on the HS2 route. The site, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire, contained a “stunning set of discoveries”, said the historian Dan Snow. […]
Amanda Claridge obituary | Archaeology
Amanda Claridge, who has died of cancer aged 72, wrote a much-praised guide to early Rome that remains a phenomenon. Created with the help of several acknowledged colleagues, it is, as one specialist reviewer said, “a triumph of synthesis and astute perception”. It is long: the first edition of Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (1998) […]
Mystery of Waterloo’s dead soldiers to be re-examined by academics | Archaeology
It was an epic battle that has been commemorated in words, poetry and even a legendary Abba song, but 207 years to the day after troops clashed at Waterloo, a gruesome question remains: what happened to the dead? While tens of thousands of men and horses died at the site in modern-day Belgium, few remains […]
Marble head of Hercules pulled up from Roman shipwreck site in Greece | Greece
For archaeologists, it’s the underwater find that keeps on giving. A Roman-era cargo ship, discovered by chance off the Greek island of Antikythera more than 120 years ago and regarded as the world’s richest ancient shipwreck, has yielded yet more treasures in the most recent explorations of it, including the missing head of a statue […]
Inca-era tomb unearthed beneath home in Peru’s capital | Archaeology
Scientists have unearthed an Inca-era tomb under a home in the heart of Peru’s capital, Lima, a burial believed to hold remains wrapped in cloth alongside ceramics and fine ornaments. The lead archeologist, Julio Abanto, told Reuters the 500-year-old tomb contained “multiple funerary bundles” tightly wrapped in cloth. He said those entombed were probably from […]
Pompeii excavation unearths remains of pregnant tortoise | Italy
Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered the remains of a pregnant tortoise that sought refuge in the ruins of a home destroyed by an earthquake in AD62 only to be covered by volcanic ash and rock when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The 14cm (5.5in) long Hermann’s tortoise and her egg were discovered during excavations of an area […]
‘Solitude and awful wildness’: why you should visit Castlerigg stone circle | Culture
It was by accident, more or less, that we visited Castlerigg stone circle on 21 December 2016 – the day of the winter solstice. My partner and I were holed up in the Lake District for a few days after an exhausting year, beset by work stress and political upheavals. The weather was mostly foul […]