The rising and setting of the sun at Stonehenge, especially during the summer and winter solstices, continues to evoke joy, fascination and religious devotion. Now…
View More Rare lunar event to shed light on Stonehenge’s links to the moonTag: Archaeology
Banquet room with preserved frescoes unearthed among Pompeii ruins
A banquet room replete with well preserved frescoes depicting characters inspired by the Trojan war has been unearthed among the ruins of Pompeii in what…
View More Banquet room with preserved frescoes unearthed among Pompeii ruins‘Truth behind the myths’: Amazon warrior women of Greek legend may really have existed
In Greek legends, the Amazons were feared and formidable women warriors who lived on the edge of the known world. Hercules had to obtain the…
View More ‘Truth behind the myths’: Amazon warrior women of Greek legend may really have existedShells from Captain Cook’s final voyage saved from skip
An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been…
View More Shells from Captain Cook’s final voyage saved from skip‘Very rare’ clay figurine of Mercury discovered at Roman site in Kent
A “very rare” clay figurine of the god Mercury, one of fewer than 10 ever found in Britain, has been discovered at a previously unknown…
View More ‘Very rare’ clay figurine of Mercury discovered at Roman site in KentRoman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 years
It was a wonderful find as it was, a cache of 1,700-year-old speckled chicken eggs discovered in a Roman pit during a dig in Buckinghamshire.…
View More Roman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 yearsValley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon
Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. A…
View More Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in AmazonCold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts
Declassified cold-war spy satellite images have thrown new light on the workings of the Roman empire by revealing hundreds of previously undiscovered forts, with dramatic…
View More Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space
It was meant to be a grand gesture that would raise the profile of South African science – by allowing fossil bones found at the…
View More ‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into spaceSeaweed was common food in Europe for thousands of years, researchers find
It may be considered an unusual ingredient in western cuisine, cropping up in a fancy cookbook or local delicacy. But it turns out that seaweed…
View More Seaweed was common food in Europe for thousands of years, researchers find