Times of India

Sex, politics and beer drinking appear to be among the top day to day activities of people in ancient Mesopotamia, according to a newly translated tablet dating back more than 3,500 years ago.

Nature

Armed with high tech methods, researchers are scouring the Aegean Sea for the world's oldest shipwrecks.

PhysOrg

A mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe in the 11th century according to a new documentary on National Geographic which pieces together the story behind the burial.

Popular Archaeology

The discovery sheds new light on the industry of Mesolithic and Neolithic settlers.

Christian Science Monitor

The Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janerio was the busiest of all slave ports in the Americas and has been buried for almost two centuries.

Popular Archaeology

A new study indicates that social networking is an integral part of humankind's nature, carried down from ancient humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago.

Irish Central

Search is on for legendary Wicklow cross which vanished 60 years ago

AlphaGalileo

New published research from anthropologists at the University of Kent has scientifically supported for the first time the long held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone tools.

Science Daily

A 33,000 year old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient find in a cave in Belgium, indicates that modern dogs may be descended from multiple ancestors.

The York Press

MEN with Viking surnames filled the meeting room of New Earswick Folk Hall and queued to help research into the ethnic origins of the British people.