Discovery News

Virtual simulations demonstrate that Leonardo da Vinci's calculations were totally on mark in his plan to build the masterpiece that never came to be.

The Portsmouth News

The history of the road, which runs from Winchester to Chichester, is to be investigated and people are invited to get involved in a field visit.

IC Publications

Britain has sent back to Egypt some 25,000 ancient artifacts, some dating as far back as the stone age, Egypt's culture minister said on Thursday.

Hexham

Results of a study on how to boost the benefits of having world heritage sites will be outlined at a conference in Northumberland today. The first Hadrian's Wall world heritage site conference is taking place at Hexham Auction Mart.

BBC

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur like creature 10 million years older than the earliest known dinosaurs.

Deccan Herald

Pushing the clock backwards, archeologists have dug up ancient stone tools in Andhra Pradesh, suggesting arrival and survival of modern human beings in India as early as 74,000 years ago.

Examiner

Media outlets are reporting that archaeologists on the "island of Ilheu de Pontinha, just off the coast of Madeira" have found a four inch Roman nail from the time of Christ's crucifixion buried with the skeletons of what appear to be three Templar Knights.

ISRIA

The Ministry of Communications and Works (Department of Antiquities) announces the completion of the second archaeological excavation at the locality  Auli , at the community of Pano Pyrgos, Tillyria.

CZ News

As Jana Marikova Kubkova of Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Science informed CZK while excavation works in Prague Castle Czech archeologists uncoverd fragments of a 9th century moat, a rampart dated back to the 10th and 11th centuries and an unique illustration of that period's Castle buildings.

USA Today

So long "Ida"? A well publicized 47 million year old primate fossil looks like an ancestor to lemurs, not people, concluded a paleontology team Tuesday.