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News Archive

2012 Olympic site unearths Medieval graves

September, 04 2009

Examiner

2012 Olympic site unearths Medieval graves While building a road for the 2012 London Olympics, workers discovered an ancient burial pit containing forty-five severed skulls.

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Bronze Age boat proves a handful for Loch Tay volunteers

September, 03 2009

The Herald

The Bronze Age lived on at Loch Tay yesterday, as a replica of a 3000-year-old logboat successfully completed its maiden voyage.

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Chinese media reports that 100 new terracotta warriors have been found

September, 03 2009

Art Newspaper

Armored General, Qin dynasty (221-206BC). Excavated in 1976 from Pit One. The director of the Terracotta Army Museum (officially titled the Xi' An Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum) and other officials at the institution denied local media reports that a major discovery of 100 new terracotta warriors has been made.

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Computer algorithm to decipher ancient texts

September, 03 2009

Reuters

Researchers in Israel say they have developed a computer program that can decipher previously unreadable ancient texts and possibly lead the way to a Google-like search engine for historical documents.

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Bulgaria Archaeologists Find Relics of Medieval Saint at Perperikon

September, 03 2009

Novinite

Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov shows the two crosses and the seal he discovered at Perperikon over the last week. The team of Bulgarian archaeologist, Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, has discovered relics of a medieval saint at the fortress of Perperikon in the Rhodoppe Mountains.

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Europes oldest stone hand axes emerge in Spain

September, 03 2009

Science News

Researchers say that a stone hand ax, shown here from both sides, that was previously found in a Spanish rock shelter dates to 900,000 years ago, making it the oldest such implement in Europe. Findings suggest that tool advance occurred by 900,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

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Remains of ancient city of Sagalassos to be exhibited in Belgium

September, 03 2009

Hurriyet

Remains of ancient city of Sagalassos to be exhibited in Belgium Findings from excavations at the ancient city of Sagalassos, one of the largest archaeological sites in the Mediterranean, will be exhibited at Belgium's largest archaeology museum Gallo-Romeins.

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164,000 years ago, beach party was invented

September, 03 2009

Globe and Mail

In one of the earliest hints of modern living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.

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Remains found in Gloucester could be centuries old

September, 03 2009

Richmond Times Dispatch

A human skeleton spotted Aug. 20 by a boy in his backyard along the York River still is awaiting examination.

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Domesday Book timbers found in Canterbury Cathedral tower

September, 03 2009

This is Kent

Historic timbers: Carpenter Martin Bennett at Canterbury Cathedral ARCHAEOLOGISTS working on the restoration of Canterbury Cathedral have had wooden beams in its roof dated to the time of William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book.