Heritage Key

Standing 30 metres high and 160 metres wide, Silbury Hill in England is one of the world's largest man-made prehistoric mounds. It was constructed in the Neolithic, about 25 kilometres north from Stonehenge.

Digital Journal

Police arrested a Bolivian woman who tried to send a Peruvian mummy in a cardboard box to France using regular postal service.

EurekAlert

Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion. With no hope of saving all of these sites, archaeologists Torben Rick from the Smithsonian Institution, Leslie Reeder of Southern Methodist University, and Jon Erlandson of the University of Oregon have issued a call to action for scientists to assess the sites most at risk.

Live Science

A delicate, sophisticated way to craft sharp weapons from stone apparently was developed by humans more than 50,000 years sooner than had been thought.

Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard

EXPERT analysis has shed new light on the history of Cirencester.

Yahoo News

Clad in a white linen tunic, sandals in the ancient Carthaginian style and a pendant and beads like those found with his remains, 2,500 year old "Ariche" has virtually come back to life on the sacred hill of Byrsa where he was born.

Andina

A large tomb dating from ancient Inca times was found in the southern sector of Pueblo Alto of Kuelap fortress, located in the department of Amazonas, director of restoration and conservation Alfredo Narvaez announced.

American Friends of Tel Aviv University

Ancient gardens are the stuff of legend, from the Garden of Eden to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Heidelberg University in Germany, have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the site of Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem, and are leading the first full scale excavation of this type of archaeological site anywhere in the pre Hellenistic Levant.

Billings Gazette

Nearly 1,400 years ago, a member of a nomadic people sheltering in the sandstone recesses of Pictograph Cave discarded a basket woven with willow and milkweed fiber.

This is Kent

HAVING wielded a metal detector for 15 years, a builder finally struck lucky when he stumbled across an Iron Age burial ground.