Welcome to Questions of Doom. In this series, we answer your questions about Archaeology and our shared heritage. Today we tackle Hard Hats… Are they […]
Furness Abbey grave yields treasures of a prosperous medieval abbot
Curators hail discovery of the first crozier excavated in Britain in 50 years and remarkable ring in grave that had escaped robbers
Hope for the Egyptian Nubians damned by the dam
Half a century after the inundation, Nubians may finally have the prospect of compensation for the loss of their homeland
AF: Alexander the… Clean Shaven?
Welcome to Archae-Facts, the place to find bite-sized chunks of Archaeological Trivia! Today we examine just why Alexander had his army shaved? […]
Jeremy Deller’s inflatable Stonehenge gives Glasgow a bounce in its step
The Turner prize winner’s bouncy new interactive artwork, Sacrilege, kicks off the Glasgow international festival of visual art
Centurion has a familiar ring about it, but it’s not because it sticks to the facts
No one knows what really happened to the Ninth Legion, and with its demise early in the movie the film-makers lost the plot
3D Modeling and GIS Technology Aid Archaeology with More Accurate Research
We tend to think of archaeology as a discipline for shovels and artifacts, but according to American Sentinel University, 3D modeling and geographic information systems […]
University of Cincinnati Research Reveals One of the Earliest Farming Sites in Europe
University of Cincinnati research is revealing early farming in a former wetlands region that was largely cut off from Western researchers until recently. The UC […]
QoD: Radioactive Archaeology?
Welcome to Questions of Doom. In this series, we answer your questions about Archaeology and our shared heritage. Today we examine whether archaeological remains can […]
What’s in a surname? New study explores what the evolution of names reveals about China
What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society? That is the question being answered by Chinese researchers who have […]