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Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisationsThe red tape of government bureaucracy spans more than 4,000 years, according to new finds from the cradle of the world’s civilisations…
Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers sayBone fragments unearthed at an ancient cave in Spain belong to the oldest known human face in western Europe, researchers say.The fossilised remains mak…
Archaeologists identify a possible Celtic settlement on the island and believe the trove was hurriedly transported thereThe mystery of why the world’s largest iron age Celtic hoard was buried on the south-east coast of Jersey more than 2,000 years ago …
Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered to between 27,700 and 28,600 years ago
Re-dating of Flagstones monument to about 3,200BC came after analysis by Exeter University and Historic EnglandA prehistoric burial site in Dorset is now thought to be the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain prompting researchers to ques…
More than 450 artefacts from a waka found in pieces in the Chatham Islands expected to reveal new insights about Polynesian voyagingParts of a carved and decorated traditional ocean-going canoe (waka) found in the Chatham Islands, around 800km east of …
A GROUNDBREAKING discovery has unearthed mysterious tunnels which may have been sketched by Leonardo da Vinci over 500 years ago.
The Italian genius, who was a revolutionary mathematician but also an expert in military structures, may have…
Archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circleAn “extraordinary” timber circle believed to be thousands of years old and connected to Stonehenge in England has been discovered in the ground …
Archaeologist believes his ‘find of the century’ – of Pharaoh Thutmose II – could be surpassed by ongoing excavationTo uncover the location of one long-lost pharaoh’s tomb is a career-defining moment for an archaeologist. But to find a second is the st…
Uncovering tomb of Thutmose II hailed as most significant discovery since Tutankhamun in 1922It was when British archaeologist Dr Piers Litherland saw that the ceiling of the burial chamber was painted blue with yellow stars that he realised he had jus…