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Exclusive: Archaeologist says 5th-century BC wine vase with modern decoration widely regarded as fakeDays after Greece announced the recovery of hundreds of antiquities from a disgraced British dealer, its ministry of culture faces the accusation that …
Revamped Wroxeter Roman City in Shropshire will display beauty items including a strikingly large number of tweezersAs Monty Python fans know, the Romans have done nothing for us apart from giving us sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order,…
Archaeologists begin excavation of two 500-year-old vessels filled with porcelain and timberTwo 500-year-old shipwrecks in the South China Sea, filled with Ming-era porcelain and stacked timber, provide significant clues about the maritime Silk Road tr…
New genetics study finds some of the first arrivals came during the last ice age, and shortly afterThe first humans to arrive in the Americas included people from what is now China, who arrived in two distinct migrations during and after the last ice a…
Jay Stanley hands over 30 artefacts, including vases and figurines from 6th to 3rd centuries BC, found in late father’s homeAn American man has returned 30 antiquities to Italy after reading a Guardian report about a fellow countryman who sent 19 antiq…
Craig Best and Roger Pilling sentenced to more than five years for trying to illegally sell coins worth £766,000Two metal detector enthusiasts who conspired to illegally sell a cache of Anglo Saxon coins which help change our understanding of Alfred th…
Elk tooth pendant unearthed in Siberia is first prehistoric artefact to be linked to specific person using genetic sleuthingScientists have used a new method for extracting ancient DNA to identify the owner of a 20,000-year-old pendant fashioned from a…
Remains of once vast riverside structure granted legal protection against unauthorised changeThree sections of a huge but little-known Roman wall, discovered under the City of London, have been given protected status as scheduled national monuments.The…
Lincolnshire locals are up in arms at an ‘illogical’ order by the council – and even Banksy is thought to be helping them outThe vast sands of Cleethorpes beach can stretch into the horizon at low tide, revealing all kinds of interesting things previou…
Artefacts believed to date back to AD980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumnNearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in north-western Denmark, a local museum h…