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Site director says ‘a kind of camp, a favela’ was founded in the ruins of city destroyed in AD79Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins.De…
Experts say the relics at Piazza Venezia appear to resemble a multistorey complex of homes and shopsThe remains of homes believed to have been lived in by working-class people around the time of the early Roman empire have been found by workers buildin…
THE bloodthirsty ruler who inspired the Dracula legend was buried a thousand miles away from Romania, bombshell new research has claimed.
Vlad the Impaler, also known as Vlad Dracula, was a notorious medieval tyrant who ruled over Wallachi…
A DEVELOPMENT at the site of an old ice cream shop has led to a major discovery.
Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the tomb of a medieval knight beneath the st…
Race against time to study HMS Northumberland as shifting sands expose part of well-preserved wreck off KentThe British warship HMS Northumberland was built in 1679 as part of a wave of naval modernisation overseen by Samuel Pepys, a decade after he ha…
Oil lamp fragments point to presence of previously unknown Jewish population in Ibero-Roman town of CástuloSeventeen centuries after they last burned, a handful of broken oil lamps could shed light on a small and long-vanished Jewish community that liv…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS may have found the oldest burial site in the world – after discovering carefully arranged human remains dating back 100,000 years.
Boffins made the groundbreaking find at a bat-infested cave in Israel – where the…
THE mystery deepens around the famous shipwreck that held the 2,000-year-old relic dubbed the “world’s first computer”.
The Antikythera wreck sank in the first century BC off the Greek island that gave it its name, carryi…
Te Pokohiwi o Kupe (Wairau Bar) in New Zealand holds the remains of first-generation Polynesian settlers
The team have uncovered evidence of an organised hunting and farming community living up to 8,000 years ago