Friday, 24 May 2019

Dig it find it Archaeology magazine 24-05-2019

An archaeological dig at land previously owned by former taoiseach Liam Cosgrave has uncovered an extensive medieval burial ground of more than 80 bodies, alongside historical artefacts such as iron …
SAN FRANCISCO – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Deputy Special Agent in Charge Jerry Templet repatriated 10 Greek coins to the Government of Greece, Tuesday, during a reception at the San Fran…
An “astonishing and unparalleled” 2,300-year-old shield made of tree bark has been discovered in Leicestershire, the only example of its kind ever found in Europe. Archaeologists say the discovery of…
Archaeologists are celebrating the scale of an “amazing” 150ft-long Roman building uncovered in Faversham. The structure - the largest of its kind in the county - was unearthed by the Kent Archaeolog…
In the late 1980s, while exploring around the villages of Maharashtra’s coastal Konkan region, Sudhir Risbud came across a big square pattern engraved near the road to the beach town of Ganpatipule. …
The Hague, 21 May 2019 – The winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2019, Europe’s most prestigious honour in the field, funded by the Creative Europe programme, were announce…
Archaeologists believe that a burnt boar scapula found in the ruins of Makimuku in Japan in 2015 may tie the ancient shaman Queen Himiko and leaders of the Yamataikoku ruling establishment with the p…
Sitting on the beach at Whey-ah-wichen, the site of an ancestral village of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and now a park in North Vancouver, Karen Rose Thomas seems at ease watching her two small childre…
New discoveries made at the Klasies River Cave in South Africa's southern Cape, where charred food remains from hearths were found, provide the first archaeological evidence that anatomically modern …
Scientists, including those who study race, like to see themselves as objectively exploring the world, above the political fray. But such views of scientific neutrality are naïve, as study findings, …
The Islamic State surrendered its last scrap of territory, in Baghouz, Syria, this past March. While some argue that celebrations of IS’s demise are premature, there’s no question that the terrorist …
Researchers in Peru have discovered three statues and two faces believed to be from the ancient Caral civilization located on the coast north of the capital, Lima. According to a report on the discov…
A prehistoric forest trees which died more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered on a Welsh beach after low tides and a storm removed a thick layer of sediment. The forest of Borth used to stretch …
The road that goes from Digoh to Ratia in Fatehabad, more than 200 kilometres away from the heart of Gurugram, bears witness to a sense of quietude on a hot summer day. Flanked by farmlands on both s…
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One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than a lox bagel—a century-old popular appet…
Adelasius Ebalchus, who lived in northern Swizterland 1,300 years ago. He was in his late teens or early twenties when he died. Adelasius Ebalchus has a decidedly Latin name for a man who lived in Sw…
Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate student at New York Univ…
ON SUNDAY, I had the privilege to be on a fascinating guided walk led by Dr Fraser Hunter of National Museums Scotland. He is an archaeologist and is a leading expert on the prehistoric and Roman per…
Read: Wait, so how much of the ocean is actually fished? Human appetites and needs are indisputably transforming ecosystems and wildlife in the modern world. But the more clues archaeologists uncover…
Ancient artifacts preserved in snow and ice over thousands of years in Norway's mountains are emerging at an unprecedented rate, and archaeologists are scrambling to collect them all before it's too …

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