News Round Up

Sophie Riches, curator at the British Orthodontic Society Museum in London, on their collection of eerie masks showing the development and growth of the face George Northcroft (b.1869) was a notable dentist who had an interest in the growth and…

VESTFOLD, NORWAY—News in English reports that a team of researchers has detected the outline of what may be a Viking ship burial using ground-penetrating radar near other Viking burial mounds in Borre Park, which is located in southeastern Norway.…

TEHRAN, IRAN—According to a report in Nature, the 4,000-year-old remains of a young rhesus macaque have been unearthed in the cemetery at Iran’s site of Shahr-i Sokhta, or “Burnt City,” located at the junction of Bronze Age trade routes that crossed…

NANJING, CHINA—Xinhua reports that a sealed pottery jar filled with eggs—all but one unbroken—was discovered in a 2,500-year-old tomb in east China’s Jiangsu Province. Archaeologists plan to use X-rays to determine how many of the delicate eggs are…

ALERIA, CORSICA—Reuters reports that an Etruscan tomb dating to the fourth century B.C. has been uncovered in Aleria, on the east side of the island of Corsica, by a team of researchers led by Franck Leandri of the French National Institute of…

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA—Live Science reports that more than 100 inscriptions carved into rock and 45 ostraca have been uncovered at Wadi el-Hudi, an ancient Egyptian amethyst mine in the Eastern Desert of southern Egypt. The inscriptions,…

ROME, ITALY—Alberto Bonisoli, Italy’s culture minister, handed over nearly 800 artifacts to Luo Shugang, China’s minister of culture, at a meeting at the National Roman Museum Palazzo Altemps, according to a CNN report. The artifacts came to light…

HAIFA, ISRAEL—According to a Live Science report, evidence from trash mounds near the site of Elusa, which is located in Israel’s Negev Desert, reflect the city’s struggles at the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the Justinian plague.…

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, medieval historian Benjamin Pohl of the University of Bristol found an 819-year-old royal charter carrying King John’s wax seal in the archives of Ushaw College Library, which is managed by Durham…

A new study proposes links between the locations of Easter Island’s famous ahu and moai and freshwater sources. Robert J DiNapoli discusses the results and their implications. Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by its inhabitants, represents one of the…

The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons’. Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence (The Z List Dead List) presents snippets from exclusive Members’ lectures at the Museum,…

The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute have once again teamed up with Orkney College UHI Art Department to offer the popular summer Art & Archaeology workshop for 2019. Dates: 2nd – 5th July 2019 Time: 9.00-5.00 each…

Ness of Brodgar Site Director Nick Card was invited by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to give a lecture in Xi’an this month – the birthplace of Chinese Civilisation and home to the… Continue reading →

St Albans Museum + Gallery is hosting a Barbara Hepworth exhibition that draws on the values the artist explored in the 1950s when she produced three public artworks for the Hertfordshire town The phrase which forms the title of this exhibition is…

A timely photographic journey into the Islamic world spans the centuries by drawing on historical and contemporary imagery at Asia House A celebration of historical diversity and a reminder of what has been lost or weakened by cultural destruction,…

A fresh perspective on Pompeii and Herculaneum In the wake of the highly successful Expanded Interiors exhibition at Pompeii and Herculaneum, Catrin Huber and Ian Haynes reflect on what contemporary fine-art practice can reveal about Roman…

Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum has launched a fundraising campaign to buy, conserve and interpret an intriguing hoard of Bronze Age treasure found in a field in Dawlish The Dawlish Hoard was discovered in 2017 by metal-detectorists from the…

This year’s photo competition has seen an outstanding range of archaeological images from around the world flood into the CWA office. We’ve found ourselves transported to remote excavations, magnificent monuments, and spectacular sites near and far…

Twenty eight years of archaeological excavations and interpretation go into a new report revealing the richness of archaeology and history at Segedunum and Wallsend on Hadrian’s Wall A new archaeological report tells the story of the most excavated…

It may be the royal tombs that spring to mind when we think of the Valley of the Kings, but you did not have to be pharaoh to secure space in the cemetery. More modest tombs exist in greater numbers, although the identity of many of their occupants…