News Round Up

CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that Egyptian and German researchers from the University of Tübingen discovered an additional burial chamber at the bottom of a communal…

Excavations on the site of Tetley’s Brewery in Leeds have revealed intriguing insights into the 18th- and 19th-century development of the city. Carried out by Archaeological Services WYAS, the investigation explored buildings along Hunslet Lane,…

There can be no doubt that we are experiencing a major international crisis that affects all our lives, all of the time at the moment. It would appear that this crisis may indeed change the way we do things for… Continue reading →

There can be no doubt that we are experiencing a major international crisis that affects all our lives, all of the time at the moment. It would appear that this crisis may indeed change the way we do things for… Continue reading →

2020 marks 100 years since the creation of the ‘Research Laboratory’ – a space for developing and conducting scientific research and conservation on the British Museum collection, which would later become the Departments of Scientific Research and…

On 1 July 2019 two metal trunks were opened at Heathrow Airport after catching the attention of an eagle-eyed Border Force officer. They were consigned from Bahrain to a private address in the UK. The trunks were found to be filled with what…

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—Live Science reports that two Bronze Age burials situated within a circular ditch were unearthed in southwestern England by a team including Andy Hood of Foundations Archaeology. The first burial, placed in the center of the…

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—The Copenhagen Post reports that a tunnel was discovered during construction work at the Østerport light rail station in Copenhagen. The tunnel measures about three feet tall and was lined with wood dated to the late nineteenth…

JENA, GERMANY—A recent study suggests that three men buried some 500 years ago in a cemetery at a colonial hospital in Mexico City belonged to the first generation of Africans to arrive in the New World, according to a report in Science Magazine.…

Recent DNA analysis of whalebone artefacts found at The Cairns, Orkney, has shed light on the relationship between these marine mammals and the site’s Iron Age community, as well as hinting why the large local broch may have been demolished in the…

SZEKSZÁRD, HUNGARY—A new study led by Corina Knipper of the Curt Engelhorn Center of Archaeometry suggests that central Europeans who practiced skull-binding lived alongside other cultures in the Roman province of Pannonia Valeria, in what is now…

ZAGREB, CROATIA—Croatia Week reports that the remains of an Avar warrior dating to the late seventh or early eighth century A.D. have been found in a tomb in eastern Croatia, near the site of the Roman city of Cibalae. The Avars were Eurasian nomads…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—According to a statement released by University of Chicago Press Journals, Vera Tiesler of the Autonomous University of Yucatán and Guilhem Olivier of the National Autonomous University of Mexico compared skeletal evidence of…

POREČ, CROATIA—According to a Croatia Week report, a 16-foot boat held together with rope and wooden pegs has been uncovered at the waterfront in the city of Poreč, which is located on the western coast of the Istrian Peninsula. The boat is…

Stacey Anne Bagdi, Collections & Exhibitions Officer (Curator) at Headstone Manor and Museum in Harrow shares some of the stories of VE Day collected from locals who were there On May 7 1945, the nation tuned in to the announcement that war was…

Grace Evans, Keeper of Costume at Chertsey Museum, on the extraordinary collection amassed by Olive Matthews Chertsey Museum, located in a Georgian town house in Windsor Street, Chertsey is a unique and special place of discovery and delight, which…

Tyne and Wear Museums peels back the layers of Heavy Metal history to tell the North East’s story of head banging and air guitars Blitzkrieg, Raven, Tygers of Pan Tang, Atomkraft; those of us not so au-fait with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (…

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Warwick, scientists from the University of Warwick and the University of Ghent employed X-ray technology to examine tiny brass links recovered from the wreckage of Mary Rose,…

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a report in the Ely Standard, archaeologists from England’s National Trust and Oxford Archaeology East found outlines of buildings during a geophysical survey at Anglesey Abbey, which is located in the East of…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that rock art has been discovered in a cave at Wadi Al-Zulma in North Sinai. Aymen Ashmawi of the Ministry of Antiquities said the images resemble a raised relief style and are thus different from those found in…