News Round Up

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Science News reports that remnants of two cone-shaped headpieces have been found for the first time in burials in the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna by archaeologist Anna Stevens of Monash University and her colleagues. When…

This year’s Kids in Museums Takeover Day in Penzance created art and curated the collection at Penlee House Gallery As part of Kids in Museums Takeover Day 2019, a group of nine Year 7 students from Mounts Bay Academy curated a new exhibition,…

Gemma Eglinton, Learning Coordinator at the London Museum of Water & Steam, on a turn of the century water-powered vibro-massage machine It’s called an Aqua Vibro Massager and It looks like a kind of metal microphone with a black Bakelite handle…

From bicycles to locomotives and a load of vintage buses – our guide to some of the best transport museums in the UK shows you where to find the engineering triumphs that have changed the world Ulster Transport Museum Holywood The largest railway…

Take a Twelve Days of Christmas tour through the surprisingly festive collection of treasures at Waddesdon Manor A partridge in a pear tree For the first day of Christmas we look to Waddesdon’s Aviary in which we find two different types of…

A project to repair a wall in the 19th-century walled garden at Buckland Abbey, a National Trust property outside Plymouth, has uncovered a number of features associated with earlier phases of the site. The post Medieval structure found at Buckland…

YUCATÁN, MEXICO—According to a report in The Yucatán Times, a team of archaeologists led by José Francisco Osorio León and Francisco Pérez Ruiz of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History has found 1,000-year-old pieces of a limestone…

LOM, BULGARIA—Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that traces of a first-century A.D. fort, including part of a fortress wall, a street with a canal, and a small barracks, have been uncovered at the ancient city of Almus, which is located on the Danube…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a mudbrick wall dating to the New Kingdom period, blocks from colossal royal statues dating to the Middle Kingdom period, and Old Kingdom moulds for the manufacture of faience amulets and capital fragments of…

This book increases understanding of the travel networks of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Using a range of sources, it discusses the evidence for early medieval roads and pathways which shaped the movement and communication of people in the…

Your reviewer has to admit that he may lack entire objectivity when it comes to this book as he is thanked in the acknowledgements and he also commented on the draft in typescript. The author has prepared a concise, informed, well-researched and…

Excavation on the site of an 18th-century drovers’ inn has offered insights into life in an area of the Highlands before the Sutherland clearances. The post Investigating a Highland drovers’ inn appeared first on Current Archaeology.

TŌNISMÄE, ESTONIA—Estonian Public Broadcasting reports that a tenth-century A.D. burial site has been found in the ancient county of Rävala, near Estonia’s northern coast, where cenotaphs made of Viking sword fragments were discovered last year.…

NANCHANG, CHINA—Xinhua reports that archaeologists from the Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have recovered more than 700 artifacts from 73 tombs in eastern China. Most of the tombs in the cemetery have been dated to…

ORKNEY, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that nine roughly shaped stones have been unearthed at the site of a structure located near the center of Orkney’s main island. The objects, which are estimated to be 4,000 years old, stand about 20 inches tall…

Here at the Archaeology Data Service, we believe that the way in which we connect to the past truly matters, and as a result, we are redesigning our website’s homepage.  For the first stage of this, we will be carrying out a survey into how you, the…

From Roman temples dedicated to Mithras to Anglo-Saxon stone crosses, Newcastle’s Great North Museum: Hancock explores an array of beliefs and ways of life in the north of England The post Review – Great North Museum: Hancock appeared first on…

An Early Bronze Age (c.1950-1500 BC) ring-ditch has been excavated by Archaeological Research Services (ARS) above the floodplain of the River Ribble at Clitheroe, Lancashire. The post Early Bronze Age ring-ditch at Clitheroe appeared first on…

JENA, GERMANY—Jennifer Miller of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and Elizabeth Sawchuk of Stony Brook University tested the idea that the size of beads made from ostrich eggshells can be used to track cultural shifts in…

MILAN, ITALY—Massimo Osanna, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, and Luisa Ferro and Giulio Magli of the Polytechnic University of Milan, suggest that images in a floor mosaic in a Pompeian house may be related to the practice of surveying…