News Round Up

KAZAN, RUSSIA—Samara Polytech announced the discovery of a boat dated to the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century in the Volga River in southwestern Russia. A survey conducted with underwater ultrasound scanners revealed the wreckage measures…

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—According to a report in The Guardian, two shipwrecks thought to be seventeenth-century warships have been found in the Swedish archipelago in a strait that leads to Stockholm. One of the vessels may be the sister ship of the Vasa…

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An ornately carved Pictish stone has been uncovered at an early Christian site in the Dingwall area of the Scottish Highlands. The post 1,200-year-old Pictish cross slab found appeared first on Current Archaeology.

ROME, ITALY—Alfredo Coppa of the Sapienza University of Rome, Ron Pinhasi of the University of Vienna, and Jonathan Pritchard of Stanford University have found traces of Rome’s immigration history in the genomes of 127 people who were buried at 29…

MARDIN, TURKEY—The Anadolu Agency reports that an excavation team under the direction of archaeologist Ergül Kodaş of Artuklu University has found evidence of an 11,800-year-old sewer system at the ancient settlement of Boncuklu Tarla East in…

TULTEPEC, MEXICO—The Guardian reports that two pits containing hundreds of 15,000-year-old butchered bones from more than a dozen mammoths have been discovered in northeastern Mexico ahead of the construction of a landfill site. The straight-sided…

The eighth and final season of excavation at the Roman settlement of Ipplepen in Devon has revealed more information about daily life at the site - including a quantity of 4th-century cattle bones, which provide insights into inhabitants butchering…

ATHENS, GREECE—The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports announced the discovery of a large quantity of Hexaplex trunculus shells, which were used in the production of valuable purple dye, at a Minoan settlement dating to between 1800 and 1500 B.C.…

RENNES, FRANCE—Live Science reports that a computerized tomography (CT) scan of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian cat-shaped mummy held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes revealed a ball of fabric in the cat’s head, and five cat hind-leg…

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—Live Science reports that the 11-million-year-old fossils of four or more individuals from a previously unknown great ape species have been discovered in southeastern Germany. Paleontologist Madelaine Böhme of the University of…

KIRKWALL, SCOTLAND—DNA analysis of whalebone artifacts unearthed at two Iron Age sites in the Orkney Islands has revealed that a vertebra—hollowed out to fashion a vessel containing a human jawbone and the remains of two newborn lambs—came from a…

The Museum of Somerset explores the stark and surreal world of Tristram Hillier with a major exhibition of over 50 works At first glance there’s something quintessentially British mid-century about Tristram Paul Hillier (1905 – 1983), a painter…

Bolton Museum puts the pieces together to reunite two halves of an Egyptian dish dating to 1480 BC What are the chances of finding the missing half of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian dish? Bolton Museum have managed to do just that after an eagle-eyed…

Pippa Griffith, Director Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, on the charismatic inventor John Heathcoat who brought his ideas, factory and workforce to Tiverton, transforming the fortunes of the town John Heathcoat was born in Derbyshire in 1783. A…

The Archaeology Data Service would like to wish everyone a very happy World Digital Preservation Day. We’re excited to be raising awareness of Digital Preservation and celebrating the work that we do. We’re looking forward to reading the DPC’s new…

Ahead of a new exhibition at the National Science and Media Museum, we talk to film curator Toni Booth about forgotten British film pioneer Robert Paul When we talk about the birth of cinema, some people may have heard of the French Lumière brothers…

Ahead of a new exhibition at the National Science and Media Museum, we talk to film curator Toni Booth about forgotten British film pioneer Robert Paul When we talk about the birth of cinema, some people may have heard of the French Lumière brothers…

In 2017, part of a 1,700-year-old mosaic richly decorated with scenes from Classical mythology was excavated during a community project at Boxford, Berkshire. Two years on, its entire surface has been revealed. Anthony Beeson explores the stories…

This latest column from Joe Flatman looks at CA's coverage of Roman villas. He explores their presence in the magazine from the very first issue, with examples ranging from the well-known to the more obscure. The post Excavating the CA archive:…