News Round Up

POSEDARJE, CROATIA—Total Croatia News reports that Mato Ilkić and Mate Parica of the University of Zadar have found the remains of a port in the western Novigrad Sea, a bay at the foot of the Velebit Mountains, that sheds new light on Liburnia’s…

JENA, GERMANY—Cosmos Magazine reports that an international team of scientists analyzed DNA samples from 93 people who lived on islands in the Caribbean Sea between 400 and 3,200 years ago, and found evidence for at least three waves of migrants.…

BERGEN, NORWAY—According to a Life in Norway report, researchers led by Morten Ramstad of Bergen University Museum discovered Iron Age game pieces in a burial cairn in western Norway. The site, known as Ytre Fosse, is located on the sea route…

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, Keith Prufer and an international team of researchers analyzed the chemical composition of the bones of 52 people who lived in what is now Belize between…

OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Oxford, Greger Larson and his colleagues developed a metric using genetic distances to predict fertility in the offspring of crosses between any two mammal species. The study…

The Cairns Excavation Site Director & University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Lecturer Martin Carruthers talks about the multi cultural experience of Iron Age society in Orkney as the exploitative Roman Empire appeared in…

United States Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William J. McGowan was 23 years old when he died near the village of Moon-sur-Elle in northern France. McGowan had grown up in the small town of Benson in western Minnesota, where he loved to ski. He attended…

CHEORWON, SOUTH KOREA—KBS World Radio reports that more than 130 human bone fragments were unearthed this spring on the South Korean side of Arrowhead Ridge. The area rests inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a two and one-half mile-wide buffer…

MIYAZAKI, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that writer Akira Kitade has tracked down a visa issued by Saburo Nei, an acting Japanese consul-general in the Soviet Union, to Simon Korentajer, a Jewish refugee who fled to Vladivostock ahead of the Nazi…

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA—The Tampa Bay Times reports that a ground-penetrating radar survey has identified a fourth lost African American cemetery in the Tampa Bay area. Jeff Moates of the Florida Public Archaeology Network said that only about one-fifth…

ROME, ITALY—Massimo Osanna, director general of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, announced that excavators working at the villa of Civita Giuliana, which is located to the north of the ancient city, unearthed a covered walkway, or cryptoporticus,…

The latest face to emerge from the distant past is a medieval priest from Lincoln Most experts agree that historical facial reconstruction techniques do not create exact likenesses, but rather a close representative image of a particular person –…

As Sir John Soane’s Museum pitches its weirder objects against each other on Twitter, we take a look at some of our favourites Architect John Soane negotiated a private Act of Parliament in 1833 to preserve his London house and collection, exactly…

You may have seen our favourite museum YouTube accounts, now it’s time to explore our favourite UK museum podcasts. Whether it’s comical chats on the art of caterpillar taxidermy or serious discussions on the history of looted objects, there’s…

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is shocking. The subsequent protests, the explosion of pain, indignation and rage in America and across the world, have brought home how deep the experience of racism is for so many in our societies. The…

No preservation format is perfect. While physical mediums such as paper can last centuries under proper conditions, it is that qualifier that is key to its longevity. Everyone has seen what can happen to paper when it gets wet. Similarly, there are…

TUCSON, ARIZONA—Analysis of pottery unearthed in downtown Tucson suggests that Spanish soldiers on an expedition in what is now New Mexico in 1795 may have transported Zuni pottery souvenirs back to the Presidio Real de San Agustín del Tucson, which…

TABASCO, MEXICO—The Guardian reports that a team of researchers led by Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona has detected a large, rectangular platform made of earth in southern Mexico with the use of lidar technology, which employs lasers to…

PRAIRIE GROVE, ARKANSAS—The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that archaeologists from the Arkansas Archaeological Survey and the University of Arkansas are conducting a survey of the Prairie Grove Battlefield. On December 7, 1862, Union troops…

With museums and heritage sites still closed, we’ve selected some more of the finest archaeology- and history-themed activities to keep you busy. There are plenty of places to tour from the comfort of your sofa, resources to expand your knowledge…