News Round Up

On 6 June, we marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Among the Allied troops involved in that watershed campaign was the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, US Army. They were nicknamed ‘Easy Company’, but – thanks in part to a 2001 TV…

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND—The identity of an early nineteenth-century Connecticut man who appears to have been treated as a vampire after burial has been determined, according to a report from The Washington Post. The man’s coffin was found in 1990 in…

WITZNA, GUATEMALA—Science News reports that a multidisciplinary team led by U.S. Geological Survey geologist David Wahl has found that the ancient Maya were waging "total war" against entire settlements about a century earlier than previously…

MACKINAW CITY, MICHIGAN—According to an Associated Press report, archaeologists at Fort Michilimackinac have unearthed a serpent-shaped sideplate that belonged to an eighteenth-century British trade rifle used by fur traders on the Straits of…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Egypt Independent reports the discovery in North Sinai of a large rectangular building dating to the Roman period at the ancient city of Pelusium. According to Mostafa al-Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,…

The archaeology dig at the Neolithic houses found on the beach at Cata Sand, Sanday, Orkney is now underway. Teams from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and the University of Central Lancashire arrived on the island…

VERGINA, GREECE—According to the Greek Reporter, a sculpture of Alexander the Great has been rediscovered in a warehouse of the Archaeological Museum of Vergina, which is dedicated to the royal tombs of Aigai, the first royal Macedonian capital. As…

KILCREGGAN, SCOTLAND—Graves dating back to the Bronze Age have been found at a site called Portkil on the Rosneath Peninsula, according to a report from The Lochside Press. A team from the North Clyde Archaeological Society has found six graves in…

COLCHESTER, ENGLAND—A Roman public bath has been unearthed during renovations of a fifteenth-century building, the Daily Gazette reports. Archaeologists found tiles for hollow flues, which would have been placed under floors and inside walls to heat…

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—According to a report in the Coventry Observer, archaeologists have been excavating and conducting historic building recordings at Drapers' Hall, an early nineteenth-century building in Coventry's historic center. The structure,…

The British Museum was founded in 1753 and the collection has grown exponentially over time. The way the Museum collects today is incredibly varied – objects sometimes enter the collection directly, in other instances they have passed through…

KARAGANDA, KAZAKHSTAN—Live Science reports that a team of archaeologists excavating a Bronze Age cemetery in the region of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan has unearthed the remains of a man and a woman who were buried facing one another. The variety…

GARCINARRO, SPAIN—El País reports the discovery of the largest Iberian-era building at a hilltop site in eastern Spain known as La Cava, which was settled in the Bronze Age and later occupied by both the Romans and Visigoths. Iberian presence at the…

COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND—The Irish Mirror reports that archaeologists working outside the city of Drogheda have uncovered a medieval site associated with the French Cistercian foundation of De Bello Becco, or Beaubec. The team discovered the…

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—Evidence of a pub or inn dating back to at least the eighteenth century has been uncovered in the Scottish Highlands, according to a report from STV News. The remnants, which were found in the Glencoe settlement of Achtriochtan,…

Britain’s last remaining First World War tank on public display is celebrating 100 years The First World War Mark IV tank used to be a common sight in the cities and towns of Britain in the inter war years and played an active role in the sale of…

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—The bow of the submarine USS Grunion has been discovered off the coast of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, about a quarter of a mile from the wreckage of the rest of the vessel, which was discovered in 2007, according to a CNN report.…

ANGLESEY, WALES—According to a North Wales Live report, examination of the remains of 86 people found in stone-lined graves on an island off the coast of Wales revealed that the burials date from the fourth through the eighth centuries A.D. Irene…

TAMIL NADU, INDIA—The Times of India reports that a four-foot section of a well lined with rings of terracotta bricks was uncovered at southern India’s Keeladi archaeological site, which dates back to the second century B.C. Researchers from the…

SION, SWITZERLAND—Swiss Info reports that pieces of six aligned standing stones were uncovered at a construction site in southwest Switzerland. Archaeologists suggest the discovery could offer new information on social rituals in central Europe at…