News Round Up

Giulia Bartrum: It seems that Edvard Munch has a cult following of almost mythical proportions in Norway. Why do you think this is, and what was your personal introduction to Munch as an artist? Karl Ove: Norway is a very small country, and Munch is…

The William Morris Gallery is returning to the works of outsider artist Madge Gill and Myrninerest, the spirit who possessed her An exponent of mediumistic art and one of the foremost British Outsider artists, Madge Gill (1882 – 1961) endured a…

The Science Museum is about to takes visitors on a 250-year journey through London with Science City 1550-1800, revealing show how the city became a world-renowned hub for trade, exploration and scientific enquiry The gallery will explore how London…

Today is Day Eight and Area Supervisor Therese McCormick continues the story at The Cairns… Cool and calm weather today at The Cairns and work across the whole site continues steadily. Inside the broch, we’ve been working on some of… Continue…

Today it is the turn of Lorna Morrison, University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology student to write the daily blog at The Cairns dig…. Hi Lorna here- the oldest undergrad. student on site. As a UHI student I have… Continue reading →

PEMBROKESHIRE, BRITAIN—BBC News reports that two iron tires that fit onto a wooden chariot’s wheels, an iron sword, and a number of bronze artifacts have been discovered in a Celtic burial in Wales. The site was originally discovered by a metal…

PORT HURON, MICHIGAN—According to an Associated Press report, U.S. border officials seized ancient Egyptian artifacts from a mail truck at the border between Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario. Archaeologists who examined the artifacts…

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a CNN report, researchers led by Kay Prüfer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced the genomes of two Neanderthals who lived in Western Europe about 120,000 years ago. One of the…

BETHEL WOODS, NEW YORK—Gizmodo reports that researchers from Binghamton University’s Public Archaeology Facility, the Museum at Bethel Woods, and the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts have identified the location of 24 vendor booths in the area known…

The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons’. Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence (The Z List Dead List) presents snippets from exclusive Members’ lectures at the Museum,…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Nozomi Kawai of Kanazawa University examined Tutankhamun’s chariot and sunshade, and thinks the two structures may have been fitted together, according to an Ahram Online report. X-rays revealed that the chariot was equipped with…

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a 2,000-year-old model of a human arm carved from wood has been recovered from a Roman well in England’s East Midlands. The waterlogged, oxygen-free conditions in the well preserved the rare sculpture…

OSLO, NORWAY—According to a Science Nordic report, Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo examined the contents of more than 200 Viking graves in southeastern Norway, and found that elite Viking men and women may not have had clearly differentiated…

Day Six and more from the trenches at The Cairns…. We began today’s excavation in a warm and wet humidity and as the day went on it got wetter with the winds from the sea. Today everyone had a chance… Continue reading →

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a Science News report, archaeologist Tomos Proffitt of University College London and primatologist Tiago Falótico of the University of São Paulo have found changes in the patterns of stone tool use over a period of 3,000…

PARIS, FRANCE—Live Science reports that Philippe Charlier of the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques-Chirac and his colleagues examined a medieval jawbone that was buried in Notre Dame Cathedral and said to belong to Louis IX, also known as St. Louis, who…

YAKUTSK, RUSSIA—According to a report in The Siberian Times, paleontologist Innokenty Pavlov and his colleagues discovered a woolly mammoth skeleton in the thawing permafrost on Kotelny Island, which is now located off Russia’s northeastern coast,…

Each day a different volunteer or student archaeologist has the chance to write a dig diary entry to put across their experience of the University of the Highlands and Islands research excavation at The Cairns. It’s Day 5 and so… Continue reading →

It’s Day Four at The Cairns dig and Site Director and Programme Leader for the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute MSc Archaeological Practice course takes up the story…. Hi folks, Martin here. I thought I’d take the……

ALCALÁ DE HENARES, SPAIN—Live Science reports that researchers led by Michael McCormick of Harvard University and Lauro Olmo Enciso of the University of Alcalá have conducted a geomagnetic survey of the site of Reccopolis, a walled town constructed…