News Round Up

ZHENGZHOU, CHINA—Xinhua reports that 160 tombs dating to the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.–A.D. 220) were discovered in Zhengzhou, a city in central China’s Henan Province. Not many artifacts dating to the Han Dynasty have been found during previous…

WHITEHORSE, CANADA—CBC News reports that low water levels in the Yukon River in northwest Canada have revealed a collection of historic artifacts, including nails, wooden logs and planks, and iron fixtures from sternwheel paddleboats. Yukon…

TOKYO, JAPAN—Analysis of the genome of a woman who was buried on Japan’s northern island of Rebunto during the Jomon Period, some 3,800 years ago, revealed similarities to the genomes of people who live in the Arctic, according to a report in The…

KEELUNG CITY, TAIWAN—Focus Taiwan reports that a blue and white porcelain medicine bottle dating to the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) was among the artifacts discovered on Heping Island, which is located off the northern coast of Taiwan, by a team of…

CAIRO, EGYPT—According to a Xinhua report, traces of a military castle dating to between 664 and 610 B.C. have been uncovered in Egypt’s North Sinai province. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the mud-…

PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON—Evidence for as many as five tsunamis has been detected at an ancient Klallam village site on the north coast of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula, according to a Jefferson Public Radio report. Klallam oral history tells…

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—According to an Associated Press report, disfigured human remains uncovered at the Zultepec-Teoaque site have been analyzed by archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. A convoy of about 75…

TARTU, ESTONIA—Gizmodo reports that a new study of genetics, archaeology, and linguistics led by Lehti Saag of the University of Tartu suggests Uralic languages such as Estonian and Finnish can be linked to ancient, migrating Siberian populations.…

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a Science News report, archaeologists Philip Riris and Manuel Arroyo-Kalin of University College London examined ancient sediments and other sources of climate data, and analyzed more than 5,000 radiocarbon dates from…

KLESSIN, GERMANY—DW.com reports that a mass grave was unearthed on private land in eastern Germany, near the Polish border, during a construction project. Werner Schulz of the Association for the Recovery of the Fallen in Eastern Europe (VBGO) said…

ROME, ITALY—ANSA reports that a rectangular room decorated with paintings of panthers, centaurs, and a sphinx has been discovered at the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, the emperor Nero’s 150-room palace on Rome’s Palatine Hill. Alessandro D’Alessio,…

Walk into a bookshop in Tokyo today and the shelves are packed to bursting with manga books by Tezuka Osamu, Hagio Moto, Inoue Takehiko, Yamazaki Mari, et al. They’re published by Kōdansha, Shūeisha, Shōgakukan, Hakusensha, and many other firms.…

The MLitt Archaeological Studies course at the University of the Highlands and Islands can be undertaken from anywhere in the world – as long as you have internet access and a computer. The course offers you the opportunity to study… Continue…

It’s almost the weekend so obviously this was the right time have fun with some of the beautiful images to be found in the HMJ Underhill archive, compiled by Oxford University and available in our archives. Also I felt like brushing up on the old…

LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Sleaford Standard reports that a cache of early fourth-century A.D. Roman coins was discovered in eastern England by metal detectorists Rob Jones and Craig Paul. Paul assisted archaeologists Adam Daubney of the Lincolnshire…

PRITTLEWELL, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, the occupant of an intact burial chamber discovered in a burial mound in southeastern England in 2003 may have been an early Christian Anglo-Saxon prince. Tooth enamel fragments were the only…

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—Roderick Campbell of New York University and Zhipeng Li of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reviewed the burials of sacrificed dogs from multiple Shang Dynasty sites, according to a Live Science report, and found that nearly…

Ellie Broad, Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Southend Museums, on the Prittlewell Anglo-Saxon princely burial going on permanent display at Southend Central Museum from May 11 – for the first time since their discovery 15 years ago The…

Ellie Broad, Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Southend Museums, on the Prittlewell Anglo-Saxon princely burial going on permanent display at Southend Central Museum from May 11 – for the first time since their discovery 15 years ago The…

Ellie Broad, Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Southend Museums, on the Prittlewell Anglo-Saxon princely burial going on permanent display at Southend Central Museum from May 11 – for the first time since their discovery 15 years ago The…