News Round Up

ISTANBUL, TURKEY—According to a Live Science report, researchers led by Ken Dark of the University of Reading and Jan Kostenec of the Czech National Committee of Byzantine Studies have found traces of Byzantine-era structures on the grounds of…

PROSPECT BLUFF, FLORIDA—According to a Talahassee.com report, Hurricane Michael toppled some 100 large trees in Apalachicola National Forest last October and revealed traces of the “Negro Fort,” which was built by British soldiers during the War of…

SANDOMIERZ, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that the bones of a bear’s paw were discovered near the 4,500-year-old dismembered remains of a man and a small child in southeastern Poland. The paw had been placed at the entranceway to the niche where…

GANSU, CHINA—China Daily reports that six groups of rock art etchings estimated to be 3,500 years old were discovered at high altitude on northwest China’s Qilian Mountain. Most of the images depict deer, cattle, and hunting scenes. One of the deer…

The ADS Library now holds over 50,000 downloadable grey literature reports!Thank you to all the archivists who have worked hard preserving, archiving and disseminating these files and to all of our depositors who continue to make our Grey Literature…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—According to a Popular Science report, the production of chicha, a light, sour beer-like beverage usually made from corn, helped to spread the influence of the Wari Empire throughout what is now Peru between A.D. 450 and 1000.…

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Gulf News reports that a metal workshop dating to the second century B.C. was discovered in Pakistan by archaeologists led by Gul Rahim of the University of Peshawar. Furnaces, grinding stones, crucibles, molds, trowels, knives,…

Museum Crush talks to archaeology curator Kate Sumnall ahead of an exhibition of art and archaeology revealing the fascinating story of London’s rivers at Museum of London Docklands The Rivers Effra, Fleet, Neckinger, Tyburn, Walbrook and Westbourne…

Museum Crush talks to archaeology curator Kate Sumnall ahead of an exhibition of art and archaeology revealing the fascinating story of London’s rivers at Museum of London Docklands The Rivers Effra, Fleet, Neckinger, Tyburn, Walbrook and Westbourne…

A 300-year-old bedspread, a gift from King James II to a loyal family, goes on display at Sizergh in Cumbria, England When King James II of England went to bed in the 17th century, he probably snuggled up in the most sumptuous and lavish quilts,…

The Fitzwilliam is exploring the world of the Beggarstaffs, an artist duo from the late Victorian world of posters who then forged their own glittering careers as modern British artists of the early twentieth century Many people may know William…

Ahead of the first major exhibition of the work of artist Eliot Hodgkin in nearly 30 years, Waddesdon Manor and members of Hodgkin’s family are trying to trace ‘lost’ works by the British painter Before his death in 1987, Eliot Hodgkin (born 1905)…

Fran Parry, volunteer at the Cowper and Newton Museum at Olney Market Place, on a shocking Georgian contraption used by the poet and writer of hymns, William Cowper This piece of equipment looks oddly out of place in Orchard Side, which is the…

The team from ORCA Archaeology & the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute are holding a Historical Urban Archive Research Day at the Orkney Library Archive on Saturday 4th May 2019, 10am – 3pm. Booking is essential as……

TENERIFE, SPAIN—Cosmos reports that Lucia Leierer of the University of La Laguna and her colleagues analyzed 11 hearths at El Salt, a Middle Paleolithic site located on Spain’s southeastern coast, and concluded that the Neanderthals who camped there…

TENERIFE, SPAIN—Cosmos reports that Lucia Leierer of the University of La Laguna and her colleagues analyzed 11 hearths at El Salt, a Middle Paleolithic site located on Spain’s southeastern coast, and concluded that the Neanderthals who camped there…

UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA—Science News reports that evidence of human occupation of southwestern Amazonia some 10,600 years ago, or several thousand years earlier than previously thought, has been unearthed in Bolivia. Archaeologist José…

ATHENS, GREECE—A number of stairways, drainage systems, and multi-level buildings have been unearthed at a Bronze Age settlement discovered on the Greek islands of Keros and Dascalio, according to The National Herald. The two islands were connected…

ATHENS, GREECE—A system of tubes used to keep seawater out of a multi-level Bronze Age settlement was discovered on the Greek islands of Keros and Dascalio, according to The Greek Reporter. The two islands were connected in antiquity. The recent…

ANGKOR, CAMBODIA—Low water levels in West Baray Lake allowed archaeologists from Cambodia’s Department of Conservation of Monuments to uncover sections of the foundation of the eighth-century Ak Yum temple, according to a report from Khmer Times.…