News Round Up

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE—Science Magazine reports that inscriptions written in Cherokee script have been discovered at the head of an underground stream in Alabama’s Manitou Cave. Made up of 85 characters based on the syllables of the Cherokee language…

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—Ground-penetrating radar has revealed traces of a structure within the southern stone circle at Avebury, according to a Live Science report. It had been previously thought that the structure dated to the medieval period, but…

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Reuters reports that researchers led by Nick Thomson and Matthew Dorman of the Wellcome Sanger Institute have mapped the genome of a sample of cholera bacteria collected from a sick British soldier sent to Egypt to convalesce in…

After spending time working on the ADS library I thought it would be fun to share with you a few gems of the library content. Subsequently I fell down numerous rabbit holes. It was quite hard picking articles as there is so much there but in the end…

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA—According to a Science Magazine report, anthropologist Emily Hammer of the University of Pennsylvania and her colleague Jason Ur of Harvard University have created an index of several thousand high-resolution photographs…

MYKONOS, GREECE—Foundations of a pier and the islet on which the St. Nicholas chapel was first built in the fourth century A.D. were uncovered during excavations at the port of Mykonos, according to Greek Reporter. Traces of the bridge that once…

The National Maritime Museum is planning a massive moon exhibition this summer… The moon has long inspired artists and scientists alike – acting as a metaphor for the human condition in moonlit scenes by J.M.W. Turner and John Constable and…

Search the internet for Marguerite Wood (1888-1954) and Margaret Simpson (1906-1994) and you will not find much – an unusual occurrence these days, when everything seems to be recorded on the web. Their names are little known today, despite the…

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—Cosmos Magazine reports that Hannah James of Australian National University and her colleagues dated teeth from the remains of seven adults and one child recovered from a prehistoric burial mound discovered in southwestern France…

LOP BURI, THAILAND—According to a Bangkok Post report, more than 10,000 artifacts dating back as far as the Iron Age have been uncovered at a newly discovered site called Khok Phutsa, which is located in central Thailand’s Lop Buri River Basin, by a…

PREY VENG PROVINCE, CAMBODIA—The Phnom Penh Post reports that six graves dating to the period of the Funan Empire, between the first and fifth centuries A.D., have been unearthed by archaeologists in southern Cambodia during a road construction…

MINSK, BELARUS—The Belarusian Telegraph Agency reports that construction workers uncovered a well-preserved helmet dating to between the late ninth and early eleventh centuries near the river port in the city of Bobruisk. Igor Marzalyuk of the…

CAIRO, EGYPT—Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Police discovered a Ptolemaic-era tomb while investigating illegal excavations near the Al-Dayabat archaeological mound in Upper Egypt’s Sohag Governorate, according to an Ahram Online report. The tomb,…

NEWTON ABBOT, ENGLAND—According to a Devon Live report, workmen discovered traces of a medieval building, including whitewashed and plastered stone walls, as well as what may be a bay window or the threshold for a door, while renovating a church…

Following on from last month’s issue, I explore here some more of my favourite covers from issues 201-300 of Current Archaeology, covering the period 2010-2013. The post Excavating the CA archive: cover photos from issues 201-300, part II appeared…

The Thames Discovery Programme – whose volunteers record the archaeology of the Thames foreshore – has recently celebrated its tenth birthday. Eliott Wragg, Nathalie Cohen, and Josh Frost explore some of the initiative’s most important findings from…

The largest concentration of apotropaic graffiti, or ‘witch marks’, in the UK has been identified in the caves at Creswell Crags, a limestone gorge on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The post Ritual protection marks identified at…

Two Neolithic halls have been identified within a previously unsuspected prehistoric landscape, thanks to new dating analysis following extensive excavations in Carnoustie, Angus. The post Conclusive chronologies at Carnoustie appeared first on…

Rare examples of graffiti, made by the Roman army while they were repairing and rebuilding Hadrian’s Wall, have been recorded in a Cumbrian quarry associated with the monument’s construction. Dating to the early 3rd century AD, these inscriptions…

The oldest human cranium fragment ever mudlarked from the Thames (found on its foreshore) has been identified as Neolithic. The cranium was discovered by Martin Bushell while he was walking along the south bank of the river, just one week after…