Some home news! Archaeologists have discovered a Dark Age cemetery and a Roman villa in Somerset.

Working for EDF Energy, Cotswold Archaeology say Hinkley Point, near the village of Cannington, was continuously occupied during the Iron Age and Roman periods and beyond, with three circular agricultural buildings and a set of more than 100 burials ( Read more... )

The crossrail engineering project in London is proving to be a goldmine for archaeologists and over the next few weeks excavations will hopefully turn up more information on the Bedlam burial site, a site used between the 16th and the 18th century containing some 3000 skeletons and a Roman road.

Experts hope tests on remains from the site, also ( Read more... )

Thanks to thismaz for tonight's entry!

Women are thought to have had no official role in Roman army activities. But now a monument that's been sitting in the centre of Rome for almost 2000 years is adding to the evidence that soldiers ignored a ban on marriage, and that the wives or daughters of commanders might have taken part in triumphal ceremonies ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed this blog post - The Discovery of a Roman Girl in the 15th Century

Some of our greatest archaeological finds have happened by accident, revealing wonders from the past. Such a thing could also happen in the Middle Ages, such as when the perfectly preserved body of a girl was discovered along the Via Appia just outside of Rome. The ( Read more... )

Thanks to a8c_sock for this one!

Roman gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank ashes after training as a tonic. These are the findings of anthropological investigations carried out on bones of warriors found during excavations in the ancient city of Ephesos ( Read more... )

A lucky amateur archaeologist has found something rather wonderful in Tyneside.

THE face of an ancient goddess has been unearthed from the depths of a Roman site in South Tyneside after being buried for 1,800 years ( Read more... )

archaeologist_d mentioned this a while ago and I bookmarked it and then forgot all about it! So sorry about that, it's definitely a good one - the only known Roman wooden toilet seat and from Hadrian's Wall no less :D

In the deep trenches at Vindolanda, which was once a Roman military fort just south of Hadrian's Wall, the team found the seat discarded among ( Read more... )

I love when they do this stuff with CGI!

The Roman fort at Segontium near present day Caernarfon has been restored using computer technology.

A film showing show how Caernarfon's Segontium Roman fort looked around 70 AD has been created by historic monuments body Cadw ( Read more... )

Exciting news from Turkey where the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality has unearthed the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre (although I have to wonder what the hell happened to the people in the shanty town).

The stage walls and entrance of a Roman-era theatre in İzmir’s Kadifekale neighborhood, once covered by expropriated shanty houses, have been ( Read more... )

We've had historical cat paw prints, now some dog prints!


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