This is my kind of archaeology!

An archaeologist working with a brewery is recreating ancient beers from around the world, including Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Denmark, Honduras and China ( Read more... )

I am still here! I had a stressy week of job interviews last week so all my internet things got shoved to one side unfortunately.

Anyway normal service can now resume and I saw a very interesting news story at work today - namely a medieval chess workshop that has been unearthed in Northampton.

A workshop that produced early medieval chess pieces ( Read more... )

Archaeologists went looking for a 17th century town and stumbled across a settlement some 200 years older in Dunluce, Northern Ireland.

On a recent dig, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency planned to uncover part of the lost 17th century town of Dunluce near the castle. But instead, archaeologists stumbled upon an earlier settlement that dates ( Read more... )

I admit my Viking studies were limited to one module at university so I had no idea about this at all.

A researcher at Aberdeen University is hoping to study the Viking incursions into the Spanish peninsula.

No comprehensive archaeological study of Viking sites in Spain has ever been carried out and now a University of Aberdeen researcher plans ( Read more... )

It's that wonderful time of year when we get all the history and archaeology round-ups.

Today's comes from the BBC with 2014 in archaeology - featuring vampires, 15th century canoes, and palaeo-diets :D

New scanning techniques have revealed a medieval city around Old Sarum in Wiltshire without a single trench being dug.

The results include a series of large structures, possibly defences, with open areas of ground behind possibly for mustering resources or people ( Read more... )

Beware of the autoplay video on these pages, it drove me mad until I muted it, but the article is very entertaining and eye opening (especially the American island where until recently they all still spoke a weird hybrid colonial English/American accent).

Might pass on the bog butter though...

5 Things From History You Won't Believe You Can ( Read more... )

I finally found a version of this news story that wasn't from the Daily Mail. Which is a relief because it's a lovely discovery.

“Send me a shirt, towel, trousers, reins, and, for my sister, send fabric,” the father, whose name was Onus, wrote to his son, Danilo, the block letters of Old Novgorod language, a precursor to Russian, neatly carved ( 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... )

Hey! I didn't drop off the face of the earth, I was at a conference and then yesterday I drove home for my week off. Anyway I am back now and I have a update today on the Richard III burial discovered in Leicester last year. It looks like analysis of the remains has revealed more details on his death.

Forensic teams at the University of ( Read more... )