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Archaeology

July 2024

  • Skeletons uncovered at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, probably of middle-aged males

    Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study

  • a person with gloved hands holds up Revolutionary War musket balls

    Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston

  • A portrait of Matthew Flinders in his naval uniform

    Matthew Flinders, the flute-playing, cat-loving explorer who circumnavigated Australia, is going home – but what of his envoy Bungaree?

  • The Endurance enclosed in ice in October 1915

    Shackleton’s wrecked Endurance to get extra protection

  • Mike Corfield obituary

  • Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts

  • Archaeological survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshire

  • Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting

June 2024

  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

  • An illustration of several Neanderthal women of different ages in a cave, one with her arms round two children.

    Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion

  • A lorry in the foreground passes the freestanding stone structures of Stonehenge, which is in a field behind it

    Stonehenge likely to be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel plan

  • A view looking down on a sandy-coloured excavation site set in a green field

    ‘Prehistory under our football pitches’: bronze age finds excavated from Cardiff sports field

  • ‘They had no idea it was Caligula’: bronze bust of Roman emperor found after 200 years

  • Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

  • Easter Island study casts doubt on theory of ‘ecocide’ by early population

  • Beach buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius reopens to public after restoration

  • Sir John Boardman obituary

  • Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in urn with Roman remains

  • North Yorkshire landmark has ‘finest view’ – but did it also have a Nazi spy?

  • Maya twins myth may have influenced child sacrifices, study suggests

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