Archaeologists working to unlock all the secrets of ancient Pompeii recently used a tool that doesn’t spring to mind when you think of excavations – an iPad Pro.
Mixed in with more standard equipment like trowels, buckets and brushes, archaeologists at the site that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted are now harnessing the computational power and versatility of Apple’s iPad Pro.
Researchers who are prone to scribble notes about artifacts or other technical details during digs on paper now
Decapitated skeletons — perhaps criminals or outcasts — have been found in a Roman cemetery uncovered at Fleet Marston, near Aylesbury, during HS2 works.
Archaeologists from COPA have spent a year excavating the roughly 2,000-year-old burial site and adjacent settlement, which lay on Akeman Street, a key Roman road.
The largest of its kind known from Buckinghamshire, the cemetery was found to contain the remains of 425 individuals, around 10 per cent of whom were beheaded.
In several of the
The mysterious skeleton of a headless horse has been found buried alongside its rider in a medieval graveyard in the southern German town of Knittlingen.
According to archaeologists from the Stuttgart Regional Council’s State Office for Monument Preservation and ArchaeoBW, the remains date back some 1,400 years.
At this time, the area was ruled by the Merovingian dynasty, a Frankish family whose reign from 450–751 AD united much of what is now France and central Europe.
The experts are uncertain
A foetus found within the abdomen of an Egyptian mummy last year was preserved for more than 2,000 years because it was ‘pickled’ like an egg by the acidification of the woman’s body as she decomposed.
This is the conclusion of the team of researchers led from the University of Warsaw who revealed the presence of the unborn child’s remains using a combination of CT and X-ray scans back in the April of last year.
The mummy is believed to
Archaeologists have identified the world’s oldest-known drinking straws — and they were a far cry from the paper ones you get to slurp up your McDonald’s milkshake.
Made of gold and silver and often decorated with a bull figurine, each straw ran to three-feet-long and was used to sip beer from communal bowls at banquets.
The eight tubes — which date back more than 5,000 years — were first unearthed from Maikop kurgan, a Bronze Age burial mound in Southern
The expedition to find the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is set to sail next month, it was announced today on the centenary of the polar explorer’s death.
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917, which hoped to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic.
Carrying an expedition crew of 28 men, the 144-foot-long Endurance was a three-masted schooner barque sturdily built for operations in polar waters.
Aiming to land at
Excavations in Rome have uncovered an ancient burial complex that held an intact ceramic funerary urn containing bone fragments and a terracotta dog’s head statue.
Archaeologists were called in after workers laying pipes for utility firm Acea on the Via Luigi Tosti in the city’s Appio Latino quarter came across the buried tombs.
They would have once lined the Via Latina (literally, the ‘Latin Road’) which was one of the earliest-lain Roman roads and that runs south-east out from the
In what is less of a Christmas present and more of a macabre past, the mummified remains of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I have been digitally ‘unwrapped’.
Amenhotep I — the second ruler of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty — is thought to have died around 1506–1504 BCE, at which point he was painstakingly preserved.
Unlike all the other royal mummies unearthed in the 19th and 20th centuries, that of Amenhotep I has never been unwrapped by modern Egyptologists.
This is not
Cosmic rays may be used to scan the sealed tomb of China’s First Emperor — long rumoured to contain deadly traps and an ancient map with liquid mercury rivers.
Buried under a 249-feet-high pyramidal mound, the tomb lies within a necropolis in Xi’an’s Lintong District, and is famously guarded by the Terracotta Army.
Found in their thousands to the tomb’s east, as if to protect Qin Shi Huang in death from the eastern states he conquered in life, each statue
Archaeologists working in a cave in Italy have unearthed a highly decorated, 10,000-year-old burial of an infant girl — the oldest of its kind known from Europe.
The hunter–gatherer child, nicknamed ‘Neve’, was adorned with shell beads and an eagle-owl talon, reported the team led from the University of Colorado, Denver.
Neve was first discovered in the Arma Veirana cave in the Ligurian pre-Alps back in 2017, and then painstakingly excavated the following year.
Few burials are known from the
