6/29/2009 Neanderthal...it's what's for dinner!??
6/26/2009 If this discovery of Upper Paleolithic flutes pans out, it will cast new light on the debate over human cognitive development; more
6/25/2009 X-raying a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
6/19/2009 The new Acropolis museum opens
6/18/2009 A discovery at our own local site of Angel Mounds--the investigators believe that this was one of the earliest Mississippian structures on the site, comparable in date to Mound A
6/16/2009 A possibly intact Aztec tomb
6/16/2009 Neolithic graves in England
6/11/2009 A mass of Celtic skeletons
6/5/2009 Paleolithic barbeque
6/5/2009 Mayan plant motifs
6/4/2009 A witch-bottle
6/2/2009 Arguments over the earliest pottery continue
5/29/2009 A short article on undeciphered scripts
5/28/2009 Controversy over Norse presence on Baffin Island
5/27/2009 Origins of leprosy
5/22/2009 New and interesting dating technique applicable to ceramics
5/13/2009 A new and very early "Venus" figurine from Germany
5/3/2009 3-D catacombs in Rome
5/1/2009 Study on African DNA has some interesting hints for archaeologists
4/30/2009 Not archaeology, but these Kenyan women are taking a page out of Aristophanes' Lysistrata
4/29/2009 A newly-found Roman millefiori bowl
4/29/2009 More unsurprising news about the ancestry of Native Americans
4/18/2009 Neanderthal "races"? Population subgroup may be more accurate
4/16/2009 Organic residue analysis applied to some Old Kingdom wine jars in Egypt
4/15/2009 Remnants of a huge ditch and wood circle complex in Ireland
4/14/2009 Not archaeology, but I have noticed this correlation myself
4/2/2009 Irish-Scot DNA studies
4/1/2009 Monster lions roamed Paleo Europe and America
3/30/2009 Interesting article on a kind of Southern grave
3/25/2009 Coming soon to a cosmetic counter near you
3/25/2009 Lost Irishmen
3/24/2009 Neat discovery in a medieval church
3/24/2009 Original Greek bronze sculpture recovered from sea
3/22/2009 Horse domestication
3/18/2009 More on Gobekli Tepe--astonishing if true, but many of these stelai are very similar in shape & even the style of the animals to later Bronze Age ones in Anatolia.
3/15/2009 An old stone fish-trap in Wales
3/12/2009 Earlier date for Chinese homo erectus
3/12/2009 Caravaggio, a hi-tech artist
3/8/2009 Not sure what to make of this about Venetian vampires
3/6/2008 Horse domestication may have occurred as early as 3500 BC; more at BBC
3/4/2009 Otzi the Iceman, up close and more personal than some may care to go....
3/4/2009 All kinds of goodies turning up in London Olympics excavation
3/2/2009 Ancient hunting in Israel
2/27/2009 The bold stride of H. erectus
2/26/2009 Paleo tool cache in Colorado
2/20/2009 Queen Elizabeth's high-tech navy
2/12/2009 Even more mummies
2/12/2009 No Neanderthal ancestors, folks
2/9/2009 Peering inside a mummy case
2/4/2009 Organic residue analysis shows chocolate use in Chaco Canyon
1/29/2009 Sicilian mummies
1/29/2009 Everyone gets grossed out by all of the worms found in coprolites, but ...are they our friends?
1/18/2008 Gee, if Uther Pendragon says so, who are we to challenge him?
1/15/2009 Poison gas in ancient warfare
1/11/2009 Interesting discovery of Neolithic grave in Istanbul
1/11/2009 Comet crashes and famine?
1/10/2009 A 6th Dynasty queen's mummy
1/7/2009 Very well preserved burials from China
12/31/2009 An Argentine shipwreck
12/23/2008 Old Kingdom tombs discovered in Egypt
12/19/2008 Notice of an interesting show on ancient Greek women at the Met; the review itself is tiresome and trite, making the freshman mistake of equating "goddess" and "woman"--more evidence of the accelerating decline of the New York Times
12/18/2008 A new Meroitic inscription
12/18/2008 Newly discovered Wari city in Peru
12/12/2008 A 2000 year-old brain
12/3/2008 The Chachapoyas of Peru
12/2/2008 Upper Paleolithic finds from Russia
12/1/2008 Not archaeology, but are these photographs spectacular or what?
11/27/2008 Another Neolithic village in Thessaly
11/20/2008 Copernicus' remains identified
11/19/2008 A very nice find of a torque
11/19/2008 An alleged pre-Neolithic "temple"
11/19/2008 A family grave in Germany
11/19/2008 A new stele from Zincirli
11/19/2008 An article on the Tarim mummies
11/12/2008 Google Earth does ancient Rome
11/11/2008 Geez, how often do they find a new pyramid?
11/8/2008 Mystery of the screaming mummy
11/7/2008 Strength of monsoons shows long-term connection with solar activity. Fascinating. Just last spring, there were hysterical denials that solar activity had anything to do with climate change. Fortunately, these researchers, with an eye to their jobs, assure us that anthropogenic factors have displaced the sun as the main factor.
11/4/2008 A member of the media elite reviews a new production of the Oedipus cyle--unfortunately, this particular member thinks that Sophocles' plays were performed in an "amphitheater."
10/30/2008 Otzi the Iceman's folks apparently don't live on, though
10/30/2008 Phoenicia lives on! More
10/30/2008 The oldest Hebrew writing?
10/29/2008 The oldest temple in the world?
10/23/2008 The antiquities market
10/18/2008 Cleaning the Parthenon
10/17/2008 Macrinus' tomb found in Rome
10/15/2008 More peaceful primates bite the dust, or rather, some neighboring monkeys
10/10/2008 Interesting idea about Neolithic preference for green beads
10/9/2008 Not archaeology, but related: the Latin surge
10/7/2008 Exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls
10/6/2008 Sarcophagus of the son of a High Priest in Israel found
9/28/2008 The curse of Oetzi the Iceman?
9/26/2008 Shipwreck off the Namibian coast
9/24/2008 Neanderthals had a varied diet
9/22/2008 Redating the bluestone circle at Stonehenge
9/18/2008 Why is it that all of the reconstructions of "cave men" show them being dirty?
9/18/2008 Red faces in Britain
9/16/2008 Strange reason for exhumation
9/1/2008 Chariots in Iron Age Scotland
8/31/2008 The discovery of a 2-mile long palisade near Stonehenge is a big find
8/29/2008 Extensive ancient settlements and road systems in the Amazon--I don't understand. I thought there were only hunter-gathers living in peaceful harmony with nature since time immemorial! SNORT!
8/28/2008 Dead Sea scrolls on display
8/28/2008 Peruvian mummies
8/28/2008 Not archaeology, but interesting points about the difficulty of painting true frescoes
8/27/2008 Thames shipwrecks
8/26/2008 A new monumental sculpture of Marcus Aurelius from Sagalassos
8/25/2008 More Alpine finds
8/21/2008 The Iceman was an animal herder
8/21/2008 Evidently, this guy and his ancestors don't get out much
8/17/2008 A new sculpture of Faustina the Elder
8/15/2008 Roman sarcophagi in Newcastle
8/14/2008 Sahara excavations
8/13/2008 Roman temple found under church in Israel
6/6/2008 New old pyramid
6/3/2008 The "Talheim massacre" has been known for some time
6/2/2008 Interesting story on Greek cave archaeology
5/29/2008 New ideas about Stonehenge; more
5/23/2008 Two crystal skulls bite the dust--probably the rest are fake, too
5/14/2008 Claimed portrait sculpture of Julius Caesar from France said to date to 46 BC--I don't think that this is Caesar.
5/2/2008 Portuguese (?) shipwreck off the Namibian coast
4/29/2008 Yeah, but I bet even they didn't eat Brussels Sprouts
4/27/2008 Incan trepanation
4/25/2008 Acoustics of Epidauros (which is a theater, not an amphitheater, despite the headline)
4/25/2008 H. sap.2's precarious past; more
4/23/2008 Saxon genes in the Britain
4/22/2008 Tempera paint on the terracotta army
4/11/2008 Burial cave in Yorkshire
4/11/2008 Another site bites the dust...or rather, drinks the water
4/10/2008 Inscribed Roman altar from Manchester
4/10/2008 A mini Stonehenge
4/8/2008 A little blurb on Cahokia
4/8/2008 New perspectives on the Anasazi
4/8/2008 Unfortunately, stripping roofs for their metal has a long history
4/7/2008 Early Australians
4/4/2008 Vikings with Arab coins
4/4/2008 The British Columbia Iceman is not as old as Otzi, but is still interesting
4/4/2008 Keep track of current Stonehenge excavations
4/3/2008 Restoration of Donatello's David
4/3/2008 Coprolite controversy; more
4/3/2008 I do not even want to think about the "late tax" penalties the Aztec IRS would have imposed
4/1/2008 Well, it is April 1
4/1/2008 Determining the source of the tsunami that struck Alexandria in 365 AD
4/1/2008 Earliest known gold necklace from the New World; more
4/1/2008 Ancient mechanics
3/31/2008 This story about the destruction of "Sodom and Gomorrah" has to be a candidate for dumb post of the year
3/31/2008 New excavations at Stonehenge
3/29/2008 Discovery of an early hominim in Spain
3/20/2008 The Lost Tomb of Jesus debunked once again
3/20/2008 Early bipedalism
3/19/2008 Global cooling in 6th cent AD the result of volcanic eruption?
3/19/2008 Illegal sale of antiquities fueling terrorism
3/19/2008 The hobbits won't go away
3/17/2008 A new Bell Beaker burial in England
3/14/2008 Yet another pre-Inca religious building
3/13/2008 Native American mtDNA haplogroups
3/12/2008 Ancient brain surgery?
3/11/2008 Diminutive human skeletons found on Palau
3/8/2008 A variety of discoveries in Rome
3/6/2008 Yet more speculation about the "hobbits"
2/29/2008 Maya blue
2/28/2008 Strange find in a convent
2/28/2008 Another claimed early hominid I suspect that this will turn out not to be a real hominid
2/27/2008 Signs of early urbanism in Peru
2/25/2008 Archaeology & Antarctica
2/20/2008 Genetic studies of human dispersal--no big surprises here
2/19/2008 The Sassanian "Great Wall of Persia"
2/17/2008 Foxp2 is not the holy grail of human language
2/13/2008 Looting the Ban Chiang Culture
2/10/2008 High tech conservation for the Mary Rose
2/7/2008 Flash: Columbus did NOT introduce lice to the New World
2/5/2008 Mt. Lykaion said to have evidence for pre-Greek sacrifices I am a little skeptical of this, but who knows?
1/31/2008 Dendrochronology and the founding of Berlin
1/31/2008 New perspectives on the Adena Culture in Ohio
1/30/2008 Research on Black Death victims in England
1/27/2008 Mica was used to make some Mayan buildings gleam
1/26/2008 Bad news about nutrition and workloads at Amarna
1/25/2008 Osteological evidence for early shoes
1/23/2008 New human fossil discovery in China
1/19/2008 The Hot Pot returns home
1/18/2008 Interesting piece on medieval melees--not really archaeology, but what the hey
1/17/2008 The sunken city of Dunwich
1/16/2008 A very old sword from China
12/31/2007 Burials in Alaska
12/28/2007 I keep thinking that things can't get any more stupid, but here you go.
12/24/2007 House of Augustus in Rome to open next year to public
12/22/2007 Shipwreck from the Song Dynasty being raised
12/22/2007 "Pompeian Red" show in Rome
12/21/2007 Still more evidence of ancient people killing each other without a wicked Indo-European in sight
12/19/2007 New finds at Karnak in Egypt
12/14/2007 Roman trade with India--I don't see any evidence here showing that Roman ships were necessarily sailing around southern Africa
12/14/2007 Captain Kidd's ship discovered?
12/13/2007 New discoveries at Caistor in England
12/12/2007 Not sure that this article about the Spartans really shows what it claims. Unwanted infants were supposedly exposed, not thrown into the pit with criminals.
12/11/2007 Evolution in modern human populations
12/7/2007 Ridiculous!
12/6/2007 Viking halls found in Norway
12/5/2007 Very cool discovery of a wooden chair at Herculaneum
12/1/2007 A new translation of the Gnostic Gospel of Judas suggests the initial translation was mistaken
11/30/2007 Ancient biological warfare?
11/30/2007 Re-dating of a wall in Jerusalem
11/28/2007 Genetic evidence about human migration to the New World
11/21/2007 An update on the possible discovery of the Lupercal in Rome; another expert is doubtful
11/21/2007 New Anglo-Saxon royal burial site
11/16/2007 A beautifully preserved Roman street found in Jerusalem
11/15/2007 This article is a good example of archaeologists trying to get on the ecomania bandwagon. Note that the forest clearance and the disappearance of the Argaric culture was separated by 300 years. That is a long time, people. Drawing a direct connection between the two is not sound reasoning.
11/13/2007 Chocolate use in 1000 BC
11/6/2007 Dendrochronology
11/5/2007 Interesting discoveries at Stonehenge
11/4/2007 King Tut on display; more
10/31/2007 The "Red Lady" gets older
10/30/2007 Large Roman villa discovered in western Austria
10/29/2007 Roman tombstone found in Scotland The unfortunate Pict being ridden down by the Roman is probably a relative of UE's own Dr. MacLeod
10/28/2007 Positive review of the new Parthenon Museum
10/26/2007 Redhead Neanderthals
10/22/2007 Rare Saxon burial site discovered in England
10/19/2007 Czechs discover female terracotta from ca. 5000 BC
10/18/2007 Evidence for shellfish consumption among early H. sap
10/16/2007 Old Slavonic texts on birchbark
10/15/2007 Acropolis sculptures moved to new Athenian museum
10/12/2007 Colonial Spanish shipwreck
10/11/2007 World's oldest wall painting said to be found in Syria Keep in mind, though, that considerably older paintings on cave walls have been discovered
10/5/2007 It would indeed be a pity if Cyrus' tomb is damaged
10/4/2007 Digitizing old books in the British Library
10/4/2007 Possible Neolithic copper-working site found in Serbia (will need to see whether the initial dating holds up)
10/4/2007 This technique for scanning weathered gravestones will be applicable to Greek & Roman epigraphy too.
9/30/2007 The replicas of the Danish Guldenhornene stolen & recovered
9/30/2007 Wider range for Neanderthals than previously thought
9/28/2007 Let's clone one of these
9/26/2007 Late Pleistocene extinctions caused by exploding comet?
9/20/2007 More on the "hobbit" argument; more at the BBC
9/20/2007 Pre-Inca mummies from Peru
9/20/2007 Early homo sp. outside of Africa more variable than thought; more here
9/19/2007 This article about the Thames Tunnel is worth a read
9/18/2007 Lengthy article in NYT on early hominids
9/14/2007 Lots o' arguments over connection of climate changes and Neanderthal extinction
9/13/2007 A mighty cool way to read fragile ancient manuscripts
9/10/2007 Newly-discovered Swiss lake building constructed in 3863 BC or a few years later
9/10/2007 Another possible Viking ship identified by GPR
9/10/2007 Exhuming the bodies found in the Viking Oseberg ship burial
9/10/2007 Bog mummies
9/10/2007 Ancient tunnel discovered under Jerusalem
9/7/2007 Inca mummy goes on display
9/5/2007 Possible Clovis site in Oregon
9/4/2007 Busy bees in ancient Israel
9/3/2007 New technique for cleaning artifacts and artworks
8/31/2007 Mass burial at Tell Brak dates to 3800 BC
8/30/2007 Part of Herod's 2nd Temple discovered in Jerusalem? Criticism of the excavation.
8/21/2007 Newly discovered enclosure in Cork, Ireland
8/15/2007 Intact Etruscan tomb found
8/14/2007 Beer brewing in Ireland (all in the name of science, of course)
8/14/2007 New satellite studies of Angkor Wat
8/10/2007 Monumental Hadrian statue discovered in Turkey
8/9/2007 Mesolithic settlement discovered under the sea off the Isle of Wight
6/7/2007 A forensic report of sorts on Oetzi the Iceman
6/4/2007 Interesting finds about Late Roman London
6/1/2007 New ideas about the origins of bipedalism in hominids
5/22/2007 A new theory concerning the Younger Dryas period in North America
5/19/2007 Really ancient Chinese writing?
5/16/2007 Irish bog bodies (from 2006)
5/16/2007 New prehistoric site near Tara, Ireland
5/14/2007 Preservation efforts in Erbil
5/12/2007 Restoration work at Silbury in England
5/11/2007 Genetic evidence about population dispersal in Australia and New Guinea
5/11/2007 Bronze cremation urn from Argos in Greece
5/8/2007 Nice NYT article on Inca fiber suspension bridges
5/8/2007 Possible discovery of Herod's tomb
5/3/2007 Washington's Philadelphia house excavated
5/3/2007 Early hominid diet
5/3/2007 A gladiator graveyard in Ephesus?
4/26/2007 The Archimedes Palimpsest yields yet another text fragment; a longer piece from the LA Times
4/23/2007 Undersea topography
4/22/2007 Intact Thracian chariot excavated
4/20/2007 I never thought that I would see "nuclear-powered submarine" and "archaeological research" together, but here you go.
4/20/2007 Remodeled Classical gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art But did they get rid of the old typewritten labels that have been in there for donkeys' years?
4/19/2007 Pre-Incan metallurgy
4/14/2007 Radioisotopes and evidence for ancient migrations
4/13/2007 Early obsidian tools from Japan
4/12/2007 Interesting discovery about human sacrifices at Teotihuacan
4/5/2007 A Roman-era tomb on Kephallonia
4/4/2007 Some DNA evidence supports the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans; former UE prof Tony Tuck is quoted
4/3/2007 Homo sapiens sapiens in China
4/3/2007 Very old news about the Exodus in the NYT--part of the editors' continuing war against Judaism & Christianity?
3/29/2007 More peaceful prehistoric folk, this time from Peru
3/23/2007 Robert the clockmaker's seal from York
3/23/2007 Norman-era house found in Shrewsbury
3/19/2007 Strange burials on Vanuatu
3/14/2007 Pigs as index of human migration
3/12/2007 More peaceful prehistoric folk in England
3/10/2007 A Roman village at Silbury Hill
3/8/2007 The Trireme Trust's website has some interesting links
3/7/2007 An agora in a deme close to Athens
3/6/2007 Geneticists look at the modern populations of Britain and Ireland
3/2/2007 A new Hera statue from Dion in Greece
3/1/2007 Solar observations in prehistoric Peru
3/1/2007 A report in a Greek newspaper dating the Thera eruption to 1614 BC (in Greek) This is not really "news," but a follow-up to research that has appeared over the last few years.
2/27/2007 I guess the "milk strategy" of stock-raising was not possible in the Early Neolithic
2/24/2007 Ancient native American textiles
2/21/2007 More from Saqqara in Egypt
2/21/2007 More on the end of the Neanderthals
2/19/2007 Wooden statue from Egyptian Old Kingdom
2/17/2007 A sad story--not the kind of "mummy" that anyone wants to find
2/16/2006 Theater discovered in Acharnae, a suburb of Athens This was mentioned by some ancient sources, so the discovery is not too big of a surprise
2/16/2007 Chili peppers in ancient Ecuador
2/15/2007 Discoveries in Roman Nîmes
2/14/2007 Amarna-era tomb discovered in Egypt
2/14/2007 Old news, but Cleopatra was no hottie
2/14/2007 Here is the sort of issue that art conservators deal with
2/13/2007 DNA evidence points to eastern Siberia as possible origin for Native Americans
2/13/2007 An interesting argument about Etruscan origins
2/11/2007 New Middle Kingdom burials from Egypt
2/8/2007 Historic preservation encounters difficulties in China
2/7/2007 The "Lovers of Valdaro"
2/6/2007 A possible early Canaanite text from the 3rd millennium BC
1/31/2007 Weapons and standards of Maxentius, the emperor defeated by Constantine, found in Rome; here's one with a picture
1/30/2007 A contemporary settlement discovered near Stonehenge--this will be really interesting when fully published. More from the NYT
1/26/2007 The Lupercal found in Rome?--this would be a big find for Roman topography, if true. The Lupercal was the cave where the Romans believed the wolf suckled Romulus & Remus
1/24/2007 8th century AD shipwreck discovered off coast of Israel
1/22/2007 Rescue excavation in Cologne
1/16/2007 Excavations at Tell Hamoukar in Syria recover evidence of a 5000+ year old battle
1/15/2007 Discoveries from Roman-era Jerusalem
1/14/2007 Early Paleo-Indians in Minnesota
1/11/2007 Finds in Russia show presence of modern h. sap. by ca. 45,000 BC
1/10/2007 Chacapoya mummies
1/9/2007 Restoring an Old Kingdom mudbrick enclosure in Egypt
1/2/2007 Irish psalter recovered from bog
1/1/2007 Smashed Cycladic figurine cache from Keros
12/8/2006 St. Paul's sarcophagus excavated in Rome
12/7/2006 Display of Bactrian gold jewelry (now you know what Alexander the Great was doing there)
12/5/2006 A grim assessment of Neanderthal life in Spain
12/4/2006 An early church from Israel
12/3/2006 It seems doubtful that ousting these villagers in Egypt is wise without adequate compensation
12/1/2006 A Mediterranean tsunami from ca. 6000 BC
11/30/2006 An explanation of the Antikythera Mechanism; another story at the BBC
11/27/2006 New texts of Hyperides recovered from the Archimedes Palimpsest
11/25/2006 Pre-Incan tombs
11/17/2006 More neanderthal DNA
11/17/2006 Manuscript preservation in India
11/14/2006 A Roman shipwreck
10/31/2006 Another claim for h. sap. & h. neander. hybrids
10/25/2006 Not archaeology, but still a cool discovery: Amazon once flowed into the Pacific
10/23/2006 New Old Kingdom tombs from Saqqara in Egypt
10/13/2006 A cultic site in Turkey supposedly dating to 9000 BC
10/13/2006 Evidence for Neolithic production of cheese/yogurt
10/11/2006 A Roman cemetery in the Vatican opens to the public
10/8/2006 Ancient camel-kill shows presence of camel species in Syria
10/6/2006 The coastal migration theory
10/5/2006 Canterbury Cathedral decaying badly
10/4/2006 Roman hair dye tried out in the lab
10/1/2006 Cremation burials from Vietnam
10/1/2006 Tracing the prehistoric colonization of Britain
9/30/2006 Remains of the dirigible Macon investigated off the California coast Prof. T's uncle, Richard K. Smith, wrote the definitive account of the airships Akron and Macon. [The airships Akron & Macon: Flying aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. Naval Institute Press, 1965; several repr. editions]
9/28/2006 The Boston MFA returns some pilfered artifacts to Italy
9/19/2006 DNA analysis tries to find origins of Britain's modern population
9/15/2006 The Olmec writing system
9/13/2006 The archaeology of the "War of the Roses"
9/10/2006 Use of colored pigments by early humans?
9/7/2006 "Pyramids" in the Ukraine?
8/27/2006 More on the Thera volcanic eruption
8/14/2006 Disputing the connection between the Essene sect and the site of Qumran
6/17/2006 A new and very early Etruscan tomb
6/12/2006 The Roman-era trading port of Muziris discovered in India?
6/10/2006 Neanderthal DNA
6/2/2006 Fig cultivation in prehistoric Jericho
5/31/2006 Prehistoric burial in the Roman Forum
5/18/2005 An elite Moche burial
5/16/2006 New Mayan discoveries
5/10/2006 Yet another blow for the "peaceful matriarchal Neolithic" community
5/8/2006 The Neanderthal/H. sap. sap. controversy
5/2/2006 Strong evidence for a 17th century date of the Akrotiri eruption
4/30/2006 Remains of Roman Lutetia
4/6/2006 Tooth-drilling in Neolithic Pakistan
4/6/2006 A new pyramid discovered in Mexico
4/1/2006 A controversial bequest
3/27/2006 A new Homo erectus find
3/26/2006 A Roman cemetery in England--full of headless bodies
3/9/2006 Ancient Egyptian ships
3/7/2006 Pompeii redux?
2/28/2006 A modern Pompeii; more
2/23/2006 Interesting info on forensic examination of gladiators
2/23/2006 New estimates on length of time for Neanderthal & h. sap. sap. interactions in Europe
2/21/2006 Not the conventional wisdom (old news to anyone outside the news media, actually)
2/14/2006 Paleolithic teen graffiti
2/13/2006 New 8-chambered Macedonian tomb discovered
2/9/2006 Intact non-royal tomb from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt; more; more
2/4/2006 Greek shipwreck of ca. 350 BC discovered
12/23/2005 Ancient canals in Peru
12/20/2005 Siamese twins in ancient Egypt
12/19/2005 Napoleon's army afflicted by typhus
12/16/2005 Evidence of warfare in Syria during the Uruk Period
12/14//2005 Homo heidelbergiensis in Europe by 700,000 BC?
12/14/2005 Early Maya painting discovered
12/11/2005 Archaeological discoveries at Fort Drum, NY
12/8/2005 Colonial-era fortification found in New York
11/24/2005 Report of ca. 125,000 year old stone tools in California
11/19/2005 Oldest known map from Classical antiquity--on a potsherd, no less
11/17/2005 A Mayan murder scene
11/17/2005 A fairly vague story in the NYT about museum ethics
11/9/2005 How about an extinct ape 10 ft. tall & weighing half a ton?
11/9/2005 Earliest known Hebrew inscription
11/6/2005 An early church discovered in Israel; more from the NYT
11/4/2005 A large coin hoard from the Isle of Wight
11/4/2005 Khajeh Mountain Complex in Iran
11/2/2005 A Neolithic village in England
10/25/2005 Royal lions from Britain's past
10/23/2005 Evidence for the sack of Cremona in 69 AD is reported
10/20/2005 Remote sensing of the Chinese emperor Qin's tomb
10/19/2005 Helen of Troy lived! (Oh, please--what a pile of rot this is)
10/19/2005 Excavations at the Roman town of Claterna
10/19/2005 Archaeology in Prague
10/18/2005 Numerous 1400 year old skeletons in Greek cave The explanation that they just gave up and starved doesn't seem very plausible.
10/18/2005 A newly found cursus linking the henge at Durrington Walls to the Avon
10/13/2005 Neolithic noodles from China
10/12/2005 More on the Flores "hobbits"
10/6/2005 Greek site of Avgi preserves impressive Neolithic remains
8/29/2005 A blurb on mummification in Egypt
8/29/2005 Mammoth bone homes from the Upper Paleolithic
8/29/2005 A blurb on mosaic restoration in the NYT
8/24/2005 Indirect evidence for the development of shoes Trinkhaus is NOT arguing for a Lamarckian evolutionary position--read carefully!
8/24/2005 New Inca city--living that high up, they must have had super lungs.
8/22/2005 Possible Viking grave site in Iceland Even by Viking standards, Egil Skalla-Grímsson had anger control issues.
8/15/2005 Recovering shipwrecks from the 1st Punic War
8/11/2005 Using X-ray fluorescence to recover worn inscriptions. The sample they show would not exactly be a challenge even to normal autopsy, though.
8/10/2005 Deciphering Inca khipu
8/7/2005 Medieval medicine
8/5/2005 Dendrochronology identifies Britain's oldest door
8/4/2005 A 10th century BC building from Jerusalem
7/24/2005 New finds from Thrace
7/20/2005 A silverware find from Pompeii
7/7/2005 Kennewick Man goes under the calipers
7/7/2005 I don't get political in these pages too often, but James Shikwati shows pretty clearly why the "Live 8 mentality" ends up harming those it wants to help.
7/6/2005 If the dating pans out, these footprints in Mexico pretty much end debate on whether humans were present in the Americas before 15,000 BC. The Guardian has a blurb too.
7/5/2005 Well, it is great that the Hermes & baby Dionysos group at Olympia has some seismic protection now. There is no way, however, that it is a Praxitelean original as the article claims.
6/29/2005 Underwater archaeology in Greece
6/28/2005 Early stone tool makers in Africa
6/27/2005 Some huge Roman forts in Wales
6/21/2005 A new "bog body" from Germany
6/21/2005 A newly discovered poem by Sappho
5/10/2005 A forensic reconstruction of King Tut's face
4/24/2005 A Greek temple discovered in Albania
4/24/2005 A Predynastic necropolis discovered in Egypt
4/20/2005 Beheaded Roman-era corpses in York
4/20/2005 Excavations reveal earlier Neolithic village under Pompeii that was buried by an earlier eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
4/19/2005 Infra-red light reveals many passages of lost literature from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. It's unlikely that we will be reading complete new works, but these will greatly expand the evidence for otherwise unknown authors.
4/13/2005 William Kelso, a former prof of mine, is named "Virginian of the Year" for his work at Jamestown Dr. Kelso was fondly known as "Wild Bill" to his students.
3/31/2005 Neutron activation analysis applied to ceramics from an Inca burial
3/29/2004 A knock-out for Hipparchos in the longstanding Claudius Ptolemy vs. Hipparchos controversy?
3/17/2005 A 2300 year old textile discovered in Viet Nam
3/16/2004 New Mayan finds at Copan in Honduras
3/15/2005 Interesting discoveries about the use of ground glass in Renaissance paints
3/15/2005 The real Cleopatra was a geek
3/15/2005 The Olmecs as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica
3/10/2005 New discoveries about pig domestication
3/3/2005 The Flores mini-humans again
3/1/2005 A blurb from the BBC on Peru's Moche civilization
2/20/2005 Fascinating discovery about ancient petroleum trade in Egypt
2/25/2005 "Resurrecting" the The Rose in London--what does "resurrect" mean here? Excavate? Reconstruct?
2/25/2005 A giant panda skeleton from a Chinese tomb
2/25/2005 An ancient perfume factory on Cyprus?
2/23/2005 A large hoard of silver Roman coins from Britain
2/22/2005 New discoveries of tombs in Macedonia
2/15/2005 Discoveries in the area of the Regia in the Roman Forum--interpreted as an 8th century BC palace
2/9/2005 Interesting research on Neanderthals
1/27/2005 Is this cool or what? Reading rolled up or unwrapped manuscripts with medical imaging technology.
1/26/2005 New arguments concerning the date of the Shroud of Turin
1/21/2005 My old colleague Steve Tuck weighs in on the "lethality" of Roman gladiatorial combats.
1/18/2005 Finds of Ardipithecus ramidus, an early hominid, in Ethiopia
1/18/2005 Explorations in Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome
1/14/2005 Petroglyphs in Northumberland
1/5/2005 A new Roman circus in Colchester, UK
12/24/2004 The Norte Chico culture in Peru: the New World's first civilization?
12/22/2004 "Amazon warriors" in Roman Britain
12/8/2004 New mummy finds in Egypt
11/29/2004 A Roman inn in Germany
11/26/2004 Has the tomb of Genghis Khan been found?
11/18/2004 Evidence of humans in South Carolina at 50,000 BP? The big issue here is whether the "stone tools" found in the relevant layer are actually human-made or only broken pieces of rock.
11/15/2004 "Researcher" claims to have discovered "Atlantis" near Cyprus--uh, yeah. Actually, I found it in the backyard of my old house, but men in black helicopters landed at night and took every single artifact and feature before I could publicize it. Really!
11/14/2004 Testing the "King Tut was murdered" theory
11/11/2004 Major finds from ancient Thrace
11/8/2004 Is this bizarre or what? A deadly ancient hailstorm in the Himalayas.
11/7/2004 Finding the Etruscan city of Clusium
11/7/2004 New research from the Bolivian highlands
11/4/2004 A jar of Roman cosmetics found in London
10/28/2004 The English elm..brought by the Romans
10/27/2004 A new human species from Flores? If this pans out, it is the find of a lifetime. The NYT also has a story on this, as does the BBC. More on the debate whether these were descendants of H. erectus or a miniature H. sapiens at the NYT. More at the Guardian.
10/24/2004 Lake Constance in southern Germany is home to a multitude of shipwrecks
10/24/2004 An interesting article on Cahokia Mounds
10/20/2004 Oldest known clay hearths found in Greece
10/19/2004 Chinese archaeologists are excavating tombs belonging to a Western Zhou duke
10/14/2004 The evolution of head lice
10/12/2004 The oldest wooden stairway ever found (13th century BC)
10/7/2004 Hunting the grave of Genghis Khan (even if they say that they aren't)
10/4/2004 A new Thracian tomb in Bulgaria (4th cent. BC?)
10/4/2004 Advanced Medieval surgery?
9/14/2004 Skeleton from a crewman in the British Navy found in a shipwreck
9/7/2004 A newly discovered Viking cemetery in the UK
9/6/2004 This theory about the first migrants to the Americas coming from Japan/Polynesia/Australia is not as new as it's made out to be, but is nonetheless interesting.
9/3/2004 Discoveries about the development of bipedalism in early hominids
9/1/2004 "MEN FROM EARLY MIDDLE AGES WERE NEARLY AS TALL AS MODERN PEOPLE"--not clear whether this applies to women too.
8/26/2004 A horse burial in northern Ossetia
8/26/2004 A new Canaanite city from the Early Bronze Age
8/25/2004 A Chinese "mummy" from the Han Dynasty
8/24/2004 The Lower Paleolithic in Jordan--new finds
8/22/2004 Not archaeology, but the theft of Munch's The Scream certainly highlights problems of museum security.
8/20/2004 Part of the Persian fleet sunk in 493/2 found?
8/20/2004 Seals found at a Sassanid Persian site in Iran
8/18/2004 Restoring the Cutty Sark
8/16/2004
"Group Discovers John the Baptist Cave"--don't bet the rent on this one.
Doesn't the N.T. have John doing his baptizing in the Jordan River? The cave
reported on here is west of Jerusalem.
8/12/2004 Forensic
reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon princess' face
4/30/2004 Possible evidence of fire use by Homo erectus around 700,000 BC
4/29/2004 A new "maze o' mummies" in Egypt from the Late and Ptolemaic Periods
4/29/2004 Mighty cool research on the Forma Urbis Romae, the ancient marble plan of Rome
4/29/2004 Most excellent news about Iran allowing archaeologists back in
4/26/2004 A new Maya relief panel from the 8th century AD
4/20/2004 A new "Rosetta Stone"--this one about Ptolemy III, not Ptolemy V
4/18/2004 One of the cities founded by Alexander the Great in Uzbekistan
4/15/2004 Shell jewelry from the Middle Paleolithic in South Africa
4/9/2004 It's not often that intact stringed instruments are found, let alone ones nearly 3000 years old