11/20/2009 Puzzling animal extinctions
11/18/2009 Atherosclerotic Egyptians
11/10/2009 Mayan paintings
11/10/2009 Cambyses’ lost army found in the Sahara?
11/4/2009 Roman-era grave in Thrace
11/1/2009 Important Mayan site found in lake
10/28/2009 Moving the Battle of Bosworth
10/16/2009 We are all girly-men and girly-women according to this anthropologist
10/12/2009 Some well-preserved artifacts from the Mary Rose
10/6/2009 Some serious high tech brought to bear on a possible hidden Leonardo painting
10/2/2009 OMG-Bluehenge!
10/1/2009 Newly discovered early hominid, Ardipithecus ramidus
10/1/2009 Excavations at Portus near Rome; more
9/24/2009 Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold artifacts discovered; a much more informative post here
9/17/2009 Conservation of Viking artifacts
9/8/2009 Fido...it's what was for dinner?
9/7/2009 Easter Island sculptures
9/3/2009 A Canaanite wall in East Jerusalem
9/3/2009 An earlier date for Acheulean tools (and presumably Homo erectus) in Europe
8/28/2009 A really nice hoard of silver
8/26/2009 More on "hobbits"
8/15/2009 A new theory about the construction of Hadrian's Wall
8/14/2009 Another early British trackway
8/14/2009 Early heat treatment of stone-knapping materials
8/12/2009 Embittered Neanderthals
8/9/2009 New ideas about Cahokia
7/30/2009 Roman Altinum emerges
7/23/2009 Roman shipwrecks
7/16/2009 Upper Paleolithic Britain
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
3/24/2009 Neat discovery in a medieval church
3/24/2009 Original Greek bronze sculpture recovered from sea
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 No Neanderthal ancestors, folks
2/9/2009 Peering inside a mummy case
2/4/2009 Organic residue analysis shows chocolate use in Chaco Canyon
1/18/2008 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
12/18/2008 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
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
8/28/2008 Dead Sea scrolls on display
8/28/2008 Not archaeology, but interesting points about the difficulty of painting true frescoes
8/26/2008 A new monumental sculpture of Marcus Aurelius from Sagalassos
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
8/13/2008 Roman temple found under church in Israel
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
5/2/2008 Portuguese (?) shipwreck off the Namibian coast
4/29/2008 Yeah, but I bet even they didn't eat Brussels Sprouts
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
4/8/2008 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
4/4/2008 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 Determining the source of the tsunami that struck Alexandria in 365 AD
4/1/2008 Earliest known gold necklace from the New World; more
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
3/19/2008 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"
2/28/2008 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
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
12/28/2007 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
12/19/2007 New finds at Karnak in Egypt
12/14/2007 Captain Kidd's ship discovered?
12/13/2007 New discoveries at Caistor in England
12/11/2007 Evolution in modern human populations
12/6/2007 Viking halls found in Norway
12/5/2007 Very cool discovery of a wooden chair at Herculaneum
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
11/13/2007 Chocolate use in 1000 BC
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
10/28/2007 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
10/5/2007 It would indeed be a pity if Cyrus' tomb is damaged
10/4/2007 Digitizing old books in the British Library
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 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 A gladiator graveyard in Ephesus?
4/22/2007 Intact Thracian chariot excavated
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
4/3/2007 Homo sapiens sapiens in China
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
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
2/16/2007 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
1/24/2007 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
1/9/2007 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
12/1/2006 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
11/17/2006 More neanderthal DNA
11/17/2006 Manuscript preservation in India
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
9/28/2006 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?
6/2/2006 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
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 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 New Inca city--living that high up, they must have had super lungs.
8/15/2005 Recovering shipwrecks from the 1st Punic War
8/10/2005 Deciphering Inca khipu
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
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