Archaeology
Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests
Thermal bath complex is latest discovery among ruins of Italian city destroyed by Vesuvius eruption in AD79
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
17, Jan, 2025 @12:47 PM
Archaeologists uncover Roman ‘service station’ during roadworks in Gloucester
The mutatio, on Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester, would have provided a place for travellers to rest or change horses
Steven Morris
16, Jan, 2025 @5:00 AM
Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests
Study highlights role of women in Celtic Britain and challenges assumptions most societies were patrilocal
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
15, Jan, 2025 @4:00 PM
Country diary: The ever-changing woods give and take away | Ed Douglas
Hay Wood, Derbyshire: I’d come here for one thing, and found another – a new fallen tree, with nuggetty fungus like nightmarish toenails
Ed Douglas
14, Jan, 2025 @5:30 AM
Matthew Flinders’ lead coffin plate completes voyage from underground London to South Australia
Explorer was buried in home town after his remains were found during construction of UK’s high-speed rail
Tory Shepherd
13, Jan, 2025 @2:00 PM
I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud | Mike Pitts
A dig near Bicester has uncovered spectacular tracks in what was once a Jurassic lagoon
Mike Pitts
05, Jan, 2025 @6:30 AM
‘The hair stands up’: citizen archaeologists unearth ancient treasures in Scotland
Members of the public are helping to sustain digs across the country, even as volunteering declines
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
03, Jan, 2025 @2:00 PM
How Italy’s Carabinieri cultural heritage protection squad foiled tomb-raiders
The force recently uncovered a clandestine dig in the middle of Naples
Angela Giuffrida in Naples
02, Jan, 2025 @5:00 AM
Scandinavians came to Britain long before Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, finds study
Genetic analysis of Roman soldier or gladiator buried in York reveals 25% of his ancestry came from Scandinavia
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
01, Jan, 2025 @4:00 PM
Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical texts
Sammy Gecsoyler
26, Dec, 2024 @5:30 PM
‘Really incredible’ sixth-century sword found in Kent
Exclusive: Sword is among striking objects unearthed from Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury
Dalya Alberge
26, Dec, 2024 @12:30 PM
Country diary: The moon is as high as it can ever get here | Amy-Jane Beer
Aldro, North Yorkshire: The ‘major lunar standstill’ only happens every 18.6 years, and once upon a time it would have been an unavoidable event
Amy-Jane Beer
24, Dec, 2024 @5:30 AM
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