Archaeology

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Shells from Captain Cook’s final voyage saved from skip
Important collection rediscovered during house-clearing includes numerous rare species

Mark Brown North of England correspondent

12, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM

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Crypt by Alice Roberts review – resurrecting the past
From murdered Vikings to an anchorite with syphilis, how human remains are reshaping history

Kathryn Hughes

07, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway
Archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures in Vingen could be destroyed when digging begins

Dalya Alberge

02, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Archaeologists find Pompeii fresco depicting Greek mythological siblings
Phrixus and Helle are depicted in vibrant colours with exquisite artistry in remarkable discovery

Lorenzo Tondo

01, Mar, 2024 @5:31 PM

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Long-buried Atlas statue raised to guard Temple of Zeus in Sicily once more
Eight-metre statue dating from fifth century BC restored and assembled piece-by-piece to be displayed in Valley of the Temples

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

29, Feb, 2024 @12:32 PM

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‘Highway to horror’: 14 wrecked slavers’ ships are identified in Bahamas
Largest cluster of sunken vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries have been identified, bearing ‘silent witness’ to the colonial past

Dalya Alberge

25, Feb, 2024 @9:00 AM

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‘A Neolithic miracle’: readers’ favourite ancient UK sites
Our tipsters celebrate our distant ancestors at mystical and atmospheric sites from County Fermanagh to Cornwall

Guardian readers

23, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

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‘Very rare’ clay figurine of Mercury discovered at Roman site in Kent
Previously unknown settlement in Small Hythe was once an important infrastructure link

Esther Addley

23, Feb, 2024 @5:00 AM

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Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
The long read: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask

Jacob Mikanowski

20, Feb, 2024 @5:00 AM

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Ancient faces brought back to life at Scottish museum
Dramatic reconstructions of local people who lived up to 4,000 years ago will go on display thanks to advanced DNA techniques

Dalya Alberge

17, Feb, 2024 @5:06 PM

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David Hawkins obituary
Other lives: Leading scholar of the languages of ancient Turkey

Andrew George

15, Feb, 2024 @7:40 PM

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Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’
Structure stretches for almost a kilometre off coast of Germany and may have once stood by a lake

Ian Sample Science editor

12, Feb, 2024 @8:00 PM

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