The father of evolution Charles Darwin was a direct descendant of the Cro-Magnon people, whose entry into Europe 30,000 years ago heralded the demise of Neanderthals, scientists revealed in Australia Thursday.Darwin, who hypothesise...

This is an overdue and overlong entry, but I have been watching the British Museum-Iran controversy unfold over the past couple of days and wanted to cover it here… Nowadays, headlines about Iran tend to be about the detention or ar...

Ben Hur in Colchester? Race is on to save UK’s only Roman chariot racetrack When the white handkerchief dropped, the Ben Hurs of Colchester would have set off down Circular Road North, past the banked tiers of seats, turning left at...

Actually, not much, although I suppose I could regale you with the story of how I daringly wrote a couple of paragraphs on the stratigraphic chronology of Kom el-Hisn. Didn’t watch much of the Stupor Bowl, although I liked the outco...

Supervisor wants to excavate old mill A township supervisor wants to unearth the remains of the old Kooker/Springer Mill at Fischer’s Park. Dr. Tom Hollenbeck has already asked archaeologists at Temple University and the University ...

Relic of long dead past surfaces Workers find gravestone beneath library front lawn Workers unexpectedly unearthed an old gravestone while digging a power line trench on the front lawn of the Silas Bronson Library on Friday. The n...

Lost for posterity? Just four kilometres from Sisupalgarh is the Dhauli hill. At its base is an Ashokan Pillar with edicts from the Emperor. Ashoka fought the Kalinga War that converted him from a ferocious marauder to a pacifist ...

Archaeologists examine finds A mediaeval gold coin discovered by a man who initially thought it was wrapping paper glittering in the sunshine was one major find produced to experts at an artefacts road show staged at Faulkland villa...

Lately I've been listening to Canadian 90s/00s orchestral popsters the Heavy Blinkers. Here's a fine song off of their '02 album Better Weather, "I Used to Be a Design". I actually prefer this live version since its production is ...

I have been re-reading the essay, "The Universal Museum: a special case?" (ICOM News 1, 2004), by Geoffrey Lewis, the chair of the ICOM Ethics Committee. The real purpose of the Declaration was, however, to establish a higher degre...

The 86th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at the Testimony of the Spade on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Magnus, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on 10 Ma...

Archeologists have discovered the 2,000-year-old skeleton of an Asian man in an ancient cemetery in Italy, suggesting that the Roman Empire's reach was far more extensive than previously thought. Although the Romans are known to hav...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a water pump - possibly unique - in the grounds of Walton Gardens. Members of Priestley Field Archaeology Group (PFAG) carried out a three-year excavation on behalf of Warrington Borough Council, which ...

Another banner month for Corinth related articles! This past week saw the publication of A.H. Rohn's, E. Barnes's, and G.D.R. Sander's "An Early Ottoman Cemetery at Ancient Corinth," Hesperia 78 (2009), 501-615. It's fantastic that ...

Design watchdog hits out at plans for £20m visitor centre at megalithic jewel in England's cultural crownIts footpaths are "tortuous", the roof likely to "channel wind and rain" and its myriad columns – meant to evoke a forest – are...

Hundreds of solar eclipses were recorded by medieval chroniclers, offering historians of astronomy with some vital information about how people in the Middle Ages reacted to this phenomenon. The latest research into this subject has...

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) believes the centre's "twee paths" are "more appropriate for an urban garden" and its "delicate roof" is unsuitable for the wind and rain that sweeps across the majest...

Work has begun to protect four ancient monuments in the North Pennines which have suffered centuries of bad weather.They are Whitesyke and Bentyfield lead mines in Cumbria, Shildon engine house and Ninebanks Tower in Northumberland ...

When the white handkerchief dropped, the Ben Hurs of Colchester would have set off down Circular Road North, past the banked tiers of seats, turning left at Napier Road, their iron tyres gouging a deep rut in the track,and back up p...

A 2000-year-old body found in a northeastern Jutland bog has received a makeover – coroner style The female known as the Auning Woman, found in a northeastern Jutland bog 1886, and housed at the Museum for Culture and History in...T...