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Showing posts with label archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archaeology. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2016

Bringing a Bronze Age Face to Light: Face of the Greek Griffin Warrior

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Ancient Origins Researchers believe that a Bronze Age skeleton found near the Mycenaean palace of Nestor was once a handsome man wi...
Monday, February 8, 2016

10 facts about Stonehenge

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History Extra  Built in several stages, Stonehenge began about 5,000 years ago as a simple earthwork enclosure where prehistoric people ...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Decaying and Looted Pompeii Gets a Big Infusion of Care from the Italian Government

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Pompeii, the city frozen in time by a super-hot gas cloud and ash that erupted from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been placed under the pro...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Did defenders of castles really pour boiling oil down on attackers?

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Siege towers and cannon can be seen in this depiction of the Siege of Orleans but no boiling oil History Extra Defenders facing d...
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In a nutshell: the Dark Ages

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History Extra Historians are in the dark about a great swathe of western European history, for which there is limited written record...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Mysterious Stone Carving May Contain Old Message

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by Owen Jarus Live Science James Balme, an archaeologist and TV presenter, dis...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Ancient Roman skulls found in underground London construction site

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People have lived in London for more than 2,000 years and every now and then there is a reminder of just how old the capital city is. For ...
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