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 Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the...
Category : Archaeology
Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site
Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list Italy’s Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the earliest and...
Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study
Research argues tremors occurred as Vesuvius erupted in AD79, causing buildings to collapse on to people Victims who perished in Pompeii after the devastating AD79...
Remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago found in central France
Archaeologists trying to determine whether animals were killed in battle or buried as part of a ritual French archaeologists have uncovered nine large graves containing...
Banquet room with preserved frescoes unearthed among Pompeii ruins
‘Black room’ with frescoes inspired by Trojan war described as one of most striking discoveries ever made at site in southern Italy A banquet room...
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 One of the largest and most significant sites of rock...
Archaeologists find Pompeii fresco depicting Greek mythological siblings
Phrixus and Helle are depicted in vibrant colours with exquisite artistry in remarkable discovery In a remarkable discovery at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii,...
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 A stone age wall discovered beneath the...
Remains of bronze age tomb discovered in County Kerry in Ireland
Altóir na Gréine stood for approximately 4,000 years on Dingle peninsula before vanishing in 19th century The remnants of a bronze age tomb once thought...
Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe ‘1,000 years earlier than previously thought’
Reanalysis of skeletal remains in Spain suggests conflicts took place about 5,000 years ago in neolithic period, say researchers The earliest period of warfare in...
