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Cover Image Credit: Flagstones enclosure seen shortly after construction in the middle Neolithic period. Reconstruction by Jennie Anderson

Britain’s Oldest Prehistoric Circle Uncovered, Potential Blueprint for Stonehenge

10 March 2025

Recent archaeological findings at the prehistoric funerary site of Flagstones in Dorset have unveiled that this remarkable circular enclosure, dating...

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Archaeologists Find the “Lost” House of the Last Anglo-Saxon King Depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry

28 January 2025

A team from Newcastle University and the University of Exeter have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the...

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Archaeologists Discovered One of the Earliest Christian Buildings in Bahrain

14 July 2024

Archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest known Christian buildings in the Arabian Gulf, located in Samahij, Bahrain, and providing...

Jousting knights, an illustration from an English manuscript, 15th century

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Horse cemetery in Westminster revealed as likely resting place for elite imported animals

25 March 2024

Archaeological analysis of a medieval horse cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed the international scale of...

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Roman road network spanning the South West of England identified in new research

7 August 2023

A Roman road network spanning across Devon and Cornwall has been discovered by the University of Exeter archaeologists. A Roman...

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The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new research suggests

20 April 2022

The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new...

Las Dantas panel at Cerro Azul, La Lindosa

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12,000-Year-Old rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age

13 March 2022

South America was filled with ice age animals more than 12,000 years ago, including car-sized ground sloths, elephantine herbivores, and...

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According to new research, medieval warhorses were shockingly diminutive in height

12 January 2022

Medieval warhorses are often depicted as massive and powerful beasts, but in reality, many were no more than pony-sized by...

Britain’s Oldest Prehistoric Circle Uncovered, Potential Blueprint for Stonehenge

Archaeologists Find the “Lost” House of the Last Anglo-Saxon King Depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry

Archaeologists Discovered One of the Earliest Christian Buildings in Bahrain

Horse cemetery in Westminster revealed as likely resting place for elite imported animals

Roman road network spanning the South West of England identified in new research

The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new research suggests

12,000-Year-Old rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age

According to new research, medieval warhorses were shockingly diminutive in height

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Jiroft: The Mysterious Rival of Mesopotamia and the Dawn of an Ancient Civilization

Restoration Complete: Athena Temple in Side Reopens to the Public

3,000-Year-Old Huge Settlement Discovered in Northern France

3,700-Year-Old Bronze Age Ceremonial Site Discovered in Derbyshire, in Northern England

700-Year-Old Lord Vishnu’s Sculpture Washes Ashore on Pedda Rushikonda Beach

Well-Preserved Funerary Enclosures, Mausoleums, and Gladiator Epitaph Discovered in Ancient Roman Colony of Liternum, Italy

Archaeological Complex from the Bulgar-Golden Horde Period Discovered in Tatarstan

5,000-Year-Old Fortress Discovered in Romania Using LiDAR Technology

A 1,500-Year-Old Roman Settlement Discovered in Bulgaria

Rare Viking Armlet and 2,000-Year-Old Golden Neck Ring Discovered in Sweden