Crucifiction?

Naked Archaeologist Simcha Jakobovici claims to have found candidates for some cross nails, or nails from the cross.

Pre-Clovis Site in Texas

There’s been a discovery in Central Texas that’s stirring-up the debate on the first peopling of the Americas. Thousands of stone artefacts have been unearthed in a creek valley northwest of Austin, including more than 50 tools which potentially pre-date the technology used by the Clovis people. The...

The Nichoria Bone

Paddling across the pond, this next news story talks about the famous ‘Nichoria Bone’, a large fossil of an extinct mega mammal, likely a woolly rhinoceros, that roamed southern Greece around one million years ago. It’s significant because the bone wasn’t found by a modern team of palaeontologists o...

Iron Age Massacre

Archaeologists working in Derbyshire have this month reported the discovery of a mass grave on an Iron Age hill fort. Dr Clive Waddington of Archaeological Research Services described how a series of burials, dated to around 390BC, indicated something of a massacre occurred at Fin Cop....

Largest Roman Site in England?

It looks like diggers have found what could be one of the largest archaeological sites in England. And it’s been hidden safely away under a forest called Bedford Purlieus Wood.

How to: Zooarchaeology

Angelos explains how zooarchaeologists go about analysing animal bones in order to study the sites from which they're excavated.

Reconstructing Barnes Wallis' experiments on the bouncing bomb

Dr Hugh Hunt tells us about his work in solving the same problems that Barnes Wallis faced when he designed the famous weapon used by the dam busters.