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Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 km to build Britain’s tallest prehistoric stone row | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (599+ words) Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 kilometers across Yorkshire to build Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row, a new study finds. The stones form the Devil’s Arrows near Boroughbridge in northern England. Three giant gritstone pillars still stand there, with the…...
Ancient harbors were far larger than their surviving walls suggest | Archaeology News Online Magazine
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (589+ words) Ancient Mediterranean harbors are often judged by the structures still visible today. Quays, jetties and moles form the clearest traces, so they often shape estimates of how many ships a port once handled. A new study argues for a wider…...
Low-cost LED technology helps archaeologists see hidden layers before excavation | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 3+ day ago (558+ words) A low-cost imaging system using 16 wavelengths of light could help archaeologists spot hidden layers and materials before excavation removes them. Researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum in Denmark developed the LED multispectral imaging system, or LEDMSI, to reveal differences…...
1,200-year-old wallaby teeth reveal rare Indigenous jewelry from Australia | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (583+ words) Archaeologists have found 12 wallaby teeth with resin attached to their roots at Windmill Way, a rock shelter in Queensland, Australia. The unusual finds date to about 1,100 to 1,300 years ago and are the first such tooth ornaments found in a non-burial…...
18.5-kilogram Viking silver hoard found in Denmark is the largest ever discovered | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (643+ words) A routine garden project in Rebild has led to the largest known Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Denmark. The hoard contains 18.5 kilograms of silver, almost three times the weight of the previous record holder. The find was made…...
Rare snake-headed vessel links rural Spain to an obscure Roman cult | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (628+ words) A rare ceramic vessel found at a Roman villa in northeastern Spain suggests the private cult of the eastern god Sabazios reached rural communities during the reign of Augustus. Researchers from the University of Girona studied several fragments from the…...
17th-century ship reconstruction Batavia to be brought ashore after 30 years for preservation work | Archaeology News Online Magazine
2+ week, 4+ day ago (472+ words) The Batavia, the world’s largest reconstruction of a 17th-century ship, will leave the water this autumn for major preservation work. The 56-meter-long, 650-ton vessel will move from Lelystad to Amsterdam before returning to Museum Batavialand. The ship’s final voyage is…...
Stone from Henry VIII’s long-lost Sandown Castle was reused in Dover Castle, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
2+ week, 5+ day ago (526+ words) Stone from a lost Tudor fortress built by Henry VIII was reused during Victorian work at Dover Castle, new research suggests. Dr Christopher Moore, a Research Fellow at the University of Kent, traced masonry from Sandown Castle to an 1883-84 extension…...
First confirmed trebuchet victim identified from 700-year-old Stirling Castle skeleton | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (513+ words) A shattered skeleton found beneath Stirling Castle’s chapel floor in Scotland appears to be the first confirmed archaeological victim of a trebuchet attack. Researchers reached the conclusion after studying Skeleton 150, a young man whose remains carry more than 160 fractures. The…...
6,500-year-old Czech sanctuary linked to the Sun and Moon predates Stonehenge by 1,000 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 1+ day ago (533+ words) A 6,500-year-old ritual center near Chleby in the Czech Republic was built more than 1,000 years before Stonehenge, new research shows. The large enclosure appears to have been planned around key movements of the Sun and Moon. Archaeologists from the University…...