Ancient Roman fort yields 2,000-year-old fruit that survived the centuries, plus other treasures

Archaeologists discovered rare Roman relics at Bremenium Fort in northern England, including 2,000-year-old preserved fruit, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design

The intaglio was likely set in a signet ring and used to stamp correspondence at Bremenium, a military outpost located ...

Treasure finds in England reach record high

Treasure finds in England have hit a record high, with a lamp shaped like a human foot and an earwax scoop among the more ...
Ancient Origins

4,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Tree Trunk Coffin to Make Museum Debut

A massive 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin, carved from a single oak tree and discovered by chance at a Lincolnshire golf club, has arrived at Lincoln Museum, UK, where it will be displayed to the ...

Castle finds to be analysed in 'open lab'

Historic findings from a medieval palace are to be analysed in front of the public as part of an "open laboratory". The ...
Hartford Courant

New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut (THE CONVERSATION) The abandoned ...
Keene State College

The Shock of Colonialism: Archaeology in a New England Frontier

In this talk based on her recent book, The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, archaeologist Dr. Meghan C. L. Howey shares her research on the seventeenth-century colonial ...
The Harvard Crimson

Archaeologists Present Findings on Enslaved People Buried in Old Burying Ground

Harvard archaeology professor Jason Ur and Johns Hopkins professor Aja M. Lans presented their findings on the enslaved individuals buried in the Old Burying Ground cemetery across from Harvard Yard ...
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New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...