Des archéologues de New York et de Sydney ont pu percer les secrets de l’identité et de la conservation de plusieurs momies égyptiennes grâce à l’analyse de photos détaillées obtenues par l’imagerie médicale…
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The skulls of scores of young men have been found in a burial pit on the route of a new road in Dorset.So far 45 skulls, believed to be almost 2,000 years old, have been found, and more may be found as the pit is emptied. Archaeologists have called the discovery extraordinary, saying it could [...]

TWO 6,000-year-old tombs have been unearthed in Hampshire in one of the biggest archaeological finds for years. The discovery, thought to be among the oldest ever made in the UK, is set to shed new light on the life led by the county’s earliest settlers. Flint tools and fragments of pottery have already been retrieved [...]

Egyptian researchers are using DNA tests to discover the lineage of pharaoh king Tutankhamun, whose ancestry remains a mystery to Egyptologists, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday.The young king, whose mummy was found in a gold and turquoise sarcophagus by English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, ruled Egypt between 1333 and 1324 BC.His ancestry [...]

Workmen inside Florence’s courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole, barely four metres deep, for [...]

Ancient Roman writing tablets suggest public officials were involved in expenses scandals 2,000 years ago.Writing tablets uncovered near Hadrian’s Wall detail hundreds of expenses claimed by Roman officials, Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd said.
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 - Archaeologists have found a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb near Egypt’s mud brick Lahun pyramid, in a sign that the site held religious significance a millennium before previously thought, the site head said Tuesday.The find, down crumbling steps in sand covered desert rock, debunks a prior understanding by archaeologists that the site dates back only to [...]

The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawwas said 9/5/2009 that a Greek archeological mission under Calliope Papacosta discovered a rare statue made of white marble in Alexandria. 
 

 
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The ancient town of Pavlopetri lies in three to four metres of water just off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. The ruins date from at least 2800 BC through to intact buildings, courtyards, streets, chamber tombs and some thirty-seven cist graves which are thought to belong to the Mycenaean period (c.1680-1180 BC). This Bronze [...]

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed remains of a large Roman “shanty town” in Teesdale that could shed light on the last days of the occupation of Britain.Excavations carried out in Bowes have revealed significant evidence of an unplanned settlement, called a vicus, which grew up on the outskirts of the Roman fort.
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