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Posted On: Feb 19th, 2016 at 14:43

**Breaking News** England I do say I get quite annoyed at the media’s constant comparison with other sites – “British Pompeii” in this case – but still, this incredible find speaks for itself. This site in Cambridgeshire is proving to be one of the most important archaeological sites in British history. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35598578

Posted On: Feb 14th, 2016 at 13:46

Turkey Congratulations to me, congratulations to me! No, it’s not my birthday, I’m a summer baby. I have just finished my latest travelogue and I have to say it was the toughest one to date. Ironically after last reporting on my travelogues and stating that the tagging of the photos takes much longer than the … Read More

Posted On: Feb 13th, 2016 at 11:12

Italy There are quite a few new animated – and very real – short films now available that focus on Roman life and specific Roman towns. This particular one shows the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which buried the town of Pompeii under a blanket of hot ash in 79 AD. Thanks to my friend Italo … Read More

Posted On: Feb 9th, 2016 at 21:09

**Breaking News** England – Badger becomes Stonehenge archaeologist. It’s been revealed that a badger had dug up a Bronze Age cremation burial five miles from Stonehenge. The site, at Netheravon, is part of MOD land and is frequented by tanks that cross main roads on a regular basis, not to mention the large army camp … Read More

Posted On: Feb 8th, 2016 at 21:06

Mexico One of the most prevalent ideas about who the Mexica culture sacrificed has been crushed by new findings. The Mexica – more commonly, and wrongly, known as the Aztecs – were the most prolific human sacrificers in history, if the Spanish texts are to be believed. There is no doubt they did sacrifice a … Read More

Posted On: Jan 30th, 2016 at 21:08

Peru Caral is the oldest known civilisation to have existed in the whole of the American continent, let alone Peru. At least 5,000 years ago this culture sprung up in the Supe Valley, around 140 miles north of the modern city of Lima. But there is one problem – the inhabitants of Caral were so … Read More

Posted On: Jan 29th, 2016 at 21:07

I have been keeping a minor secret for a little while, although not intentionally. I have created a second YT channel, this time for my own home-made videos that I record while at archaeology sites. In the future I shall be making more “professional” versions of these videos – I use the term “professional” loosely … Read More

Posted On: Jan 28th, 2016 at 17:47

Turkey Another travelogue, this time Antiphellos in ancient Lycia, today known as Kaş, a small fishing town on the coast of Asia Minor. Still having problems with the quality of the featured image at the top of the page, and even my web guy is a bit mystified as to why this is occurring, despite … Read More

Posted On: Jan 26th, 2016 at 17:26

Turkey My latest travelogue, this time the magical location of Olympos in Lycia, Anatolia. Olympos is steeped in myth and mystery, to the point that there is very little historical information available. That aside the setting for Olympos is rather stunning. Unfortunately there have been some minor technical issues that my web guy is trying … Read More

Posted On: Jan 26th, 2016 at 01:27

Iran A very old grave has been discovered in the Burnt City in Iran, but its great age of 4,600 years is not the astonishing element of this incredible find. The 40-year-old woman in the grave was also buried with 112 objects. That may not seem so astonishing until you discover that another grave in … Read More

Posted On: Jan 21st, 2016 at 00:20

Italy A Roman dry cleaners, thought to be around two thousand years old, has been restored at Pompeii and is now open to the public, although I must point out this opening is solely for looking at the archaeology, not for cleaning ones clothing… 🙂 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12068416/A-2000-year-old-ancient-Roman-laundromat-open-to-public-for-first-time.html

Posted On: Jan 13th, 2016 at 19:31

England. By now everyone knows about the astonishing find in Cambridgeshire, but I missed the opportunity to post it as a ‘breaking news’ release as I’ve been somewhat preoccupied of late with more life upheavals. But fear not, as The Daily Mash have produced their own hilarious version of the news. I did find this … Read More

Posted On: Jan 9th, 2016 at 14:23

Italy An intact tomb found near Perugia may shed light on the enigmatic Etruscan civilisation that flourished long before the Roman empire. Very little is known about the Etruscans, but this tomb may help archaeologists to understand more about their daily life and rituals. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/etruscan-tomb-found_56650848e4b08e945fefe486?

Posted On: Jan 7th, 2016 at 22:48

Greece / Italy Like the buried remains of Pompeii, a part of ancient Selinunte in Sicily was preserved under a collpased building roof when invaders burnt the city in the 5th Century BC. Archaeologists have even found uneaten food in bowls and unfired pots as the city was attacked rapidly and mercilessly by North African … Read More

Posted On: Jan 3rd, 2016 at 19:43

**Breaking News** England. A new Roman road has been discovered in northwest England and is the first such road to be found in 150 years. Archaeologists always knew there was a road linking Ribchester and Lancaster but for all this time they have been looking in the wrong place. The reason being that Roman roads … Read More

Posted On: Dec 30th, 2015 at 17:59

England Luckily for Ikea the Roman Empire no longer exists, otherwise they’d be sued under the Patents Act for stealing their ideas. “Flat-pack” churches were a common feature under the Roman emperor Justinian – they were shipped to all corners of the empire to be quickly erected so as to enforce the new religion. This … Read More

Posted On: Dec 22nd, 2015 at 02:19

The World To celebrate the achievements of our ancestors, who watched and mastered the movements of the stars and planets, and gave us all our knowledge, and who calculated the solar year and figured out the shortest and longest days and the equinoxes, happy winter solstice to all. The winter solstice was, and still is, … Read More

Posted On: Dec 21st, 2015 at 23:10

El Salvador I really don’t like clichéd titles but it’s not surprising this place has been labelled the “Pompeii of the New World”. Despite the lack of frozen in time dead bodies the similarities are all to apparent. That means, of course, an archaeologists dream – a site frozen in time and providing an insight into … Read More

Posted On: Dec 20th, 2015 at 13:43

Argentina (Peru, Chile, Bolivia) A boy sacrificed by the Inca on a mountaintop in Argentina around 500 years ago has had his complete mitochondrial DNA sequenced and this maternal DNA is from an extremely rare genome. One section of the DNA can be traced through the Paleoindian genome all the way to 18,000 years ago, … Read More

Posted On: Dec 18th, 2015 at 18:41

China It seems China’s first female emperor was as brutal as her male equivalents. Wu Zetian declared herself emperor – or should we be saying ’empress’ – when her emperor husband died in 690 AD. A tomb discovered in China in 2002 (and not reported until 2014) contained, among other things, several bluestones inscribed with … Read More