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The Manchester Museum contains an intriguing object numbered 296. At 38cm long and 7.8cm in diameter, at first sight it looks like a thin pottery vessel, open at one end and with a small hole at the other.
Were it not for the chance discovery of a dead bee inside (and traces of pollen), the function of this object may have gone unrecognised as an ancient Egyptian beehive. 
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A Siberian mummy believed to have been buried around 2,500 years ago is now on display in a glass sarcophagus at the Republican National Museum, where viewers can admire her intricate, beautifully rendered tattoos.
Named the Ukok Princess by researchers, she’s estimated to have died around the age of 25 and was buried in luxurious Chinese silk, leading experts to believe she might have been a royal healer of some sort.
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The burial of a high ranked individual of the ancient zapotecan society, accompanied by an offering, was discovered by archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH – Conaculta), on the third tomb of the Aztompa Archaeological Zone in Oaxaca. After the three-month old finding of a hitherto unheard of funerary complex which is composed of three funerary chambers, investigators were finally able to enter the third prehispanic sepulcher where, among other objects, they found a red vase with a human face estimated to date back to between 650 – 850 d. C.
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A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a body-less skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago in England. (Learn essential info for human brain tissue preservation!
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1. The word 'Neolithic' is of Inuit origin. It is composed of three separate portions. The first is 'neo' meaning - an abundance, the second is 'lit' meaning - ancient, and the last is 'hic' - meaning - leatherworkers. When all three parts are assembled together the word Neolithic comes to mean 'A Load of Old Cobblers.'...
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Over the last two years there have been some interesting applications of soil science and geomorphology to help archaeologists with their search for sites that could contain many Aboriginal artefacts from Pre-Settlement times ...
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We see it every day on signs, billboards, packaging, in books and magazines; in fact, you are looking at it now — the Latin or Roman alphabet, the world’s most prolific, most widespread abc.
Typography is a relatively recent invention, but to unearth the origins of alphabets, we will need to travel much farther back in time, to an era contemporaneous with the emergence of (agricultural) civilisation itself.
Robert Bringhurst wrote that writing is the solid form of language, the precipitate.[1] But writing is also much more than that, and its origins, its evolution, and the way it is now woven into the fabric of civilisations makes it a truly wonderful story. That story spans some 5,000 years.
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Inchmarnock is a small island off the west coast of Bute in the Firth of Clyde.
Between 2000 and 2004 a wide-ranging programme of survey and excavation of multiple sites throughout the island was undertaken by a team from Headland Archaeology as part of a wider environmental audit on behalf of its new owner.
Among the sites investigated was a rock shelter with Late Iron Age and early medieval occupation deposits, medieval corn-drying kilns, and a building platform on which a 17th-century turf-built longhouse was erected, masking medieval and early medieval activity. But the key site to understanding the island’s history is the 12th-century church whose robbed-out foundations were left partially exposed after local excavations in the 1970s. The Early Christian origins of the site have long been recognised through discoveries of early cross slabs; now radiocarbon dates clearly indicate activity from at least the third quarter of the 1st millennium AD. A late medieval literate presence, possibly associated with regulation of pilgrimage activity on the island, is also clearly evidenced.
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A "curse tablet" made of lead and buried in a Roman farmstead is unearthed in Kent. (Bad luck?
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A unique archaeological find - the ruins of a town and monastery complex dating from the period before the fifth century, has been found near the town of Kakheti in Kvareli region of Georgia.
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