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Archaeology Close to Home: Discovering the Past in Everyday Places

A road crew breaks ground for a new construction project and uncovers an ancient cemetery. Workers renovating a city street discover a centuries-old road buried beneath the pavemen...

Unearthing history

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Finding the Past, by Gillian Polack

  I’m thinking about historical sources. Not just any historical sources, but ones that give us access to everyday lives. There are sources everywhere, but some sources are special...

Buried Time Capsule In Cave Reveals Previously Unknown Ancient Population Linked To North America

Jan Bartek -  AncientPages.com -  In a remote part of the world, scientists explored a cave high in the mountains. Long ago, this area was a key crossroads for ancient trade. Even...

The secret hidden in these ancient manuscripts isn’t written in ink

Researchers can now recover DNA from centuries-old parchment without damaging the manuscripts, turning historic documents into unexpected genetic time capsules. The hidden clues co...

Thousands of Years of Human History Unearthed in the Trent Valley

The exhibition reveals how prehistoric communities lived, adapted, and left traces across the Trent Valley. Beneath the Trent Valley, artifacts, pollen, animal remains, and layers...

An Archaeologist’s Cell Phone Light Uncovers a Hidden Medieval Wall Beneath Chester Crown Court

Learn how part of a nearly 800-year-old medieval castle thought to have been destroyed was found beneath Chester Crown Court.

Archaeologist Turns Over a Stone and Finds a Roman Guardian Hidden Near Hadrian’s Wall for 1,600 Years

Learn how a third-generation archaeologist uncovered a rare Roman guardian beneath a barrack near Hadrian’s Wall after more than 1,600 years.

Workers restoring a medieval English house found 800 years of hidden history, including...

A conservation project at Dunstable's Priory House has revealed eight centuries of hidden history. Nationally important wall paintings and sealed medieval doorways were discovered...

Scientists uncover lost world beneath Egypt's desert that rewrites its ancient past

Scientists uncover lost world beneath Egypt's desert that rewrites its ancient past

Hot weather reveals hidden history across the South

The hot summer reveals parch marks from centuries old structures at sites including Blenheim Palace.

The past is denser than the history we tell

The past is not history, though history is about the past. The past is everything that happened and is now beyond our reach. History is what we construct from the traces left behin...

Byzantine Underground Labyrinth Unearthed: Major Previously Unknown Subterranean Complex Confirms Ancient Legends

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have uncovered large, previously unknown subterranean structures built by skilled Eastern Roman Empire craftsmen. Experts are now cle...

‘Healing through restoration’: How Israel’s hidden dig site builds community out of archaeology

“Our job is to tell the story of these people, because we are here and we can learn a lot from them," Dagan told The Jerusalem Post.

Family holiday unearths 'mind-blowing' ancient discovery

Family holiday unearths 'mind-blowing' ancient discovery

Family holiday unearths 'mind-blowing' ancient discovery

Family holiday unearths 'mind-blowing' ancient discovery

Someone May Have Buried This Mysterious Pot on Purpose 400 Years Ago — but No One Knows Why

Learn how an intact pot and a second unfamiliar vessel add new details about food, trade, and migration in a Potano village in Florida.

Decoding the History Recorded in Lunar Soil

Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzA model that captures how crater-forming impacts redistribute lunar dirt will help researchers read the cosmic timeline found in samples returned from th...

Historians Examine Secret Archive And Uncover A New Untold Story Of The Illuminati Order

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Researchers have examined a large collection of Illuminati Order documents, uncovering information that challenges the established history of the s...

Hidden Manuscripts Unearth Guernsey’s Forgotten Literary Legacy

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -With support from Kent manuscript expert Dr David Rundle, seventeen medieval manuscript fragments have been identified in Guernsey. These discoveri...

Threading history’s strands together

Archaeologists Discover a Forgotten 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb – Now They’re Racing To Save It

A newly discovered Ramesside tomb near Luxor is revealing details about ancient Egyptian burial practices while facing growing danger from flash flooding. Standing at the entrance...

Underwater Cave Bones Reveal Hidden Clues About Ancient Fossils

Distinct marks on cave bones can reveal how underwater fossil deposits formed and changed over time. Deep inside flooded caves, animal bones can remain remarkably intact for decade...

Shropshire's mystery Iron Age fort dug up after 40 years, its secrets still unclear

In Shropshire, archaeologists are unearthing the mysteries of Wall Camp, a unique Iron Age fort. Over the course of ten years, the project will delve into the fort’s defensive stru...