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Researchers have solved the riddle of how one of Africa’s greatest civilisations survived a catastrophic drought which wiped out other famous dynasties.

Archaeologists unearth new information on origins of Maya civilization

The remains of 2 First World War soldiers have finally been laid to rest nearly 100 years after they were killed in action.

The Government of Margaret Thatcher played a crucial, if unwitting, role in the development of modern UK Archaeology.

In January 2013 the World's media watched as a crack team of historians, archaeologists and geophysicists assembled by global game company Wargaming.net, set out to solve the mystery of the lost squadron of Spitfires which, according to aviation...

For the first time, researchers from the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich together with colleagues abroad have been able to provide evidence of periodontitis, tooth decay and accident-related dental damage in the ice...

UC faculty have been involved in multiple research projects concerning ancient Maya culture for more than a decade.

The Italian farmer resolutely tilling his soil may have no idea he's standing atop the remains of an ancient villa.

But seated at his desk at Duke University, Maurizio Forte knows.

The Djehuty Project, led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered on the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga in Luxor (ancient Thebes), the burials of four personages belonging to the elite of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, who...

Discoveries include writing tablets, thousands of pieces of pottery and a large collection of phallus-shaped luck charms

Richard III - University of Leicester
The University of Leicester today confirms (Monday, Feb 4) that it has discovered the remains of King Richard III.
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Tlaloc, the god of rain and water: National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City - Teotihuacán hall Georgia State University’s Christopher Morehart and his wife walked about an excavation area in winter 2007 at Lake...

University of Leicester geneticist Dr Turi King found a match between DNA from the skeleton and two direct descendents of Richard III on the female line.

Dig team to investigate 600-year old stone coffin and to learn more about Church that housed a King.

Archaeologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the biggest groups of Iron Age metal artefacts to be found in the region- in addition to finding dice and gaming pieces.

A Chinook helicopter airlifted one of the RAF's historic aircraft to a new jet museum

Richard III may have gone through very painful treatments for his spinal deformity, according to University of Leicester researcher

The most supported traditional hypothesis points out that the earliest well-established human culture in the North American continent were the Clovis, a population of hunters who arrived about 13,000 years before present from North-East Asia...

The Roman Empires was one of the largest, longest lasting and most important states in human history.

The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost.

A team of archaeologists from the University of Southampton have used the latest in digital imaging technology to record and analyse carvings on the Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananai’a.

The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according to an international team of researchers.

Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study led by the University of York which reports the earliest direct evidence for the use of ceramic vessels.

Photos courtesy of Andrew Nelson -  A mummified domestic cat, goes in for a CT scan at the London Health Sciences Centre.