This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldArchaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiensLast modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 16.04 EDTWhen , Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they exchanged ideas that led to a surge in creativity, according to a leading academic.Tom Higham, a professor of archaeological science at the , argues that their exchange explains “a proliferation of...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldArchaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiensLast modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 16.04 EDTWhen , Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they exchanged ideas that led to a surge in creativity, according to a leading academic.Tom Higham, a professor of archaeological science at the , argues that their exchange explains “a proliferation of...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldFind backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 05.59 ESTAn ancient myth about , first recorded 900 years ago, tells of the wizard Merlin leading men to Ireland to capture a magical stone circle called the Giants’ Dance and rebuilding it in England as a memorial to the dead.Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account had been dismissed, partly because he was wrong on other historical facts, although the bluestones of the monument came from a...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldFind backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 05.59 ESTAn ancient myth about , first recorded 900 years ago, tells of the wizard Merlin leading men to Ireland to capture a magical stone circle called the Giants’ Dance and rebuilding it in England as a memorial to the dead.Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account had been dismissed, partly because he was wrong on other historical facts, although the bluestones of the monument came from a...WW…

Churches and mosques in Ethiopia are being attacked and their sacred treasures looted in a catastrophic conflict in the northern Tigray region that is causing destruction, loss of life and a surge of refugees to Sudan, according to international experts.They are warning of historical vandalism and "cultural cleansing", fearing that religious sites have not been exempt from shelling and that a nation is being robbed of its ancient religious heritage, to the distress of Ethiopians of all faiths.There are reports of Christian manuscripts being stolen from churches and monasteries, and burned -...…Churches and mosques in Ethiopia are being attacked and their sacred treasures looted in a catastrophic conflict in the northern Tigray region that is causing destruction, loss of life and a surge of refugees to Sudan, according to international experts.They are warning of historical vandalism and "cultural cleansing", fearing that religious sites have not been exempt from shelling and that a nation is being robbed of its ancient religious heritage, to the distress of Ethiopians of all faiths.There are reports of Christian manuscripts being stolen from churches and monasteries, and burned -...WW…

Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years agoLast modified on Tue 1 Dec 2020 06.40 ESTOne of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest.Hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in .Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a...…Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years agoLast modified on Tue 1 Dec 2020 06.40 ESTOne of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest.Hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in .Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a...WW…

Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years agoSun 29 Nov 2020 05.00 ESTOne of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest.Hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in .Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of...…Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years agoSun 29 Nov 2020 05.00 ESTOne of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest.Hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in .Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldArchives discovery shows the calculated nature of the execution and reinforces the image of the king as a ‘pathological monster’Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 12.25 EDTIt is a Tudor warrant book, one of many in the National Archives, filled with bureaucratic minutiae relating to 16th-century crimes. But this one has an extraordinary passage, overlooked until now, which bears instructions from Henry VIII explaining precisely how he wanted his second wife, Anne Boleyn, to be executed.In this document, the king...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldArchives discovery shows the calculated nature of the execution and reinforces the image of the king as a ‘pathological monster’Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 12.25 EDTIt is a Tudor warrant book, one of many in the National Archives, filled with bureaucratic minutiae relating to 16th-century crimes. But this one has an extraordinary passage, overlooked until now, which bears instructions from Henry VIII explaining precisely how he wanted his second wife, Anne Boleyn, to be executed.In this document, the king...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldArchaelogists say Sumerian plaque dating from around 2400BC may have been lootedLast modified on Sun 27 Sep 2020 16.04 EDTAn ancient sculpture is to be returned to after it was secretly smuggled out of the country and offered for sale in the UK – only to be seized by the Metropolitan police.The previously unknown Sumerian temple plaque, dating from about 2400BC, is being repatriated with the help of the , which first tipped off the police after spotting its planned sale in 2019.“We’re used to coming across tablets,...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldArchaelogists say Sumerian plaque dating from around 2400BC may have been lootedLast modified on Sun 27 Sep 2020 16.04 EDTAn ancient sculpture is to be returned to after it was secretly smuggled out of the country and offered for sale in the UK – only to be seized by the Metropolitan police.The previously unknown Sumerian temple plaque, dating from about 2400BC, is being repatriated with the help of the , which first tipped off the police after spotting its planned sale in 2019.“We’re used to coming across tablets,...WW…

This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldAardman’s ‘augmented reality adventure’ on a phone app will let fans interact with lifesize characters in their own homesLast modified on Sun 28 Jun 2020 04.40 EDTBritish stars Miriam Margolyes and Jim Carter are joining for an extraordinary adventure in which the audience can conjure up the much-loved inventor and his faithful hound as avatars directly in front of them, wherever they happen to be. The new story from Productions, titled The Big Fix Up, is described as a story-driven augmented reality adventure, rather...…This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldAardman’s ‘augmented reality adventure’ on a phone app will let fans interact with lifesize characters in their own homesLast modified on Sun 28 Jun 2020 04.40 EDTBritish stars Miriam Margolyes and Jim Carter are joining for an extraordinary adventure in which the audience can conjure up the much-loved inventor and his faithful hound as avatars directly in front of them, wherever they happen to be. The new story from Productions, titled The Big Fix Up, is described as a story-driven augmented reality adventure, rather...WW…

This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldExclusive: prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologistsLast modified on Mon 22 Jun 2020 06.25 EDTA circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of , to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle...…This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldExclusive: prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologistsLast modified on Mon 22 Jun 2020 06.25 EDTA circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of , to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle...WW…

Excavations reveal that rubbish left outside the city walls wasn’t just dumped. It was being collected, sorted and resoldLast modified on Sun 26 Apr 2020 13.20 EDTResearchers at Pompeii, the city buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, have found that huge mounds of refuse apparently dumped outside the city walls were in fact “staging grounds for cycles of use and reuse”.Professor Allison Emmerson, an American academic who is part of a large team working at Pompeii, said rubbish was piled up along almost the entire external wall on the city’s northern...…Excavations reveal that rubbish left outside the city walls wasn’t just dumped. It was being collected, sorted and resoldLast modified on Sun 26 Apr 2020 13.20 EDTResearchers at Pompeii, the city buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, have found that huge mounds of refuse apparently dumped outside the city walls were in fact “staging grounds for cycles of use and reuse”.Professor Allison Emmerson, an American academic who is part of a large team working at Pompeii, said rubbish was piled up along almost the entire external wall on the city’s northern...WW…