The Great London [02/01/17] 

  • Near East: 4,000 year old Egyptian model boat sails away as top selling lot at Bonhams Antiquities Sale

    A large wooden model boat from the Egyptian Middle Period 2123-1797 BC, sold for £161,000 at Bonhams Antiquities Sale in London yesterday. The boat had been estimated at £30,000-50,000.A wooden model boat from the Egyptian Middle Period 2123-1797 BC, sold for £161,000 [Credit: Bonhams]Boats were an integral part of Egyptian everyd…

  • UK: Replicas of Palmyra arch to go on show in London, NY

    Giant replicas of an ancient arch in the Syrian city of Palmyra attacked by Islamic State (IS) jihadists will go on show in London and New York next year, organisers said Monday.The archway of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra will be recreated in New York City and London [Credit: Sandra Auger/Reuters/Corbis]The full-size recreation of…

  • UK: Excavation of Roman Cemetery nominated for British archaeology award

    For the second year running a project led by University of Leicester archaeologists has been nominated in the Current Archaeology Awards, this year in the category >'Rescue Project of the Year'.An archaeologist excavates one of the skeletons in the Roman cemetery at Western Road [Credit: University of Leicester]The project, ‘Burie…

  • Northern Europe: The coldest decade of the millennium?

    While searching through historical archives to find out more about the 15th-century climate of what is now Belgium, northern France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Chantal Camenisch noticed something odd. "I realised that there was something extraordinary going on regarding the climate during the 1430s," says the historian from …

  • UK: Mummification was common in Bronze Age Britain

    Ancient Britons may have intentionally mummified some of their dead during the Bronze Age, according to archaeologists at the University of Sheffield.Bronze Age skeleton from Neat's Court excavation, on Isle of Sheppey, Kent [Credit: Geoff Morley]The study, published in the Antiquity Journal, is the first to provide indications th…

  • Italy: Fossil find reveals just how big carnivorous dinosaur may have grown

    An unidentified fossilised bone in a museum has revealed the size of a fearsome abelisaur and may have solved a hundred-year old puzzle.Artist impression of abelisaur [Credit: Imperial College London]Alessandro Chiarenza, a PhD student from Imperial College London, last year stumbled across a fossilised femur bone, left forgotten …