Archaeologists Find Something Fishy On Board the Mary Rose

Archaeologists find that the Tudor warship was stuffed with dried fish and clues to how the growth of the navy drove a globalised fishing trade, and vice versa. Here at DigVentures, we’ve got a…

Archaeologists find another enormous monument UNDERNEATH superhenge

It’s 1,640 feet in diameter, surrounded by a 54ft wide ditch and a 3ft high bank… and it’s been hiding a secret for thousands of years: a row of 90 massive standing stones. Just…

Site Diary: Who’d Win a Fight Between a Hippo and a Wolf?

That’s the kind of question you ask when you’re a small kid with a big imagination. Except this time, I’m not asking for fun. Imagine a place where African game and temperate woodland species…

New Evidence that Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds Collided Over 3,000 Years Ago

  Archaeologists have found new evidence that Mediterranean people reached the Atlantic coast over 3,000 years ago…and you can get involved! High up in the mountains of Galicia, north-west Spain, lies Costa dos Castros,…

Archaeologists Unearth a 7,000 Year Old Massacre

The discovery of a mass grave in Germany shows that 7,000 years ago, attackers killed 26 victims, including children, systematically breaking their shins before dumping them in a pit. So were early Neolithic farmers…

10 Things You Never Expected to See an Archaeologist Doing with their Tools

What happens when it’s time to down tools? Well, we like to pick them up again, albeit for entirely different purposes… Yes, digging is plenty of fun, but what happens after hours? When you’re…

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 13

It’s the last day of the dig, but there’s one final surprise in store… is the archaeology really over yet?

Site Diary: The Lesser-Spotted Archaeologist

It’s a heady mix of medieval intrigue and wartime cunning as DigVentures heads right into the heart of a world-famous bird sanctuary on a VERY special mission. Anyone who’s ever seen BBC Springwatch will…

Site Diary: Archaeology in the air!

If you get vertigo, you’d better look away now! DigVentures is taking to the skies over Leiston Abbey for an aerial photoshoot and the view from up here is AMAZING. Exhilarating. Thrilling. Captivating. Incredibly…

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Leiston – Season 3 – Day 7

The Venturers investigate the three buildings they’ve just discovered, plus there’s one more mystery to solve… where’s Raksha?

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 6

 Missing medieval buildings are like buses. You dig for one for ages and then three come along at once!

Oh. My. Geophysics!

This is what happens when you push past a crowdfunding goal for archaeology. Last night was a magical night here at DigVentures and we’re still recovering from the incredible response to our matchfunding announcement….

This Ancient Egyptian Process Easily Purifies Dirty Water

According to UNICEF, 783 million people don’t have access to clean, safe (or, as they say ‘improved’) drinking water, which the World Health Organisation estimates leads to around 1.6 million deaths from diarrheal and…

What can rabbits tell us about Neanderthal extinction?

There are many theories about why Neanderthals went extinct 30,000 years ago, but I have to admit, ‘rabbits’ wasn’t one I’d really considered, other than the possibility that the cave-dwelling ancestor of the Rabbit…

My Life In Objects: Nikolaos Maniatis, Archaeologist

Nikolaos is an archaeologist and conservator who has worked in labs, studying and preserving ancient artefacts around the world. Now, he’s using 3D printers with museofabber to restore and share some of the world’s…

Behind the Headlines: ‘Sex-crazed’ nuns of Littlemore Priory

This salacious headline is not just sexist, but the reporting that goes with it covers up a story that’s actually way more interesting “Gah!” That was how I first articulated my enraged reaction to…

The First Stone Tools Weren’t Made By Humans

The world’s newest oldest stone tool was made 700,000 years before the Homo genus emerged Much as we love field archaeology, trowels and brushes are no longer the only essential pieces in the modern…

My Life in Objects: Karl Harrison, Forensic Archaeologist

Karl Harrison is a forensic archaeologist. He’s trained to find, excavate and recover human remains under the most challenging and often harrowing of circumstances. In this DigVentures mashup of Desert Island Discs and A…

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