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Alexander the Great – Death by Wine?

He wasn’t called ‘Great’ for nothing. With a brief resume that stretches to the founding of over 70 cities and an empire that stretched across 3 continents and covered around 2 million square miles,…
What do YOU have in common with the Jamaican bobsled team?

What do YOU have in common with the Jamaican bobsled team?

#coolrunnings! Today I’m thinking about the Jamaican Bobsled team. I can well remember when they first left the perpetual summer of Jamaica to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics. The world sat back in…

Friday Five… Creepy Archaeological Discoveries

What’s the best thing you’ve ever found? It’s a common question asked of archaeologists and one that more often than not leaves disappointment dashed across the face of the asker.  The Lost Gold of…

Francis Pryor asks: How are Sheep Relevant to Life – and Archaeology?

DigVentures is pleased as punch to have an original blog to share with our readers from the one, the only, the mighty Francis Pryor. As an accomplished archaeologist, author, personality and general man-about-town, we’re…
What did World War One really do for women?

What did World War One really do for women?

What did World War One really do for women? In this week’s #WWWednesday post, we take a look at a great BBC online resource that explores the role of women in WWI. And it’s…

A Prehistoric Pain in the… Tooth

Having always assumed those traumatic dentist visits growing up were caused by nothing more than your own penchant for toffee and modern human’s destructive obsession with a sugary diet, you may actually be surprised…
Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers

Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers

Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers The glaciers of the Italian Alps are slowly melting to reveal horrors from the Great War, preserved for nearly a century A recent article…

DigVentures is OFFICIALLY one of the best cultural experiences in Europe!

Who made Lonely Planet’s 2014 List of the 52 Best Weekends Away? DigVentures, of course! That’s right folks, the good people at travel experts Lonely Planet have discovered our Dirty Weekends and have declared…

Welcome 2014!

Welcome 2014! This New Year’s message has grown from a conversation at DV HQ between Brendon, Lisa and Raksha one afternoon after our dig at Leiston Abbey in July. We always experience a period…

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Friday Five… Christmas Presents for Archaeologists

Ahh… Christmas. A time for family, trimming the tree and eating so much you feel sick… and who could forget the magical Christmas tradition of manically running round fighting the last minute hordes to…
Friday Five… Archaeological Hoaxes

Friday Five… Archaeological Hoaxes

If you’ve ever thought of creating some elaborate archaeological hoax to make your millions and set yourself up for an early retirement think again. The forgery detectives will get you in the end… 1….

Archaeologists discover world’s oldest Buddha

Looking good for his 2,500 years with not a wrinkle in sight, Buddha may be older than we first realised. An archaeological team led by Robin Coningham from Durham University have discovered the world’s…

Friday Five… The Rise of the ‘Selfie’

selfie: Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfi/ (also selfy) noun (plural selfies): informal a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website:“occasional selfies are…

Old Dogs, New Tricks – The Origins of Man’s Best Friend

It’s a well-known fact that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks – but what about the other way round – could an old dog teach us new tricks? Robert Wayne, an evolutionary…

The evolution of… Social Media

Love it or hate it, social media dominates contemporary society like no other format. With last week’s Twitter floatation making the company worth $30 billion, six times the value of the 500 year old…

DV’s obligatory macabre archaeological facts Halloween post!

For many parents, the meaning of Halloween lies in the annual rituals of selecting expensive and humiliating costumes, consoling crying children when pumpkins sell out in the supermarket, and spending the evening with the…

Great Great Great Great (x 250) Grandad

With a recent surge of interest in genealogy, family trees have been sprouting up left, right and centre. In this ‘who do you think you are’ era, there can be few projects more satisfying…

A Woman’s Place is in the Cave

As Virginia Woolf once wrote “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” though recent analysis of Upper Palaeolithic cave art suggest that she may not be quite right. New studies of prehistoric handprint…

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