FOUND: Caraca, An Ancient Roman City Described By Ptolemy

For decades, people have argued about the exact location of Caraca. Now, it seems that archaeologists have finally found it. Using drones and ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists have pinpointed their search and revealed the perfectly…

FOUND: Beautiful Bone Harpoons From 13,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists have collected over 500 absolutely stunning bone harpoons, some of which are 13,000 years old and may have been used for hunting hippo. We often hear about the prehistoric people who hunted woolly…

FOUND: Children’s Footprints And Colourful Paintings From 3,000 Years Ago

Children leave little trace in the archaeological record, so the discovery of a set of children’s footprints from 3,000 years ago is a rare delight. On the eastern edge of the Nile Delta, archaeologists…

Gemstones From The 3,500 Year Old Jewellery Workshop Of A ‘Forgotten’ Civilisation

Archaeologists have discovered a jewellery workshop on an island that was once home to Dilmun, one of the oldest trading civilizations in the Middle East. We love it when fellow archaeologists discover something that…

Proof That Humans Arrived In North America 10,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

A fresh look at artefacts from Bluefish Caves, Canada, suggests that humans had already landed in North America at least 24,000 years ago. Until now, the earliest dated archaeological sites put the first settlement…

Guy Knits Jumpers Of Famous Places, Then Goes There And Wears Them

Archaeologists love a good woolly jumper, but this might just be the best one we’ve ever seen. As any archaeology fan will know, a good woolly jumper is a wardrobe staple. Perhaps most famously…

Where Did Neanderthals Go On Holiday?

It might sound like the start of a joke, but archaeologists believe that Neanderthals had a soft spot for Jersey Jersey is a popular holiday destination for tourists today, and it turns out that…

Our ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Bronze Age Discovery Is In The Guardian!

This summer, hundreds of crowdfunders helped us carry out an excavation of a Bronze Age burial site near Morecambe Bay. It was the first major scientific excavation in the region of such a site…

Did Medieval ‘Pirate Priests’ Exist In Suffolk?

Priests were often the subject of pirate raids, but did priests ever engage in piracy themselves? Over the last three years, DigVentures’ flagship crowdfunded excavation at Leiston Abbey has turned up all sorts of…

LOST: 2,000 Year Old Tower Discovered By Scotland’s First Female Archaeologist

In 1870, Christian Maclagan discovered a remarkable 2,000 year old tower in Stirling, Scotland, but it was ignored, left unexcavated and its location eventually forgotten, all because she was a woman. Archaeologists have launched…

Introducing… Ben Scar Cave!

This Anglo-Saxon Namestone Confirms We’re Hot On The Trail Of Lindisfarne’s First Monastery

Lindisfarne’s early Anglo-Saxon monastery is one of the most iconic sites in English history. Our crowdfunded excavation has finally found evidence of its location… In February, we launched a crowdfunding campaign to search for…

Check Out These Interactive 3D Models Of Anglo-Saxon Artefacts From Lindisfarne

We’ve just finished our crowdfunded excavation on Lindisfarne, where (with the help of our crowdfunders) we’ve been looking for the earliest Anglo-Saxon monastery on Lindisfarne. Founded in AD 635 by Kind Oswald, this is…

This 8000 Year Old Underwater Village Was Discovered By A Lobster

Bouldnor Cliff is now completely submerged below a shipping lane just off the Isle of Wight. DigVentures will be tracking the progress of Garry Momber and his team of underwater archaeologists as they dig…

Did Prehistoric People in Russia Drill Holes in Their Skulls Just for Show?

You’d think that most people would need a hole in their head like, well, a hole in the head, but new research suggests that prehistoric people in Russia carried out complex cranial surgery as…

Say What? Iron Age People Set Fire To Their Own Hillforts

Sounds crazy, but new research suggests that by setting fire to their walls, Iron Age communities were actually strengthening them! For years, archaeologists have been stumped by a strange feature present in numerous Iron…

Early Humans Were Fair Game for Ice Age Predators

Tooth marks found on the 500,000-year-old femur of an early hominin show that humans haven’t always been top of the food chain… In Ice Age North Africa, our prehistoric ancestors had a lot to…

Viking Denmark Might Have Embraced Christianity Much Earlier Than We Thought

This stunning gold crucifix is the earliest to be found in Denmark, potentially pushing back the date for when the Danes became Christian by almost half a century. When metal detecting enthusiast and amateur…