Coffin For Sale, One Careful Owner…

Ancient Egyptian’s bought up-cycled coffins, new research reveals How long could the ancient Egyptians expect to rest in peace? According to new research led by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the answer is… not very long!…

This Is How Ancient Poo Could Help Solve One Of History’s Biggest Mysteries

The route taken across the Alps by Hannibal and his army in 218BC has been hotly debated for centuries, but now the potential discovery of a mass deposit of horse dung could be about…

A Space Archaeologist May Have Found New Evidence of Vikings in North America

Satellite images have lead archaeologists to excavate a site showing signs of Viking activity on the other side of the Atlantic Until the 1960s, stories told in the Vinland sagas about the Vikings landing…

FREE: Learn To Make 3D Models of Yorkshire’s Ancient Artefacts

STUDENTS! How To Sneak In A Bit Of Extra Fieldwork This April

As someone once famously said: if you want to be a good archaeologist, you have to get out of the library… This April, we can help you make it happen! A proper understanding of…

Recipe: How To Make Your Own Medieval Mead

We’re Heading to Marden Henge!

At DigVentures, we’re ready to announce another unbelievable archaeological adventure, and this time it’s Neolithic! Tonight on BBC 4, a brand new series of Digging for Britain begins. First up, it’s the team of…

Extraordinary Neolithic Flint Arrowhead Pieced Together After 4500 Years

Four and a half thousand years ago, halfway between Stonehenge and Avebury, an extraordinary flint arrowhead was snapped in two. Now, for the first time in nearly five millenia, the two pieces have been…

Explore Spain’s Celtic Connection And Help Dig An Iron Age Hillfort

A Spanish community is crowdfunding help to excavate an impressive Iron Age hillfort in Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of Spain. Archaeologists are inviting adventurous travellers to join a field school for a week…

DigVentures announces new Advisory Board

Sir Tony Robinson, David Gilbert and Carole Souter CBE join DigVentures advisory board DigVentures – the archaeological social enterprise – announces today, 1 March, a new advisory board to provide strategic consultancy and high-level…

Archaeologists Unearth the First Thing They Ever Dug Up

As archaeologists, we spend our time looking at things that happened a very long time ago. But not much feels like it was as long ago as when we first became archaeologists! Four years…

Is The Easter Island Warfare Theory Wrong?

A fresh look at Rapa Nui spearpoints is causing archaeologists to rethink what really led to the island’s societal collapse. First settled between AD700-1200, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was the site of a thriving…

Why Having Viking Ancestry Could Be Bad For Your Health

Archaeologists excavating Viking latrines have found that genes adapted to fight internal parasites could be harmful for their modern day descendants. Vikings have always had a pretty notorious reputation, but new research suggests that…

Powerful Women Found Buried at Stonehenge

Stonehenge was not a ‘man thing’; half those buried there were women. Today, Stonehenge means many things to many people; tourist destination, great feat of engineering, source of traffic jams, sacred space, or even…

Did the Vikings Really Navigate Using Crystal Sunstones?

Scientists are testing the theory that Vikings navigated using polarized light. We all know that ancient seafarers navigated using the position of the sun by day, and the position of the stars by night….

How King Tut Got His Beard Back

This Could Be the Earliest Evidence of Human Warfare Yet

The grisly discovery of 27 people who were killed 10,000 years ago provide the earliest known evidence of human warfare yet. How and when did human warfare emerge? That’s a question philosophers have been…

Ancient Medical Prosthetics Are Even More Impressive Than We Thought

Archaeologists have made two amazing medical discoveries: a 2,200 year old prosthetic leg from China, and the body of an Austrian man who’d had his foot successfully amputated and replaced with a prosthetic 1,500…