Friday Five

The best, worst, weirdest and most wonderful archaeology finds and features in bite-size chunks

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…

Friday Five… Faces of Father Christmas

Spoiler alert – look away now kids – the grown-ups are talking!!! With eye-watering prescience (see number five on last week’s ‘Christmas Presents for Archaeologists’) this weeks Friday Five tackles the most critical, pressing…

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… Fearless Female Pirates

Hat… check. Sword… check. Parrot… check. Penchant for rum… check. Beard to twiddle while you plot your daring heist… Uh oh. Not to fear, your hopes of sailing the seven seas commandeering stolen ships…

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….

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…

Friday Five… Greek Monsters

It may surprise the Harry Potter generation, but Centaurs, Medusa, and many of the other fantastical beasts in modern storytelling weren’t dreamt up in Starbucks by a single mother nursing a latte with Voldemort written…

Friday Five…the Top 5 moustaches of all time!

The breaking dawn tomorrow morning will see the beginning of Movember 2013 (*cringe from the ladies*). It’s at this time of year men worldwide relish the excuse to let hairy caterpillars set up camp…

Friday Five… Mummies and Bog Bodies

We recently published a post about the Otzi the Iceman, a 5,300 year-old Italian some modern day relatives probably don’t want to be reunited with. Preserved by the arctic conditions of his homeland, he…

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