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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…

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…

Researchers Will Be Able to Read Past Environments from Ancient DNA

If it all sounds a bit like environmental determinism gone mad, think again. Researchers can now read markers left on ancient DNA by climate, famine and disease in the long-distant past. For the first…

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…

We’re 3D Printing Artefacts Straight From the Trench!

Get your hands on some of the freshest finds around. Remember that scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Mike (the kid who’s obsessed with chocolate and TV) sticks his hand into a…

This New Graphene Scanner Will Give Archaeologists Something Even Better Than X-Ray Vision

Soon, archaeologists will be able to see through layers of paint and dirt to explore artworks in more detail than ever before, without even touching them. But that’s not the only reason that this…

This Portable Carbon-Dating Device Is Going To Revolutionise Field Archaeology

The ability to date whatever you like, wherever you like, is the archaeologist’s dream. And it looks like a new carbon-dating technique is about to help make that dream come true. It seems that…
RCAHMW Digital Pasts

10 Things We Learnt From Digital Pasts 2015

From Oculus Rift to 3D printing, from generation ‘Z’ to Minecraft for history, the RCAHMW’s ‘Digital Pasts’ Conference is fast becoming the go-to destination for anyone pushing the digital envelope in archaeology – the…
Digging the Crowd

Digging the Crowd – The Future of Archaeological Research in the Collaborative Economy

Organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, DigVentures were invited to deliver a Keynote lecture at their Digital Pasts Conference in Swansea.  Here’s the text in full… *  …

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Leiston Abbey Photogrammetry

Photogrammetry for Archaeologists

Is there anything stinkier than the stinky smell of wet stinking permatrace? Otherwise known as drafting film, the strong, durable and waterproof qualities of ‘permatrace’ make it an absolutely essential piece of an archaeologist’s…

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