Prof Olaf Kaper, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, believes he may have solved one of the greatest mysteries in ancient history – what happened to the 50,000-man army of Persian King Cambyses II in the Egyptian desert around 524 BC.
The mystery surrounding the contents of a Viking pot has been solved after researchers carried out a CT scan on the ancient artefact.Archaeologists had been […]
The discovery was made when the department officials were evacuating some lab space to make way for a new radiocarbon dating facility. The heavy wooden […]
A charity fundraiser who recently took up metal detecting shrugged off his novice status to pull off a major archaeological discovery.Stephen Auker, 57, found dozens […]
