Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Is Discovered Inside the Coffin of a Saint After having been shut up inside a hermit monk’s tomb for more than 400 years, the oldest preserved book in Europe was found. The exhibition will be portrayed in the British Library, featuring prize manuscripts like the Lindisfarne Gospels and Beowulf. The show is …

Anglo-Saxon Abbey where Lusty King Edgar was Crowned, Found! The ruins of two stone buildings found during restoration work at Bath Abbey by WesSєx Archeology specialist, it was discovered during renovation work at Bath Abbey, to the 8th – 10th century. It is probably part of the Anglo-Saxon monastery where King Edgar was crowned as the first King …

Archaeologists discover a crude ancient weapon that could kill a man with a single blow When many months ago, in England, an old wooden club was yanked from its watery grave in the River Thames in England, archaeologists didn’t quite know what to make of it. The blunt tool, which is supposed to happen between …

Fossil hunter finds 185M-year-old ‘golden snitch’ with ancient sea creature inside Fossils shaped like Quidditchball are only a few of the many discoveries made by amateur archeologist Aaron Smith. On the cliffs of Whitby, Yorkshire, the medical student found various fossil items from the Jurᴀssic period. Perhaps the most spectacular is a 185 million-year-old fossil …

Archaeologists re-excavate hidden Roman bath after 130 years The bath was first discovered and excavated 130 years ago, but was then quickly back-filled and poorly recorded. Measuring 4 metres x 5 metres, it is one of eight baths known at the Roman Baths site and is beneath York Street next to the main suite of …

Medieval Priest’s Remains Unearthed in England Over 50 burials unearthed by archaeologists in the Lincoln Cathedral included a remarkable medieval priest burial. A skeleton is believed to be that of a medieval priest found, who had been buried in the area that is now the building’s West Parvis. The priest had been carefully buried with a pewter chalice …

Officials Recover Limestone Sculpture Looted from Afghanistan LONDON, ENGLAND—BBC reports that a sculpture stolen from the National Museum of Afghanistan some 30 years ago has been identified at a London auction house and will go on display at the British Museum before it is returned to Kabul. Members of the Art Loss Register spotted the …

Secrets of an astonishingly well-preserved 2,600-year-old human brain Experts who researched an iron-age skull brain of 2,600 years of old have found evidence to explain why it survived until modern times in a mud pit. The answers could shed light on the treatment of brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. The brain, that came from a …

Remains of 50 skeletons from the dawn of Britain’s Roman occupation 2,000 years ago unearthed by construction workers building a new school in Somerset Building workers in the UK have unearthed a large  Roman-era cemetery. The burials are of an unusual type, showing spectacular changes in the funerary customs of locals in the 1st century AD. …