A piece of well-preserved oak found close to the “Borgring” Viking fortress has provided a precise date for its earliest possible construction.

Antwerpen en Brussel zijn mogelijk in één klap één tot twee eeuwen ouder geworden. Microscopisch onderzoek naar de zwarte laag van de steden heeft in ieder geval aangetoond dat Antwerpen al menselijke activiteit kende voor het jaar 900. In Brussel werden sporen van landbouw en veeteelt gevonden die…

Rome wasn't born big. Back before it blossomed into an empire that sprawled across 2.2 million square miles (5.7 million square kilometers), twice the size of modern-day Argentina, Rome was an up-and-coming force threatened by a formidable city-state: Carthage.

When archaeologists uncovered four ancient ring-shaped fortresses in Denmark in the 1930s, the find profoundly changed the way they thought about the Vikings that built them. Rather than mindless marauders, Vikings in the Middle Ages must have been a complex, technologically advanced people to build…

Radio broadcast on the BBC World Service on a coin find, co-authored by Assistant Professor Thomas Birch. Starts at 18:30.

An earthquake-toppled house in the ancient city of Jerash is providing archaeologists with clues on how artisans constructed mosaics during the eighth century.

Article by Live Science. 15 August 2017.

JERASH, JORDAN—Live Science reports that archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an extravagant early Islamic period house in the city of Jerash.

When did Rome become an empire? Its coins hold a clue. Rome controlled only territory in Italy until 209 B.C.E., when it gained command over the Iberian Peninsula—which includes Spain and Portugal—during the Second Punic War against Carthage.

In 215BC the Roman republic was on the cusp of becoming a footnote in the pages of history. Hannibal and his Carthaginians were rampaging around Italy after trouncing its forces at the battles of Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae. Its allies were deserting en masse. Many of its generals were dead.