Archäologie

Foundation of a fortress from the period of the prophet Jonah exposed in an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority .

Archaeologists have dug up thousands of pieces of history along the route of a planned train trench near the historic San Gabriel Mission.

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Irving Finkel of the British Museum in London, who has a doctorate in Assyriology and is considered the world's leading expert in cuneiform writing, will be speaking Monday at 7 p.m. in the great room of Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange, Newburgh on "New Life on Noah's Ark: An Astonishing Archaeological Discovery." CITY OF NEWBURGH - The design of the ... (more)

Time Team report We are pleased to announce that the post-excavation reports for Series 18 (first broadcast in 2011) are now available to read online or download via our Time Team Reports page. This year, since Channel 4 have reorganised their Time Team website, we have also linked to the episode pages on the Channel 4 website. There it is possible to view the episodes themselves. Just click the "Watch now on 4oD" link underneath the site summary.

Wessex Archaeology are responsible for making sure that all Time Team’s trenches are properly recorded, using standard techniques, and that a report is compiled at the end of the dig, to present the results. We work closely with the people carrying out the site survey, the geophysical survey and the landscape survey, all of whose results are incorporated in our reports.

You can also follow the latest news and behind-the-scenes work from Time Team on the Time Team Digital website.

Visit our Time Team Reports page to find out more.

Credits: Science Museum

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