4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Modern-day Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people have Pictish ancestry; the new study has been published in PLOS Genetics
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine
Germany was the principle source of brass for production of pre-18th Century manillas and, ultimately, the Benin Bronzes
Descriptions and phrases used in the Revelation of John are similar in terminology to those appearing on curse tablets produced in antiquity and the associated sorcery rituals
New insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought
Ancient skeletons reveal the history of worm parasites in Britain; a new study published on PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
The Justinianic Plague began in 541 in the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled at the time by the Emperor Justinian I, and recurrent outbreaks ravaged Europe and the Mediterranean basin for approximately 200 years
A new study focusses on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 poem “Fears in Solitude”, written in 1798 “during the alarm of invasion”
