Archaeological Dig

A centuries-old mystery surrounding a poet buried in Notre Dame in Paris could be close to being solved thanks to archaeological digs at the world-famous cathedral, researchers said on Tuesday.

A bronze head of Emperor Septimius Severus on display at a Copenhagen museum has become a bone of contention between the Danish museum and Turkey, which claims it was looted during an archaeological dig in the 1960s and wants it back.

Tucked beside one of London's busiest railway stations, a small army of archaeologists dig through clay as they clear a burial site of 40,000 bodies to make way for a new train line.

Archaeologists from Britain's Staffordshire University have unearthed the site of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare's 'kitchen' at New Place, which was the bard's family home in Stratford-upon-Avon at the height of his career for almost two decades.

Tucked away in the tiny bylanes of Kerala's Kodungallur town, it's easy to miss one of India's biggest archaeological findings.

While the Archaeological Survey of India was digging out nothing but broken glass bangles and pieces of rusted iron during the excavation inside Raja Rao Ram Baksh Singh fort in Unnao, seer Shobhan Sarkar on Thursday claimed that gold would be found only if he was invited to the site.

After 12 days of digging, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has not found any trace of gold under the ruins of a 19th century fort in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.

With digging of gold in Unnao dominating the discourse in Uttar Pradesh, coins of Mughal era have been recovered from a field in Asmauli area of Sambhal.

The government today starts digging for treasure in a village in Uttar Pradesh. The excavation is triggered by a local sadhu or sage who says he dreamt that 1,000 tonnes of gold are buried under the ruins of a palace.

Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death - a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.

A British team preparing to dig for a rumoured hoard of World War II Spitfire planes in Myanmar said on Wednesday it would be one of the most fascinating discoveries in aviation archaeology if they were found.

A centuries-old mystery surrounding a poet buried in Notre Dame in Paris could be close to being solved thanks to archaeological digs at the world-famous cathedral, researchers said on Tuesday.

A bronze head of Emperor Septimius Severus on display at a Copenhagen museum has become a bone of contention between the Danish museum and Turkey, which claims it was looted during an archaeological dig in the 1960s and wants it back.

Tucked beside one of London's busiest railway stations, a small army of archaeologists dig through clay as they clear a burial site of 40,000 bodies to make way for a new train line.

Archaeologists from Britain's Staffordshire University have unearthed the site of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare's 'kitchen' at New Place, which was the bard's family home in Stratford-upon-Avon at the height of his career for almost two decades.

Tucked away in the tiny bylanes of Kerala's Kodungallur town, it's easy to miss one of India's biggest archaeological findings.

While the Archaeological Survey of India was digging out nothing but broken glass bangles and pieces of rusted iron during the excavation inside Raja Rao Ram Baksh Singh fort in Unnao, seer Shobhan Sarkar on Thursday claimed that gold would be found only if he was invited to the site.

After 12 days of digging, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has not found any trace of gold under the ruins of a 19th century fort in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.

With digging of gold in Unnao dominating the discourse in Uttar Pradesh, coins of Mughal era have been recovered from a field in Asmauli area of Sambhal.

The government today starts digging for treasure in a village in Uttar Pradesh. The excavation is triggered by a local sadhu or sage who says he dreamt that 1,000 tonnes of gold are buried under the ruins of a palace.

Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death - a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.

A British team preparing to dig for a rumoured hoard of World War II Spitfire planes in Myanmar said on Wednesday it would be one of the most fascinating discoveries in aviation archaeology if they were found.