Archaeology

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  Mammoth field found at Serbia coal mine 'great find for Ice Age knowledge'

  20 Jun 2012: Archaeologists say bones of five woolly mammoths at Kostolac coal pit may reveal more about Balkans several millennia ago

• Rock of ages: Australia's oldest artwork found

  18 Jun 2012: Archaeologist discovers Aboriginal rock art made 28,000 years ago in Northern Territory cave

• China's mighty terracotta army gains 100 soldiers

  11 Jun 2012: New terracotta troops unearthed, bringing total number of clay warriors found at Xi'an mausoleum to more than 8,000

• Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones

  10 Jun 2012:

  Briton says Spanish researchers are out by 200,000 years and have even got the wrong species

• Does the rediscovery of Shakespeare's Curtain theatre matter? Absolutely

  7 Jun 2012: Maev Kennedy: From scale to snacks, dress to drinks, the remains of the Shoreditch playhouse promise to reveal much about the environment that shaped Shakespeare's early work

• WikiLoot aims to use crowdsourcing to track down stolen ancient artefacts

  6 Jun 2012: Man behind WikiLoot hopes crowdsourcing experiment will help to find some of the world's oldest and most valuable treasures

• The extraordinary 2,000-year-old computer that you've never heard of

  6 Jun 2012: The Antikythera mechanism was designed to predict movements of the sun, moon and planets. Why isn't it better known?

• Shakespeare's Curtain theatre unearthed in east London

  6 Jun 2012:

  Theatre where Romeo and Juliet was first performed is rediscovered in Shoreditch centuries after it was dismantled

• Shipwrecks shed new light on Roman-era navigation

  29 May 2012: Wrecks found in deep waters off Greece's coast disprove the theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes

• Babylon's undiscovered treasures threatened by new oil pipeline

  29 May 2012: Unesco expresses "concern" after Iraqi oil ministry digs 1,500-metre tunnel under archaeological site

• Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display

  23 May 2012: Sarcophagus containing bones of Roman woman and rodents that chewed her ankle go on show at Cambridge museum

• Stone carvers defy Taliban to return to the Bamiyan valley

  16 May 2012:

  Afghan students learn the centuries-old skills that carved out the giant buddhas blown up by extremists

• How stone age man invented the art of raving

  13 May 2012: New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain

• In praise of … The Antikythera clock

  10 May 2012: Editorial: The secrets of the world's oldest computer have been unlocked by X-ray imaging

• Mayan calendar: excavation reveals mural of ancient calculations – interactive

  Interactive, 10 May 2012:

  Archaeologists have uncovered paintings of figures and a mural depicting calculations relating to the ancient Mayan calendar

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