Archaeology
A beginner’s guide to historical investigation
Informative websites to aid any historical investigation, ranging from the most basic aspects of our past – DNA and blood groups – to specific searches in archives and other repositories.
Time
Team
Here you can unearth the archaeology that brings this award-winning series to
life.
- Ancient Surgery
Surgery is not a modern phenomenon but has its roots in the ancient world. Developments in India, Egypt, Greece and Rome many centuries ago meant that operations that are common now were also performed then. - Ancient Technology: A beginner's guide
The best websites and books dealing with ancient technology – from chariots to cranes, submarines to incendiary devices, and much more. - The Archaeology of Black Britain
Archaeological evidence of an early black presence in Britain in a Roman military garrison. - Archaeology Is Rubbish
An extract from the book by Time Team's Tony Robinson and Professor Mick Aston shows how garden waste can reveal the history of Britain. - Athens: The truth about democracy
Examination of how the democratic Greeks were also slave owners and empire builders. Includes the article 'Who killed Socrates?' - A beginner’s guide to historical investigation
Informative websites to aid any historical investigation, ranging from the most basic aspects of our past – DNA and blood groups – to specific searches in archives and other repositories. - Bodies
of Evidence
Investigation of forensic archaeology and the scientific methods of unravelling the mysteries of the past. Plus more than two dozen case studies, including mummies, left-handedness and Lenin's body. - Bones of Contention
A concise history of human evolution, including the latest discovery: 'Millennium Man'. - The Celts
Who were the Celts – a people with a distinctive language and culture whom the Romans gradually pushed to the western fringe of Europe, or something more complicated and mysterious? - Curse of the Ice Mummy
In 1991, the oldest naturally preserved mummy was discovered frozen in the Alps. When the seventh person linked to it died, rumours of a curse began to circulate. - Extreme
Archaeology
Archaeology is taken to the edge as a team of experts tackles sites across the country that are beyond the reach of normal investigations. This website has lots of good information on the cutting-edge technology now available to archaeologists. - The First Emperor
The story of the ruler who unified China in the 3rd century BC, built the Great Wall and left us the Terracotta Army in his necropolis. - Great Excavations: John Rohmer's history of archaeology
The story of the fascinating and often eccentric science of archaeology, from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present, told by the eminent maverick archaeologist. - Journeys through Time
Visit the sites where you can see evidence of how clever our Stone Age ancestors were. - King Midas' Feast
An exploration of the legend of King Midas (likely to have been the 8th-century BC Phrygian king Mita), plus the ingredients and cooking methods that might have been used in the real king's funeral feast. - Mystery
of the Missing U-Boat
In 1991, 60 miles off the New Jersey coast, a team of American divers discovered the wreck of a German U-boat lost in 1945. The website tells the story of that discovery and gives details of submarines and the Battle of the Atlantic, including a timeline. - Neanderthal
What is known about these ancient beings and how they might have lived. - Pagans
Delve deep into the pagan past, find out whether the old religions were obsessed with sex, learn about modern followers of the faith, and discover how many traces of ancient paganism remain in 21st-century culture. - Secrets
of the Incas
The research by Dr William Sullivan into the sophisticated astronomical knowledge of the Incas and how they encrypted this in their myths. The orthodox view of why the Incas’ empire collapsed is also given, and there are pointers to finding out more. - The Silk Route
From traders in salt and lapis lazuli 6,000 years ago to the adventurer Marco Polo in the 13th century, merchants and others journeyed to and from China and the Middle East on ancient highways collectively known as the ‘Silk Route’. - Time Team Big Dig
The results of the thousands of archaeological test pits dug in June 2003 all over Britain. - Time
Team’s Big Roman Dig
Find out what the team found during a week of excavations, plus lots of good info on life in Roman Britain. - Tutankhamun
Exhumed
The results of a CT scan carried out in 2005, which allowed scholars to carry out the most ambitious forensic investigation ever undertaken on the pharaoh's remains. - The Vikings
Flourishing from the 8th to the 11th century, these people of the north had a legendary reputation for destruction and gruesome violence. However, the real Vikings were a bit different. - Wreck Detectives
The how, why and where of wreck diving, from taking your first few breaths of bottled air to understanding archaeological data.
