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News 10,000 Temple of Mithras discoveries draw comparisons with Pompeii in Roman LondonExperts from Museum of London Archaeology say thousands of "beautifully preserved" remains in London could transform our understanding of Roman Britain.10 April 2013 -
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News 1,000-Year-Old Viking Longship Could Be Buried Under Pub Car ParkExperts believe they have made one of the UK's most significant discoveries - a 1,000-year-old Viking longship buried under a pub car park in the Wirral.10 September 2007 -
News 1066 Battle of Fulford grounds to open to public as crowdfunding campaign begins in YorkshireA crowdfunding campaign has been launched to open the Viking side of the site of the Battle of Fulford in Yorkshire, marking the 950th anniversary of the 1066 conflicts with a range of activities later this year.22 May 2016 -
News 11,000 pints of beer: Museum launches appeal to save thousands of coins from political upheaval of 4th centuryThe Yorkshire Museum needs to raise £44,000 in four months to keep the largest hoard of its kind ever found in the north of England.25 July 2016 -
News 1200-Year-Old Anglo-Saxon Canoe Raised From The DepthsDiscovered by a fisherman in 1998, this remarkable 1200-year-old dug-out canoe has been raised from the sea and moved to a tank where it will undergo careful conservation.26 November 2002 -
News 13,000-year-old hunter-gatherer bone in Georgian cave reveals "major new piece in human jigsaw", say scientistsZoologists have used a human right temporal bone from more than 13,000 years ago to pinpoint a new "fourth strand" of ancestry in pre and post-Ice Age Europeans.16 November 2015 -
News £150,000 grant to put Bush Barrow treasures on display at Wiltshire Heritage MuseumWiltshire Heritage Museum is celebrating a £150,000 grant to build a new pre-history gallery which will feature Britain's richest Bronze Age burial, found at Bush Barrow, near Stonehenge.01 September 2009 -
News 1,500-year-old bone of giant auk found by archaeologists in early medieval ScotlandArchaeologists and leaders at the Scottish Seabird Centre say the upper arm bone of a flightless bird, last scene in Scotland in 1840, provides a warning about extinction.12 May 2014 -
News £15m Grant Gives Go-Ahead For Ashmolean RedevelopmentBritain's oldest museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, has secured a £15 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its major redevelopment.04 October 2005 -
News 15th Century Versions Of Hello! Celebrity News Magazine Go OnlineResearchers at the University of Warwick have digitised more than 250 lively Renaissance festival books on the British Library website.15 August 2005 -
News 17th century bunion sufferer's shoe, dolls and knives found under mansion floorboardsCabling works have led to hundreds of finds at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, including a shoe believed to have been buried in a bid to ward off evil spirits.28 February 2014 -
News 19th Century Time Team Unearthed In WiltshireA new exhibition at Wiltshire Heritage Museum reveals a time before geophysics when intrepid gents spent their time digging up the county's prehistory.31 May 2003 -
News 200 million-year-old fish fossils return to Scarborough after "extended vacation"Having spent 50 years in Doncaster, a set of ancient fish fossils are returning to Scarborough following a conservation project which has delighted curators in Yorkshire.12 August 2013 -
News 2000-Year-Old Mosaic Unearthed Under New Museum In LincolnExcavations at the site of the new £10.5 million City and County Museum in Lincoln has revealed the biggest Roman mosaic found in the city for a century.15 July 2003 -
News 2004 In Review — My Cultural Year By Estelle Morris And FriendsEstelle Morris and others tell us their favourite exhibitions and events of 2004 from heart-stopping archaeological finds to blockbuster gallery shows, art prizes and national campaigns.23 December 2004 -
News 2014 World Monuments Watch lists Deptford, Grimsby, Northamptonshire and LondonBattersea Power Station, Sulgrave Manor, Grimsby Ice Factory and Deptford Dockyard are among 67 at-risk sites ranging from Bethlehem to Berlin.10 October 2013 -
News £27.4m In Grants For Museum Of London And Royal MuseumThe Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded grants totalling £27 million to the Museum of London and Royal Museum Scotland for major improvement works.24 July 2005 -
News £4 million DCMS/Wolfson funding drive boosts dozens of museums and galleriesA £4 million cash boost for 34 sites across the UK will "provide the extras normal funding cannot reach", according to Culture Minister Barbara Follett.05 September 2009
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News 4,000-year-old mummy to go back on display after evading crystal deathThe tomb of Pa-ikh-mennu - who once worked at the temple of Amun in Thebe in modern Luxor - will go back on show in Warrington after being saved from a mysterious white growth.24 March 2014
