A Time Team excavation of a Tudor outdoor lav near the King's Privy Garden has unearthed dozens of heraldic bongs belonging to Henry VIII archaeologists said today. Signed by renowned court jeweller Sir Peregrine Nuggets the wrought filigree silve...
Archeologists claim they have found a 5000-year old backgammon. Backgammon uses dice, or rather knucklebones, to provide random numbers, or rather deity's will and pre-determination, to determine the movements of the checkers. In addition to backgammon, man, in complex situations, uses the same knucklebone idea to determine what to do, shifting the responsibility to the supernatural and thus...
Following a recent excavation in Northumberland for Channel Four's Time Team, Tony Robinson has confirmed the discovery of remains believed to be from a space craft of unknown origin. Discovered in a blast crater, the remains appear to be those o...
The American Association of Archaeologists has issued a statement to counteract what it calls "vicious lies and fallacies" about their work. James Tukinluk, the head of the AAA, maintains from his post at Berkeley that "movies like Indiana Jones,...
Despite his meteoric rise to power, his total control of the Senate, Tribunes and the Praetorian Guard and also the vice-like grip he held over the city for over fifteen years, it emerged today that not one single person in Rome had had much to do wi...
Two amateur treasure hunters in Wigan were tying out a new metal detector in their own back garden when they uncovered a rare haul of Roman gold and silver. "We were staggered when it beeped over my petunias," said Kathy Trove. "Staggered, yeah...
Archaeologists studying cave paintings in a dig in France have translated one set that has caused a shift in scientific thought. While once thought to portray a sense of history, they now think that cave paintings are just early graffiti. Dr. Cly...
Madrid, Spain - Luisa del Rivero y Cuernavaca, a student archaeologist from the University of Ponce De Leon has made an astounding discovery which turns on its head all previous theories about prehistoric cave women. It has been a widely accep...
Police in Derbyshire have sealed off an area after a burial site containing the skeletons killed in what appears to have been a massacre was found by archaeologists digging for trinkets. The burial site contained only the bones of women and childr...
Archaeologists, especially of the popular TV variety, have astounded viewers and university departments from different disciplines it has emerged. That they can find any old piece of rotting wood and imagine that they have stumbled upon a vast commu...
Two archeologists announced today that they have discovered 2,000 mummified goldfish whilst doing research in a pyramid in Egypt. It took them a while to figure out what the miniature mummies actually were. They used special x-ray equipment to st...
EL PASO, Texas-Biblical scholars and archaeologists the world over converged on El Paso, the hometown of Dusty Gibbons of ZZ Top, today. Apparently, some writings were discovered in the vast Texan desert (only about 4 miles from Gibbons' manorial...
The melting glaciers of the Bolivian Andes have yielded up the mummified remains of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. This was the major topic of interest at the University of La Paz 18th Scientific Assembly. According to Guido Trinidadolé, Profe...
Washington DC: Noted Archeologist Dr. Indiana Jones held an impromptu news conference after arriving at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. "Indy" will venture inside the Beltway to investigate the legend of the Obamable Snow-Job. Dr. Jones...
A charity event was announced today by Tony Robinson to raise money for archaeology in the UK. He explained, "For many years we have had Comic Relief, which raises money through comedy. Then we had Sport Relief, which raised money through various spo...
An archaeology expert has poured scorn on the discovery of a Roman settlement at a London building site. The discovery, on the site of the new Waldorf Astoria being built at Syon Park, has "excited" archeologists who have found more than 11,000 ar...
FLINT, Michigan - In the windowless basement of a long-abandoned home, scientists believe they have discovered the oldest known man cave. The cave contains the ruins of a billiard table and tiny wet bar, but this was useless in dating the struct...
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