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Mudlarking expert Jason Sandy has found a Roman hairpin, medieval 'knuckle duster', and three dead bodies in his 10 years of mudlarking on the River Thames

It is hoped the previously undiscovered 1,600-year-old burial ground containing Roman and Saxon bones could help 'unlock' the secrets of one of the most important periods in British history

The Sphinx-like statue, which is said to be in the likeness of Roman Emperor Claudius, was made near the Dendera Temple complex in Qena, Egypt, an area conquered by the empire after the taking of Carthage in 146BC

The 191-foot-long Ironton collided with another ship in September 1894 and both vessels sank in the Thunder Bay area of northern Lake Huron in North America

A team discovered the maoi head carving submerged in mud while carrying out work at the Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island - island locals think the statue may have been there for centuries

Scientists have discovered two brothers who seemingly conducted a rare type of brain surgery 600 years ago after one skull was found with a square surgically removed from it

The two-thousand-year-old object discovered in a Northumberland ditch in the Roman fort of Vindolanda back in 1992 was originally catalogued as a darning tool

An ancient pub thought to be 5,000 years old has been found by archaeologists, who claim the discovery shows that pre-modern societies were more complex than previously thought

A gold-leaf-covered mummy was discovered sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years which an archaeologist called the "most complete mummy found in Egypt to date"

Bone fragments from eight individuals were dated to around 4,000 years ago while others went back 5,500 years, with very earliest dating to the Mesolithic era just after the end of the last Ice Age

Construction work in Jerusalem has led to the discovery of a well-preserved mysterious handprint in the wall of a moat that dates back at least 1,000 years and it has left researchers baffled

A massive thousand-year-old Viking hall that may have once housed important meetings has been found by archaeologists who believe they have only excavated part of the giant structure

The findings at Denge Quarry at Dungeness on the Romney Marsh in Kent were uncovered by a team from Cemex, the company dredging for aggregates at the site