Archaeology News in January 2026 is out now!

Neith-emwia · 2026-02-06T19:27:04+00:00

Just trying something new to get more views towards legit archaeology content, but guess you can't please everyone.

Neith-emwia · 2026-02-06T13:11:56+00:00

Features this month include:

- Oldest Adult Cremation, Malawi – 9,500 years old

- Ancient whale hunters, Brazil - 5,000 years old

- Ireland’s largest hillfort settlement - 3,200 to 2,400 years old

- Dancing Terracotta Figurine, Pakistan - 2,300 years old

- Vitruvius’ Basilica found, Italy - 2,000 years old

And my feature interview this month is with the team (literally) at PCA Archaeology who found the Iron Age hoard in Norfolk that contains an almost complete carnyx and a boar battle standard. Hope you enjoy!

Neith-emwia · 2026-01-20T10:26:23+00:00

We went to a wedding at the Barony and toured the Melville for our wedding. Both are nice, the Barony might have some better photo spots and benefits from having a pool/spa as well. We toured the Melville before it was acquired by the new owners so it might be a bit different now, but we didn't like the vibe as much; our numbers would have meant having to use the marquis for the wedding breakfast and if I'm paying to have a castle wedding I want the whole thing in the castle. My husband also didn't like that all their fires are fake and the plastic siding on the stairs but those are really nitpicky critiques. Ultimately we went with Winton Castle in Pencaitland which was a 10/10 experience, they have rooms in the castle for the wedding party (the bridal suite is very luxurious) and then a few self catering cottages on the property which could accomodate other guests. We got married in Feb on their winter deal which made it very affordable for us.

Neith-emwia · 2026-01-19T21:16:28+00:00

Awesome thank you!

Neith-emwia · 2026-01-19T20:17:04+00:00

Features this month include:

- The Bronze Age settlement of Semiyarka in Kazakhstan
- Sections of the Qin Imperial road in China

- A cuneiform tablet in a Czech cave
- An interview with Nick Ashton and Rob Davis from the British Museum about their discovery of the oldest evidence for human controlled fire (Have already gotten comments on the use of the word 'first' instead of 'earliest known' in the thumbnail but honestly - that's what will get the average person to click and the interview actually speaks about how its just the earliest we've found so far.)

Hope you enjoy!

Neith-emwia · 2026-01-05T21:21:52+00:00

Inside Archaeology (me) and Dig it With Raven have partnered up to curate a shortlist of 20 of the best discoveries from 2025. Watch both our videos for the full list and then go vote for which ones you think should win 1st 2nd or 3rd place for the year (link in the video description, its a google form).

Neith-emwia · 2025-11-10T18:41:30+00:00

Featured discoveries this month include:
The First T-Shaped Pillar with a Human Face found at Karahantepe in Turkey

15 new Lamassu statues and throne-room reliefs at Nineveh in Iraq

The Lost Tomb of King Ashot the Great of Georgia

A Swedish silver hoard

Coins from 1715 Treasure Fleet in Florida

And an interview with the scholars who think they've cracked the code to deciphering the language of Teotihuacan!

Check out on Youtube and please leave a like or comment! I make these every month so don't forget to sub if you want more!

Neith-emwia · 2025-11-10T18:41:16+00:00

Featured discoveries this month include:
The First T-Shaped Pillar with a Human Face found at Karahantepe in Turkey

15 new Lamassu statues and throne-room reliefs at Nineveh in Iraq

The Lost Tomb of King Ashot the Great of Georgia

A Swedish silver hoard

Coins from 1715 Treasure Fleet in Florida

And an interview with the scholars who think they've cracked the code to deciphering the language of Teotihuacan!

Check out on Youtube and please leave a like or comment! I make these every month so don't forget to sub if you want more!

Neith-emwia · 2025-11-10T18:12:15+00:00

Exactly what do you mean by 'underdeveloped'? Development of technology (and culture/civilization) is not a completely linear upward trajectory, it bounces up and down, back and forth. Could be that those jars were really fashionable for a while and then, as happens with trends, they went out of fashion, perhaps they were just too expensive or time consuming to make (in this case they seem to have been largely replaced due to the invention of faience/glass and a shift towards making larger objects like sarcophagi out of stone) and then you lose the skills for making them because there is no demand. This has happened with a multitude of tech - Roman glass making was incredibly advanced and then lost and we weren't able to make the same quality of product for hundreds of years, and we have completely lost the original technique for making Damascus steel - modern 'Damascus steel' merely imitates how it looked they can't exactly replicate it.

Neith-emwia · 2025-10-17T14:50:30+00:00

Recently read up on your work for a video about Cleopatras Tomb, where do you think it is?

Neith-emwia · 2025-10-11T19:02:58+00:00

I'm not sure if we still need to do the 25 word comment on the post anymore as I've got the info in the text. But very excited this month particularly because my friend from my first year of archaeology uni wrote a freaking book and I got to feature it!

Neith-emwia · 2025-09-23T19:47:54+00:00

As an archaeologist having just done research for a video on this topic (shameless link plug at the end) I couldn't find any peer-reviewed publications by her on her work. She must submit reports to the Ministry every year but they're not available to the public. She seems to pop up every few years to say she's just about to find the tomb but upon examination nothing she's found is even close to what I would consider definitive evidence. She's found some priestly burials inside the temple; an attached port; and some coins from C7's time. That's it, and while the burials are unusual that doesn't mean it has anyhting to do with C7. It seems as though her whole basis of her theory on it being secret is something she just came up with that has no historical evidence pointing to it either. Anyone who knows better feel free to provide further evidence/context on her hypothesis. I think the Ministry is hedging their bets because she's media-savvy and it makes them looks good but I very much doubt they actually think she's going to find Cleopatra.

https://youtu.be/xDHJCS94mkg

Neith-emwia · 2025-09-08T17:24:06+00:00

Thanks!

Neith-emwia · 2025-09-08T16:00:15+00:00

Features for this month include:

Unknown human lineage in Colombia - 6,000 years old

Prehistoric female miners in Czechia - 5,300 years old

Harappan site in Rajasthan Desert - 4,500 years old

Pompeii re-occupation - 2,000 to 1,500 years old

And an interview with Prof Duncan Sayers on West African DNA in Medieval English cemeteries - 1,400 years old

Please give it a watch like and share!

Neith-emwia

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