ARCHAEOLOGY

The artefacts belonged to Queen Hatshepsut, the first ever woman pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt.

Remains of four children and a man buried in a strange upright position have been discovered in Germany.

Underwater excavation showed white marble used to decorate villas came from Turkey, Greece and Italy.

Migrants were mainly men and children, and may have originated from North Africa or the Alps.

39 historically accurate models based on machine sketches by Da Vinci are now on display at the Science Museum.

As many as 30,000 fermented fish bones were recovered from the site.

Fossilised remains discovered of two extinct Rhinconichthys species that lived 92 million years ago.

Researchers claim global cooling 1,500 years ago triggered major social upheaval in Europe and Asia.

The white-coloured seal is carved in the shape of a scarab, represents Thutmose III seated on a throne.

Study finds new group of humans took over Europe after last Ice Age with similarities to modern-day Asians.

Stone Age human remains discovered at Aubrey Hole 7 in 2008 found to comprise 'around half' belonged to women.

A fossilised relative of the daddy-long-legs has been encased in amber with a very large surprise.

It is one of the earliest surviving frescos from Roman Britain.

Archaeologists excavating Abusir South find 18m-long boat beneath tomb of wealthy individual.

Archaeologists find evidence of early humans feasting on tortoises at 400,000-year-old site.

Competition with modern humans, not epidemics or climate change, caused Neanderthal extinction.

Destruction of heritage sites by extremist groups spurs new scientific practice, transforming archaeology

The sticks were covered with a layer of hematite powders, one of the most widely used red pigments.

Recently discovered Babylonian tablet served as key to show how they tracked Jupiter 2,000 years ago.

Very well preserved 2,000-year-old statuettes of Artemis and Apollo uncovered in Aptera, Chania.

Church frescoes do not appear in any other church,and appear to show the Ascension and Last Judgement.

A construction crew digging at the football ground of Oregon State University discovered the remains.

High child mortality linked to lack of good sanitation and medicine.

A 20-30ft hadrosaurid species has been discovered that lived in Appalachia on the American east coast.

Dating back 2,500 years, there are dozens of foot prints that archaeologists believe are of ancient farmers.

Remains of a child dating to between 3800 and 3600BC discovered in Egypt may be the oldest known case of scurvy.

The first record of early human conflict was found in Kenya, with 27 individual skeletons being identified.

A wide analysis of a tomb at Alto de Reinoso shows 47 closely-related individuals were all buried together.

One of the world's oldest known species of Jurassic dinosaur has been discovered near Penarth Beach - the Dracoraptor hanigani.