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Last week’s discovery of the ancient village, buried in the fens for 3,000 years, adds to the rich array of archaeological finds across the UK Britain’s “Pompeii of the Fens” is an extraordinary window into the Bronze Age – and just one of many spectacular finds in these ancient isles. The well-preserved village near Peterborough had been hidden for 3,000 years until it was ­uncovered by archeologists . News last week of its discovery quickly prompted comparisons with the  ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii, the Sunday People reports. But, as TV archaeologist Neil Oliver says, precious ­relics of the past have been dug up plenty of times before Some are shown on these pages – and there are probably many more waiting to be found. Neil, 48, well known as a ­presenter of of BBC1 series Coast and various historical documentaries, said: “The whole landscape is a treasure trove of undiscovered stuff. Discovery: A pot found in the Bronze Age settlement “It contains everything ...

Finding ancient well-persevered clothes is not something that happens daily. This is why this particular 1,700-year-old tunic is so special. It is Norway’s oldest piece of clothing and despite being hidden beneath the snow for so many years, it’s still very well-preserved. The Iron Age tunic from Lendbreen is the oldest preserve d garment in Norway. Credit: Marianne Vedeler “It’s very rarely that we find well-preserved clothing from prehistoric times,” explains Marianne Vedeler, professor at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo to Yngve Vogt of the Apollan Research Magazine. “Only a handful of clothing like this has been found in Europe.” Fieldwork at the Lendbreen Glacier where archaeologists stumbled across the tunic. Credit: Secrets of the Ice With climate change melting glaciers like the Lendbreen at unprecedented rates, hundreds of artifacts emerge from the ice ev...

Pterosaur parents reproduced more like turtles than birds, according to a new study of a fossilized mother and her egg. The discovery is also the first to allow researchers to conclusively tell the sex of a pterosaur. The fossils were found next to each other in China’s Liaoning Province, once the site of an ancient lake. They appear to belong to a species of pterosaur called Darwinopterus (picture), which lived about 160 million years ago. Scientists think the adult was an expectant pterosaur mother that somehow broke her left wing, causing her to fall into the lake and drown. The body sank to the bottom and eventually expelled the egg. “During the decay process, you get a buildup of gases and pressure inside the carcass, and that tends to expel things out,” said study co-author David Unwin, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the U.K. The egg “didn’t go very far. It just came out of the body and sat there.” In addition to the associated egg, the fossil has a...

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