Content by tag : archaeology
Construction work on Brussels’ new metro line 3 has turned up some interesting archaeological treasures.
An international team of archaeologists has discovered human bones and animal skeletons near Mont-Saint-Jean farm in Waterloo, reports RTBF.
The Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) plans to formally request the return of the Ishango Bone, a valuable artefact excavated in the DRC during Belgian colonialisation.
Archaeological excavations in Adegem near Maldegem, West Flanders, have uncovered traces of a Roman road linking Antwerp to an important Roman camp.
If archaeology is all about discovering the past, then the Aalter-Woestijne project must rate as one of the most successful digs ever carried out in Flanders.
Archaeological work being done behind Sint-Baafs Cathedral in Ghent has turned up some 800 intact skeletons, many of them children.
It was one of the most spectacular finds on the Waterloo battlefield for years: more than two centuries after the 1815 clash that ended Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign, two British army veterans
Two construction sites in Brussels have unearthed archaeological sites, and one of them offered up the tusk of a woolly mammoth. The tusk is half a metre long and 150,000 years old.
