Academics and other old graduates of the School of Archaeology are been invited to mark 50 years of education at the University of Leicester. This year, as the University of Leicester rejoices 50 years since it established its Royal Charter, the globally commended School of Archaeology and Ancient History as well celebrates 50 years of education and research in Archaeology in addition to forty years of teaching Classics and Ancient History.
Center of its celebrations is a day of activities on Saturday 15th March, when the School invited its graduates back to mark the victory and landmarks Leicester archaeologists have attained over the years, and to launch an anniversary book, digging up our Past.

LONDON: Stonehenge, which is the prehistoric monument built in several construction phases spanning at least 3000 years, was the site where Stone Age battles were fought to death, a leading archaeologist, Dennis Price has claimed. Dennis who is a Stonehenge expert and former archaeologist with Wessex Archaeology, said that he thinks a skeleton discovered in a ditch around the ancient monument in 1978 is proof that the site was used for ritual combat.

The skeleton belonged to a man who had been killed by arrows in 2,300 BC and after being analyzed was give to the Museum of Salisbury. Dennis said these skeletons found at or close to Stonehenge have often been found buried with weapons, which suggest that those close to the mysterious monument could have died violent deaths. “There is firm evidence of a long standing tradition of sentinels at Stonehenge going back to when it was originally built in 2,600 BC and possibly before”, he also added, “The function of these individuals was to symbolically guard the temple, but I think they could only be replaced by someone who physically defeated them in a ritual combat”.

According to the Bible’s Book of Nehemiah, the Nehemiah’s Wall has been discovered in the ancient city of Jerusalem after a very long time by a team of archaeologists in Israel, when they were actually trying to save a tower that was in danger of collapsing. The leader of the excavation Eilat Mazar, from the Institute of Archaeology at Shalem Center; said that the artifacts included arrowheads and pottery shards were found near the tower, hence the ancient wall has to be nearby from 5th Century BC, which was the time of Nehemiah. The findings show that the structure has to be the part of the wall mentioned in the Bible. The Nehemiah book gives detailed information about the description of the wall, which was destroyed by the Babylonians.