• Sandstone sculpture of three legionaries, Croy Hill, 200 300 AD. Image © National Museums Scotland

    Roman Scotland: Life on the edge of Empire

    What was the impact of Rome’s numerous attempts to conquer Scotland? A new exhibition in Edinburgh traces the experiences of soldiers, civilian inhabitants of frontier fort communities, and the local people whose lands they occupied. Fraser Hunter reports.

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  • Personal adornment in early Egypt

    Personal adornment in early Egypt

    Barbara Boczar explores the materials used to create objects for personal adornment in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Early Dynastic periods.

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  • In the pipeline: Besselsleigh deserted manor and village

    In the pipeline: Besselsleigh deserted manor and village

    During this season’s work at the Oxfordshire site of Besselsleigh deserted manor and village (CA 400) by Appleton Area Archaeological Research Project (AAARP), the team of volunteers and students from the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) excavated the route of a medieval lead pipe supplying fresh water to the manor. It begins at…

  • Buried Roman baths

    Buried Roman baths

    It was abandoned in Late Antiquity, around the 5th century AD.

  • Farming Wales

    Farming Wales

    This image shows Esgair Llewelyn in Powys, one of the oldest farmhouses in Wales. It was built as a cruck-framed upland hallhouse c.1500. It would have originally had an open fire in the middle of the hall floor, but the building was remodelled in the 16th and 17th centuries to incorporate stone walls, fireplaces, and…

  • Marengo’s makeover: conserving Napoleon’s favourite war horse

    Marengo’s makeover: conserving Napoleon’s favourite war horse

    In this picture, a conservator at the National Army Museum in London holds the skull of Marengo, the most famous of the horses that belonged to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Named after Napoleon’s victory over the Austrian Empire at the Battle of Marengo in Italy on 14 June 1800, Marengo served on many military campaigns,…

  • Statues of Akhenaten at Karnak

    Statues of Akhenaten at Karnak

    In 1925, two colossal statues of Akhenaten were discovered in an unpromising area outside the eastern enclosure wall of Karnak Temple. Since then, many more have been found.

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  • The Jacobite Wars

    In the first part of our new series, Graham Goodlad explores the Jacobite movement’s early attempts to overthrow Britain’s ruling Protestant monarchy.

Museums

We continue our visits of museums around the workd

Objects

We select our favourite objects from the newly discovered to the well-known

  • Finds Tray: Bronze Age hoard

    Finds Tray: Bronze Age hoard

    This is a Bronze Age hoard that was found near Blyth Bridge in the Scottish Borders. It comprises two bronze axe-heads, a complete copper ingot…

  • The pectoral of Ramesses II, Musée du Louvre

    The pectoral of Ramesses II, Musée du Louvre

    Campbell Price describes a New Kingdom pectoral made of electrum and glass.

  • Finds Tray: Bronze Age button

    Finds Tray: Bronze Age button

    This Bronze Age button comes from a hoard of three copper-alloy items that also included two axe heads. One of the axe heads was noticed…

  • Medieval notebook

    Medieval notebook

    We can see Latin, scratched into the book’s wax 700-800 years ago. What is it? This well-preserved medieval ‘notebook’ dates to the 13th or 14th…

  • Medieval death on the Nile

    Thomas Smith relates the saga of the remarkable crusade on the Nile that came close to reshaping the Near East.

Groups

We discover the little known, yet tirelessly dedicated voluntary heritage societies thriving in Britain today..

  • Nautical Archaeology Society

    Nautical Archaeology Society

    Sea levels have risen by around 120m (400ft) since the last Ice Age, only stabilising at their current position around 3,000 years ago. Given how…

  • The Grayling Society

    The Grayling Society

    In the world of fly fishing, trout dominate the headlines, but in the past grayling were considered to be the equal of trout for sporting…

  • Friends of Abingdon Abbey Buildings Trust

    Friends of Abingdon Abbey Buildings Trust

    On 9 February 1538, Abbot Thomas Rowland signed a Deed of Surrender, formally handing over his monastery to Henry VIII, and the 1,000-year history of…

  • Cambridge Past, Present & Future

    Cambridge Past, Present & Future

    Starting with the opening of the UK’s first science park in 1970, Cambridge has grown from the sleepy market town of 60 years ago into…