It was probably around 3,600 years ago that the earliest known depiction of the cosmos was buried in eastern Germany. By then, the Nebra Sky Disc had already served several roles. Repeatedly refashioning the artefact allowed it to keep pace with changing desires to…
These days, we take it for granted that we carry the world – and the cosmos – in our pockets. Powerful smart phones and ever-more-sophisticated technology mean that we can summon up highly detailed maps both of the earth and the heavens above with just a few taps of the screen. It was not always like this, of course.…
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It is one of hundreds of images of the investigation that are now available to browse online thanks to the conservation and digitisation efforts of the National Trust.…
A new exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, tells the story of 350 years of interaction between the British and Japanese…
New research into the Venus of Willendorf has shed more light on the fascinating prehistoric figurine’s construction and its possible origins. The…
Neil went on to propose using what R G Collingwood called ‘the historical imagination’ by blending data and interpretation to ‘tell the…
What is it? This 6th-century ivory comb, which may have been used by its owner to style his hair and beard, was…
A round-up of some of the best military history events and exhibitions to check out in 2022, including a new exhibition at…
Calum Henderson explores the lives and works of war photographers Gerda Taro, Endre Friedmann, Françoise Demulder, Anja Niedringhaus, Lee Miller, and Catherine…
DAVID PORTER ON MILITARY HISTORY’S DOOMED INVENTIONS.…
The newly released, star-studded British movie Operation Mincemeat is, on one level, about the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. On another,…
Few archaeologists had even heard of the Thornborough henges until 2002, when a local campaigning group started to…
Around 8000 years ago a huge underwater landslide off Norway triggered a tsunami (‘tidal wave’) that wreaked destruction…
Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in Spring this year, archaeologist Simon Kaner insists there…
Fred Chiaventone recalls the service of the US Army’s first black regiments.…
Naval historian and museum curator Nick Hewitt explores a little-known British disaster of the Second World War.…
Neil Faulkner introduces an elite Nazi strike-force and sets the scene for the epic Battle of Crete in…
Neil Faulkner analyses one of the Second World War’s most curiously asymmetrical battles.…
Edmund West reports on a medieval naval battle that is little known but was of decisive significance.…
Inspired by the American and French revolutions, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 saw thousands take up arms against…
Analysis of human remains from the Links of Noltland, Westray, has revealed the first concrete evidence of a…
The people of Chichester – or Noviomagus Reginorum, as the settlement was known in the 1st century AD…
Rapid erosion has revealed spectacular Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology on the coast of Westray, Orkney. Contemporary with…
For decades, the accepted view of the Orcadian Neolithic was one of two cultural packages with a sharp…
For over a decade, archaeological research at the Ness of Brodgar has uncovered an astonishing array of Neolithic…
How can understanding the archaeology of peatlands help to ameliorate the current climate crisis? Rosie Everett and Gillian…
Nearly 50 years of excavations have explored much of Leicester’s north-eastern quarter – and now a newly published…
Come with me on a pub crawl — around Pompeii. There are some 163 pubs known so far…
Phil Harding and Emily Glass describe recent excavations by the charity Waterloo Uncovered, which has made exciting new…
Forget London 2012. What about Olympia in 388 BC? Archaeologist Neil Faulkner has just published a new book…
Vast quantities of artefacts were found in a mound in Oklahoma in the 1930s. Together they tell an…
