The discovery of an anonymous shipwreck off the coast of Sussex set archaeologists on the trail of a 350 year-old mystery. Mark Beattie Edwards reports on efforts to identify the sunken vessel and to protect its historic remains, sharing a story of bravery in…
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Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.…
Joe Flatman explores over half a century of reports from the past.…
We all enjoy stories about new discoveries, and it is these that tend to grab the news headlines, but there is another kind of story that gets far less coverage: those that contradict an earlier claim. In that category is the finding that our species – Homo sapiens – may…
Ever since the redoubtable Madeleine Colani explored the wonderful karst country of Hoa Binh Province, west of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, a century ago, the hunter-gatherers of Southeast Asia have received rather a poor press. With a background in the superb stone technology of the Upper Palaeolithic of her native…
Glowing in vivid technicolour against a pitch-black backdrop, the stone blocks pictured here are part of a group of seven Roman altars that have been reimagined in colour using only projected light – all as part of a new, immersive…
There are lots of great opportunities to get involved in history, heritage, and archaeology this winter. Whether you’re looking for new exhibitions,…
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A new virtual-reality experience in London transports visitors to the Great Pyramid of Giza, allowing them to explore its interior and immerse…
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.…
This is a Roman tortoise or turtle figurine that was recently found by a metal-detectorist near Wickham Skeith in Suffolk. Cast in…
The Caucasus is a region where nations have often found themselves sandwiched between competing great powers. Christoph Baumer examines the political intrigues…
Fifty years ago, I received a life-changing letter. David Peacock, my tutor at Southampton University, offered me a doctoral scholarship to study…
What is it? This impressive necklace from a Neolithic child burial is composed of over 2,500 beads, made from three varieties of…
Archaeologists and historians tend to approach the early medieval period through the lens of what was lost after…
Excavations by the Caistor Roman Project outside the walls of Venta Icenorum are revealing the impact on local…
This spring marked 300 years since the introduction of the 1723 Workhouse Test Act, often seen as the…
For the last two years, archaeologists have been exploring the remains of a medieval nunnery that once occupied…
As Hadrian’s Wall is a protected World Heritage Site, opportunities to excavate across the line of the Roman…
Recent excavations on the south-western part of the Northumberland Coastal Plain have revealed an early Bronze Age ring-ditch…
A new exhibition at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery features artefacts recovered from the wreck of the…
In the concluding part of our Orkney trilogy (see also CA 394 and 395), Carly Hilts reports on…
Archaeological work just outside Northampton has uncovered an internationally significant burial, furnished with a remarkable 7th-century necklace, as…
In the early years of the 19th century, military camps sprang up along the south coast of England…
Between 2016 and 2018, Cotswold Archaeology’s excavation of disused rugby pitches in Stoke Gifford, just north of Bristol,…
Three years of excavations centred on a c.6,000-year-old burial monument in Herefordshire have revealed that its story is…
A collaborative project has brought to light the lives of a 19th-century community living and working in Fewston,…
An award-winning social prescribing project has been excavating thousands of years of history within the Walmgate area of…
During the early Neolithic period, a distinctive regional tradition of funerary architecture developed on either side of the…
It has been an undergraduate essay topic for the last 50 years and is a question that continues…
Skellig Michael – the larger of two rocky islets that lie 8 miles (13km) west of the Iveragh…
The title of The First Stones, a newly published book edited by William Britnell and Alasdair Whittle, proclaims…
Since the first hints of Neolithic masonry emerged at the Ness of Brodgar in 2003, two decades of…
In 2019, excavations at Kalambo Falls in Zambia produced a range of wooden objects. These included structural elements…
