Founded by Henry V and built by Henry VI, Syon Abbey was one of 16th-century England’s richest religious houses. A previous Time Team investigation into its remains provided an invaluable springboard for further research, but their three-day dig could only reveal so much.…
According to the dictionary, it means simply 'land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation'. But in the context of our human story, the word 'jungle' – which derives from the Hindi 'jangal' – has often taken on unfairly negative connotations.…
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It was designed by the Soviet Union during the Second World War to take on the German Tigers and Panthers.…
There is a great selection of new exhibitions and events taking place at museums and heritage sites around the UK in the…
An immersive online exhibition hosted by the Vindolanda Trust uses the extraordinary range of wooden artefacts excavated at the Roman fort to…
Carrying on the ornithological theme from last issue’s ‘Finds Tray’, which profiled an early medieval brooch featuring a bird, this Roman lock…
What is it? This 51,000-year-old engraved toe bone is one of the oldest works of art ever found. The bone, which is…
Based in Rome, LoveItaly is now in its seventh year and its accent is decidedly American and not patrician. It owes everything…
A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge presents an array of artefacts from the Iron Age Saka culture of East…
The best Military History events, lectures, and exhibitions running from November to April 2022.…
Taylor Downing surveys screen depictions of Pearl Harbor in a ‘War on Film’ special.…
When the UK locked down against COVID-19 last spring, many archaeologists were unable to work as normal…
The stupendous temple of Angkor Wat and its forested environs are currently the focus of a major project…
Can studying past coastal change help us to ameliorate the climate crisis facing us today? A project focused…
The construction of a new bypass on the A75 near Dunragit has uncovered a wealth of archaeological finds,…
Excavation in Northampton town centre has revealed the remains of a 12th-century bone-working workshop that yielded not…
When Headland Archaeology excavated a site in Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, there was every expectation that the medieval village would…
The installation of the South Wales Gas Pipeline allowed archaeologists to investigate a 317km corridor stretching from the…
Archaeological investigations just outside Salisbury have uncovered echoes of early Bronze Age activity, including the burial of an…
Excavations in Bath have revealed the remains of one of the earliest Victorian wash houses. Constructed during a…
Excavation just outside Corby has shed vivid light on the construction of a Roman villa, the reuse of…
How did medieval villagers understand the world around them? Stephen Mileson and Stuart Brookes addressed this question in…
The traditional story of Iona’s early medieval monastery ends in tragedy and bloodshed, with the religious community…
In the 8th century, Cookham minster was the focus of a decades-long power struggle between early medieval…
Ritual or rubbish – how should we interpret objects that ended their days in rivers during the Roman…
The Sculptor’s Cave, on Scotland’s north-east coast, is best known for the Pictish carvings that give the site…
The Irish archaeologist Barry Raftery (1944-2010) wrote: ‘Death represents the ultimate confrontation between the human and the supernatural…
It was long thought that huge and complex monuments like Mount Pleasant in Dorset had developed over many…
Bog bodies are particularly potent archaeological discoveries, representing the recognisable faces of people from the past. Why were…
The deeds of royal dynasties presiding over Maya city-states in northern Guatemala can still be followed on…
During 2020, 'squeezes' – copies – made in the 1930s of Butrint’s exceptional inscriptions from the Sanctuary of…
