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Museum acquires items from defender of Rorke’s Drift

At the auction, the museum acquired three lots belonging to Chard: a small archive of material relating to his life; a manuscript copy concerning the battle; and surveying and drawing instruments in a wooden case belonging to the Lieutenant.…

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The Battlefields of England

I headed for the battlefield monument to get my bearings – an obelisk erected in 1740 to mark the spot where Warwick the Kingmaker, the greatest figure of the Wars of the Roses, was supposedly cut down...…

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War on Film: The Desert Rats (1953)

The battle scenes are, in the main, well made, especially in showing what it was like for men hiding in dugouts and wadis in the desert under intense artillery-fire.…

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Reading between the runes

The British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) recently passed the milestone of one million records generated since the project’s foundation in 1997.…

 

 

 

 

 

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Pompeii’s robot archaeologist

'Spot' is equipped to carry out routine inspections and monitor…

Neo-Assyrian complex with rock art unearthed beneath a Turkish village

Likely created around 900-600 BC, the relief represents a rare…

Stone jars found in India

Many of the jar sites in Assam contain engraved stone…

Conservation work on Constable painting reveals long-lost Thames skyline

Bright blue skies and a view of the early 19th-century…

Early evidence of Maya calendar found

This discovery demonstrates that this calendar system has been in…

 

 

 

 

 

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The Princess of Khok Phanom Di

Charles Higham

The Princess of Khok Phanom Di

The Princess was not buried alone. Alongside her was a grave big enough for an adult, which contained the ochre covered skeleton of a little girl aged about 18 months, covered in about 15,000 shell beads and, lo and behold, a tiny clay anvil for shaping pots.
Ancient aquifers and a sovereign spirit

Chris Catling

Ancient aquifers and a sovereign spirit

The death of Prince Philip was marked on Tanna with traditional rites and tribute ceremonies: the consensus among members of the sect is that the Duke’s spirit has returned to its island home…
Last word on Roman London

Andrew Selkirk

Last word on Roman London

Traders poured in, London flourished, and in ten years it became the biggest town in Britain. But then, disaster! Boudica rebelled and London was destroyed: traces of burning from this episode are still visible in the lower layers of excavations.
Excavating Hertfordshire

Joe Flatman

Excavating Hertfordshire

The site began life as a simple farmstead in the 1st century AD and transformed over the centuries into quite a grandiose stone structure, with a swimming pool and bath complex, by the mid-2nd century AD.

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