The latest research has used a newly developed approach to radiocarbon dating, which is capable of dating objects to an exact year.…
The coffin contains the remains of a man and an axe, which is thought to have been more of a symbol of authority than a practical tool.…
Archaeologists working in New Mexico, USA, have discovered a set of human footprints that date to thousands of years before people were thought to have arrived in the region.…
Around 800 objects have been recovered so far, making it one of the richest Late Bronze Age sites in Europe.…
Archaeologists exploring the Ciudadela at Tikal have discovered six phases of construction, mostly dating to the Early Classic period (c.AD 300-550).…
Among the objects found were bronze artefacts, imported Greek ceramics, and wicker fruit baskets still containing grape seeds…
The CARD fund provides funding for ten radiocarbon dates from British archaeological sites which are organised by community archaeology groups.…
Beyond Notability is a new project examining the role that women played in archaeology, history, and heritage in Britain between 1870 and 1950. The three-year £929,729 research project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London’s…
Discovered in 1960 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the first and only base established by the Vikings in North America.…
Battersea Power Station is one of several sites to have been removed from Historic England’s ‘heritage at risk’ register, the organisation has announced. The former electricity station in southwest London is in the final stages of an extensive redevelopment project and is due to open next year. Derelict for many…
The suit was made in around 1830 in the Japanese province of Kaga, an important centre of armour production…
The exhibition opens at the Imperial War Museum’s Duxford branch in December…
The trove consists of 131 gold coins and four gold objects…
The discovery of the courtyard was made after years of searching.…
Each of the bodies showed signs of serious injury and were buried with swords, maces, and arrows.…
Most of the later burials were found outside the ring ditch, but inside the prehistoric enclosure the archaeologists found the c.AD 550 grave of a warrior.…
The team uncovered evidence of farming activity within the enclosure, alongside the foundation walls of a late Roman ‘tuning fork’ corn-dryer.…
Excavations on a hill in the Yorkshire Wolds have uncovered the remains of a 24m2 Iron Age shrine packed with cow skulls, deer antler, and other animal bones. The site appeared as crop marks in aerial photographs taken over 20 years ago, but its full complexity is only just being…
By analysing the proteins found in early modern legal records, a team of researchers have been able to prove that people in early modern Britain preferred to write their documents on sheepskin…
A community project excavating Scotland’s first railway has uncovered three 18th-century phases of timber construction layered on top of each other. The unprecedented discovery was made in East Lothian by the 1722 Waggonway Project, and has been described by railway historian and project archaeologist Anthony Leslie Dawson as ‘of national…