Norway’s largest known Viking Age hoard found
Analysis of two votive offering vessels from Pompeii is enhancing our understanding of Roman domestic rituals.
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Burial practices on the Plain of Jars
Analysis of two votive offering vessels from Pompeii is enhancing our understanding of Roman domestic rituals.
A Celtic princely burial in germany
Analysis of two votive offering vessels from Pompeii is enhancing our understanding of Roman domestic rituals.
A Stonehenge ‘prototype’
Analysis of two votive offering vessels from Pompeii is enhancing our understanding of Roman domestic rituals.
Early evidence of plague
Analysis of two votive offering vessels from Pompeii is enhancing our understanding of Roman domestic rituals.
Heritage mismanagement
Recent research at several heritage sites in Tanzania suggests that they may
be under threat from the very organisations tasked with protecting them.
The deviant dead of ancient Mesopotamia
Beheaded, bound, or partially burnt – Leif Inselmann examines irregular burials from the ancient Near East.
New Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial at Brookwood cemetery
The newly constructed Brookwood 1914-1918 Memorial to the Missing was inaugurated by HRH The Princess Royal, President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), on 9 June 2026. This memorial replaces an
Cannons from the American Revolution go on display
A collection of large cannons from the American Revolutionary War has returned to Savannah, Georgia, after several years of conservation work, as part of a project led by the US Army Corps
Hidden coins discovered beneath foremast of HMS Victory
Six coins have been recovered from beneath the foremast of Nelson’s famous flagship during an ongoing conservation project. Over several nights in April, a 750-tonne crane was used to remove the Victory’s
Divers find WWI wreck of US Coast Guard cutter
A team of divers believe they have identified the wreck of the USCGC Tampa off the English coast. The vessel was one of six United States Coast Guard cutters sent to Europe
Hereford Military History Festival returns
Following a successful inaugural event last year, the Hereford Military History Festival is back, from 25 to 27 September 2026. Held across three days in multiple historic venues around Hereford, Britain’s only
‘Prototype’ for Stonehenge’s solar alignment found
Excavations at Bulford have revealed the remains of a 5,000-year-old structure suggesting that the solstice was celebrated on Salisbury Plain centuries earlier than thought. CA reports.
Science Notes: Unlocking Iron Age funerary traditions in Scotland
Iron Age burial practices in Britain are among the most enigmatic, as few ‘formal’ cemeteries are known from this period (with some exceptions, such as among the Durotriges in Dorset; see CA
Iron Age votive site uncovered near Cirencester
Archaeological investigations near Cirencester in Gloucestershire have revealed the remains of what may have been a major religious, or ‘votive’, centre dating to the late Iron Age (c.100 BC-AD 43). The first
Archaeological landscape revealed near Newark-on-Trent
Archaeological investigations in advance of the A46 Newark Bypass scheme in Nottinghamshire have revealed a landscape scattered with features spanning six millennia. Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS) was contracted on behalf of National
Illicit distilling equipment found in Ben Lawers bothy
The recent excavation of a clandestine stone bothy at Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve (NNR) has uncovered a rare piece of a copper still, providing concrete proof that the site was once
Scotland’s earliest dentistry identified in Aberdeen
Recent analysis of a mandible (lower jawbone) from an individual buried inside the East Kirk of St Nicholas in Aberdeen has identified a rare example of late medieval/early post-medieval dentistry: the earliest
Britain’s oldest rock art rediscovered on the Gower?
A series of ten red horizontal lines, recently rediscovered in Bacon Hole on the southern coast of the Gower Peninsula in Wales, has been interpreted as rock art possibly dating to the
Rare Roman lead coffin displayed at Colchester
Excavations in Colchester have unearthed a rare and exceptionally well preserved lead coffin, housing the remains of a woman who lived and died during the later Roman period. Recent analysis has now
World news
Unusual religious monument uncovered in Egypt Excavations at the ancient Egyptian port city of Pelusium (modern-day Tell el-Farama) have uncovered the remains of a unique 2,000-year-old temple that is believed to have
Circular temple at Pelusium
The Egyptian mission excavating in North Sinai at Tell el-Farma – the site of the ancient border fortress of Pelusium – has uncovered a huge circular complex thought to be the remains
Coptic monastery
The remains of a Coptic monastery have been discovered by an Egyptian mission at Wadi el-Natrun, in Beheira Governorate. The structure, which dates from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD, sheds