In 2023, soldiers carrying out a mine-detection sweep on Geumseongsan, a mountain in Naju, South Korea, discovered a small bronze object. After several years of research, the Naju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage has announced that this is the…
This year’s Heritage Open Day weekend (19-20 September) provided an opportunity to visit a hidden gem – the Royal Artillery Museum at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain. Part of its extensive collection is temporarily housed in Britain’s oldest surviving aircraft hangar,…
Between 1915 and 1972, Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast was the site of a series of top-secret military experiments. The area is now a nature reserve, under the care of the National Trust since 1993, but remnants of its…
Researchers believe they have identified the earliest archaeological evidence of trauma caused by a trebuchet. The discovery was made during analysis of several skeletons unearthed beneath the chapel of Stirling Castle, Scotland, during excavations in 1997. Five of the burials,…
The year 2027 marks the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror in Falaise, Normandy. To honour the occasion, the Normandy Region – in partnership with the UK and Ireland, the Channel Islands, Flanders, Norway, Denmark, and the…
with Marc DeSantis