On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, made what is ...

The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) has filed a freedom of information request to the British Museum after the London museum refused to grant the institute permission to make a 3-D scan of the ...

Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. The skeleton has a nail piercing its foot, perhaps the best-preserved archaeological evidence of ...

Lorna Richardson works for the Council for British Archaeology. This role receives funding from the Esmee Fairburn Foundation. George Osbourne has just announced that government departments have to ...

A new archaeology gallery at the Maidstone Museum has been opened by comedian and actor Hugh Dennis. Mr Dennis said he had heard about the gallery through friends at the Kent Archaeological Society ...

Gertrude Bell with Sir Percy Cox and Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia. Basra, April 1916. (Gertrude Bell Archive/Newcastle University) On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British ...

There’s nothing like watching ISIS blow up the ancient city of Nineveh to make archaeologists, conservationists, and historians feel helpless. Yet many have responded to ISIS’s destruction ...

Tattershall Castle will present artefacts that were uncovered during its restoration in the early 1900s A festival celebrating archaeology will take place across National Trust sites in Lincolnshire.

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BRITISH archæology, perhaps, has profited more than any other field of archæological investigation by the recent diversion of interest from the more striking products of a culture to the building up ...

AMONG the numerous papers on British archæology read before Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association at the recent Bristol meeting, two are of special interest. (1) Mr. C. W. Phillips, in ...