Continuing last month’s exploration of high sites across the country, both well known and less well known, that reflect the profound impact…
The tomb of China’s first emperor is renowned for its buried army of terracotta warriors. Lucia Marchini tours a new exhibition exploring…
The arsenal of iron shot that was carried aboard Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, may have once struck fear into the…
Julius Caesar first invaded Britain on 23 August 55 BC. Within a month, he was gone, and although his army – fewer…
Most of England’s monumental mounds are assumed to be Norman castle mottes built in the period immediately after the Conquest – but…
In this latest column exploring ‘great excavations’ (a mini-series that we began last month), I turn my attention to the Roman period.…
I’ve attended Current Archaeology’s conference every year since joining the magazine as editorial assistant in 2011, and have helped plan and chair…
How do you run an experimental Iron Age Farm, or indeed a museum in these days of cuts to the government budget?…
The nearly 10,000-year-old skeleton who came to be known as ‘Cheddar Man’ was found in 1903, in Gough’s Cave at Cheddar Gorge,…
Ancient DNA analysis of an Anglo-Saxon woman from East Anglia, afflicted with leprosy, has indicated that there could be a link between…
Archaeological analysis has revealed what is being called a Mesolithic ‘crayon’. It came from the ancient Lake Flixton – now covered in…