Our cover feature takes us inside a well-appointed Roman villa in Dorset. There we find many of the sumptuous, if occasionally garish,…
The latest exhibition at the British Museum offers an overview of South African art from manuports to Mandela and beyond. Lucia Marchini…
A selection of the most luxurious of English embroideries, much desired by the rich and powerful of medieval Europe, have been brought together…
Every year, the Current Archaeology Awards celebrate the people and projects that have made the pages of CA this year, and the…
Archaeological work beside the River Wensum in Norfolk has revealed more than 80 rare Middle Saxon log coffins and plank-lined graves, preserved…
Archaeology is alive with uncertainties. Time and again new sites or technologies upend longstanding theories. All this month’s featured sites show the…
Exploring the Rothwell Charnel Chapel Project Why were bones placed in charnel chapels, and just how common was this practice in medieval…
Legend has it that the Rothwell charnel chapel was discovered when a grave digger tumbled into an underground vault stacked with bones.…
The Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard was reopened 471 years to the day since the sinking of Henry VIII’s flagship…
Issue 320 of Current Archaeology goes on sale today (6 October), boasting a brand new look with even more pages of dedicated archaeological…