This month’s cover feature takes us back to the time of the Crusades, telling the story of the Knights Hospitaller, a military…
When I joined Current Archaeology (as Editorial Assistant) in 2011, the first issue I worked on was CA 259. I can’t decide…
Can social value save archaeology from extinction? As CIfA’s code of conduct states, ‘fuller understanding of the past provided by archaeology is…
Around 4,000 years ago, a teenaged girl was laid to rest in what today is Northumberland, about 12km north-west of Newcastle. She…
Tracing life and death on the edge of the Northumberland Coastal Plain Recent excavations on the south-western part of the Northumberland Coastal…
This month’s cover story takes us to the western fringe of the early medieval Christian world: the isolated islet of Skellig Michael,…
From Spartacus to Maximus Decimus Meridius, images of gladiators and their life-or-death struggles in the Roman arena maintain a powerful hold today…
The island of Rousay is only around four miles long, but it boasts such an extraordinary richness of archaeological remains – with…
Happy New Year! This month’s cover story features an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon find from Northamptonshire: the Harpole Treasure. This necklace, the richest of…
Excavating early medieval Britain’s most significant female burial Archaeological work just outside Northampton has uncovered an internationally significant burial, furnished with a…