Transforming the story of two Sussex villages A recent series of excavations across Burpham and Wepham in West Sussex has revealed new…
On 12th September the University of Leicester held an extraordinary press conference. They announced that a three week dig seeking the remains…
New excavations have revealed why the country’s finest set of Jupiter altars were committed to the earth in gigantic pits. Ian Haynes…
Spitalfields in London is thought to be the largest excavated cemetery in the world. Recent research has focussed on the site’s…
In CA 111 Chris Scarre pointed out that the explosion of Thera could be dated to 1626 BC. This may, however, only…
In 1985 I presented a population graph for Britain extending from the Mesolithic to recent times, which was characterised by periodic ups…
When Andrew Selkirk asked me to append some comments to Mike Baillie’s piece on volcanic “events”, it prompted the notion that I…
Immortalised in Henry V as ‘this wooden O’, the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch was home to Shakespeare’s company of players until the…
Anglo-Saxon skeletons have been surfacing for almost a century in the fields of Oakington. Now a new project has laid bare the…
An entire Neolithic settlement, predating Skara Brae, has been found on the tiny Orkney Island of Wyre.…
Were lepers reviled as 'unclean' outcasts of the Middle Ages? Recent excavations cast doubt on this enduring belief…