After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
An important feasting site is being excavated at Llanmaes in south Wales. Along with fabulous metalwork and pottery, archaeologists have found…
In the summer of 1984, archaeologists recovered the well-preserved remains of a 2,000-year-old body from a bog in Cheshire. Years later, the…
In 1700, Liverpool was a small town with a dock that was in danger of silting up. Yet it was a…
English Heritage has just spent £2.1 million recreating an Elizabethan garden based on an eyewitness description published in a letter in 1575.…
High on the moor at Silloans, within the Otterburn Training Area, lies the well-preserved remains of a trench system.…
To get to the bottom of why, and how, the Ministry of Defence looks after archaeology on an active firing range, CA…
A new BBC documentary presented by Alice Roberts has been charting the spread of modern humans across the globe. Is it really…
Jargon: which words would you ban?The Local Government Association has published a list of words and phrases that it thinks council staff…
A 9th century palace, an enormous 3,000-year-old Neolithic earthworks and the origins of Scottish kingship: Gordon Noble and colleagues from the University…
Archaeologists have excavated over 600 bodies from around the world, mysteriously buried face-down. Britain is the biggest hotspot — with more than…