The winners of this year’s Current Archaeology Awards were announced on Saturday 28th February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. The…
April Fool! Did we catch you out with our ‘breaking news’ about the earliest-known representation of the Easter Bunny? Sadly this discovery…
An eyewitness account of the procession that bore Richard III's remains to his final resting place.…
Livetweeting from this year's conference…
Recently I had the good fortune to spend a week in France doing babysitting duties with my grandchildren at my son’s house…
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Richard III’s life was ended by a brutal thrust into the back of his neck, which penetrated so far into his head…
We have been excavating at Caen Castle in Normandy for the past four years. As the dig came to an end, we…
While reading about the Bronze Age skeleton 'Racton Man', we got Elton John's 'Rocket Man' well and truly stuck in our heads…
Home: A Time Traveller’s Tales from Britain’s Prehistory Francis Pryor Allen Lane, £20.00 ISBN 978-1846144875 ‘Archaeology is about the past as experienced…
The History of Archaeology Paul Bahn (ed.) Routledge, £24.99 ISBN 978-0415841726 This welcome book is essential reading for archaeology students, with 13…
The Great Archaeologists Brian Fagan (ed) Thames & Hudson, £24.95 ISBN 978-0500051818 Archaeology can lay claim to its fair share of colourful…