On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, made what is ...

Lorna Richardson works for the Council for British Archaeology. This role receives funding from the Esmee Fairburn Foundation. George Osbourne has just announced that government departments have to ...

Gertrude Bell with Sir Percy Cox and Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia. Basra, April 1916. (Gertrude Bell Archive/Newcastle University) On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British ...

There’s nothing like watching ISIS blow up the ancient city of Nineveh to make archaeologists, conservationists, and historians feel helpless. Yet many have responded to ISIS’s destruction ...

A NEW report, the "Survey and Policy of Field Research in the Archaeology of Great Britain. 1: The Prehistoric and early Historic Ages to the Seventh Century A.D.", has recently been published by the ...

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 Iron-Age metal artifacts, which was found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in December 2021. Its discovery represents a triumph ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...

The congress of the British Archaeological Association in Canterbury in September 1844 was the first archaeological conference in Britain. This paper examines the visual practices of performance and ...

The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford. Archaeologists are used ...

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Archaeologists say a skeleton found with a nail through its foot is evidence of Roman crucifixion. The skeleton with a nail lodged through his heel was uncovered at a dig in Cambridgeshire, England.

"This volume originated from a symposium on Northwest Coast archaeology held at SFU on October 27, 2001 ... in conjunction with the annual BC Archaeology Forum"--Pref. Long-term continuity in central ...