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 ...

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists ...

The Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology is back for 2022, encouraging all to take part in a journey of discovery and get involved with hundreds of local and online events ...

Campaigners claim the closure could lead to a "less diverse workforce" of archaeologists More than 4,000 people have signed a petition urging a university to reconsider closing its archaeology ...

On a cold and blustery December morning, archaeologists dotted the land, trowels in hand, gingerly unearthing finds from Roman Britain. They wore luminous orange high-vis jackets and vests and gave ...

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 ...

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 The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford.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 ...

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 ...

AMONG the numerous papers on British archæology read before Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association at the recent Bristol meeting, two are of special interest. (1) Mr. C. W. Phillips, in ...

THE ARCHAEOLOGY of British homes may not sound too interesting but superstitious Brits have actually been burying some pretty creepy stuff in their walls for centuries. Between the 15th and 18th ...

Campaigners claim the closure could lead to a "less diverse workforce" of archaeologists More than 4,000 people have signed a petition urging a university to reconsider closing its archaeology ...