Archaeology Awards
Last year in Cardiff, we launched the Current Archaeology Awards to resounding success. We’re excited to open this year’s competition and look forward to your votes – just CLICK HERE ; these awards ar...
Bluestonehenge: Stonehenge's little sister
Archaeologists have discovered Stonehenge's little sister, dubbed Bluestonehenge, just 2.8km away on the west bank of the River Avon.
The Staffordshire Hoard
The largest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever found, was discovered this summer by a metal-detectorist in a field in Staffordshire and is set to revolutionise our perceptions of life in the 7th and 8th c...
500,000 BC - Boxgrove
The man who died half a million years ago.
In a gravel pit at Boxgrove, just outside Chichester, the remains of a man have been discovered, half a million years old. Only a shin bone and two teeth were...
Mick Aston reveals the secrets of Time Team
The Time team is Britain's longest running archaeology TV series. Here, Professor Mick Aston, the leader of the Time Team, reveals the secrets behind the programme's success.
Death Underground: Gas warfare at Dura-Europos
Interwar excavators found the remains of about 20 Roman soldiers in an ancient siege tunnel beneath the walls of the Syrian fortress-city of Dura-Europos. No-one was sure how they had died. Now, archa...
CWA 38
We think of chemical weapons as one of the horrifying features of modern warfare. We might assume that it all started with the First World War. But did it?
Our cover feature investigates the gruesome ...
Turkey: rebuilding Roman Ephesus
The very first issue looked at one of the largest town in the Roman empire- Ephesus, in Asia Minor, modern Turkey. Here the Austrian Archaeological Institute has been conducting a major campaign of re...
Ashmolean Museum
It is always a little dangerous to revisit old friends. What will they be like? Will you still like them when you have not seen them for a long time? It was with some trepidation that I returned to Ox...
Morris and the Prince - and much more
Morris and the Prince
Having just written a new guide to Kelmscott Manor, your diarist has a growing admiration for William Morris, whose country home this was. Morris was a true radical, and his ideas...
- Déjà vu, Stones and bones, Sunspots and destiny, ‘Dr Livingroom, I presume?’, Mosaic funding, A hermit’s life, Leaping to the defence of the church
- Jargon, beauty, the South Downs, a heritage hero, Robin Hood and dragons...
- Allotments, spearing bison, Brookside, Brown's museum, the Olympics, nighthawking...
Indefatigable Attenborough
On Monday, 12 October 2009, Sir David Attenborough participated in the Cambridge University Personal-Histories in Archaeology project. I was there, along with a capacity crowd of over 700 guests, to l...
How does Distance Learning Work?
Lynn Bright, of College-on-the-Net, explains how distance learning works.
Five Top Tips for getting your first job in archaeology
Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, Head of Communications, Wessex Archaeology tells us his 5 top tips for getting your first job in archaeology
The Graduate View
Archaeology has always been a vocation that offered little in the way of job security. Now, in the wake of the recession and subsequent collapse in new builds and with about a fifth of the archaeologi...
London 2010
26 - 28 February, 2010 at the British Museum
Archaeology 2010 will bring you all the latest news and views from the archaeological world in a two day conference at the British Museum. We're excited to ...
Archaeology Festival 2009
Establishing a tradition, this year's Archaeology Festival provided a venue for lively debate, scenic tours and seasonal snow. A tough act to follow!
Archaeology 2008
A major new conference event brought to you by Current Archaeology magazine and the British Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure.
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