King Henry I is said to have died from eating a ‘surfeit of lampreys’, but there is no excess of these eel-like…
In the early days of archaeology, human remains were often treated as an afterthought, deemed unable to tell us much about past…
Bronze age cists were discovered in the Kilmore area of the village in 2015 and 2017, and excavation this year has once…
Between the end of the Roman occupation of Britain and the Norman Conquest, England changed beyond recognition. Rival Anglo-Saxon kingdoms vied for…
We are delighted to announce that Richard Osgood is the winner of this year’s prestigious Archaeologist of the Year award Top honours for…
The Research Project of the Year award was won by ‘Prehistoric pop culture: deciphering the DNA of the Bell Beaker Complex’ – the…
The award for Rescue Project of the Year 2019 was accepted by MOLA Headland Infrastructure for their work along the A14. The…
The Old Stones: a field guide to the megalithic sites of Britain and Ireland wins Current Archaeology’s prestigious Book of the Year…
On 14 November, London’s Temple of Mithras – now known as the ‘London Mithraeum’ – reopened to the public as the first…
For decades, pottery of eastern Mediterranean origin found at 5th- to 7th-century sites in western Britain has been claimed as evidence for…