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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A report by the British Archaeological Jobs Resource (BAJR) suggests that over a third of archaeologists across the UK are “in an unsustainable financial position” and that the sector is embroiled in ...

Archaeologists discovered a site in Wiltshire that contained artefacts from a wide range of civilizations, from the Iron Age to the Roman Empire. A team from Cotswold Archaeology found this site last ...

AMMAN — Environmental archaeology is the interdisciplinary study of past human interactions with the natural world, according to a British archaeologist. “It draws on a suite of disciplines and ...

BRITISH archæology, perhaps, has profited more than any other field of archæological investigation by the recent diversion of interest from the more striking products of a culture to the building up ...

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 ...

Some 440 bronze sculptures are currently being held at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. However it’s been announced they will now be returned to Nigeria, with a plan to display them in a newly ...