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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A world-renowned archaeology department is to close despite a campaign to keep it open, it has been confirmed. The move by the University of Sheffield follows a "significant decline" in the number of ...

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 ...

The tooth was unearthed close to the village of Orozman, which is located about 60 miles south-west of Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi. Experts say the find is a major breakthrough that will likely ...