Speakers Corner for archaeology? Major new line-up will hold the space for challenging conversations

Are we willing to let history tell the truth? DVIP Speakers Corner will put the question in perspective.

LIVE / Rolling coverage from Bishop Middleham as we unearth a medieval palace

Archaeologists start digging at Pontefract Castle

This October, DigVentures will unearth the castle’s gatehouse and drawbridge pit to find out more about its medieval defences

Archaeologists Ask For Help To Find Lindisfarne’s Lost “Sister Monastery” In Scotland

 A team of archaeologists and history-lovers will begin searching for the ancient monastery established by King Oswald’s sister near Coldingham. Somewhere near the village of Coldingham in Berwickshire lie the remains of an…

How To Decorate Your Easter Egg Like It’s 60,000 BC

DigVentures Heads To East Yorkshire To Investigate Roman And Iron Age Remains

Archaeology team set to investigate nationally-important site in east Yorkshire A team of archaeologists from DigVentures and the Portable Antiquities Scheme will start work at Elmswell Farms, near Driffield, this August to investigate nationally…

10 Photos Taken While Flying Over Iron Age Hillforts Covered in Snow

10 Christmas Cracker Jokes No Serious Archaeologist Will Ever Laugh At…

FOUND: Mysterious Square At Centre Of Avebury Stone Circle

Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious square slap bang in the middle of one of the UK’s most well-known Neolithic monuments The associated standing stones, barrow, and avenues near Avebury, located in Wiltshire in the…

10 Amazing Discoveries Made By Crowdfunded Archaeology in 2016

Wondering what 2017 has in store for archaeology? If the epic discoveries made in 2016 are anything to go by, there’ll be PLENTY to look forward to. In the last year, archaeologists around the…

FREE: Learn To Make 3D Models of Yorkshire’s Ancient Artefacts

STUDENTS! How To Sneak In A Bit Of Extra Fieldwork This April

As someone once famously said: if you want to be a good archaeologist, you have to get out of the library… This April, we can help you make it happen! A proper understanding of…

Cuthbert: The Saint Whose Journey Continued After Death

10 Cakes Every Archaeologist Will Want to Stick Their Trowel Into

Digging up Daleks – Ex-cav-ate! Ex-cav-ate!

The Archaeology of Star Wars

Site Diary: Digging at the Edge of the World

What is it like to dig at the edge of the world? This update from Xosé Gago and the Costa dos Castros project tells it like it is. Here we are, digging at the…

Five Surprising Things You’d Find at an Iron Age Hillfort in Spain

Something that looks like a weapon but isn’t, and something that doesn’t but is… these are just some of the things you might find on a Spanish Iron Age hillfort. From Maiden Castle to…