The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Scientists working in southern Italy have found a "sumptuous" collection of frescoes buried by the eruption at Mount Vesuvius ...

What began as a stack of fragile, century-old mine maps is being transformed into an immersive 3D window into the past by ...

Throughout the symposium, participants will engage with archaeological discoveries, textual studies, geographical analysis, and interdisciplinary explorations that illuminate Scripture in its ancient ...

The Melsonby Hoard has been nominated for a national award by one of the UK’s leading archaeological publications. The hoard, unearthed by experts in our Department of Archaeology, including our ...

Dan Hicks is professor of current archaeology at the University of Oxford and has worked at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum since 2007. He is best known for his polemical study of the Benin Bronzes, The ...

Archaeologist and author Clive Waddington has uncovered intriguing insights into the North East’s distant past in a long series of fascinating digs. Now the graduate of, and later lecturer in, ...

A search for traces of the mythical Merlin in the Scottish Borders and a hunt for illicit hooch in the Highlands are in the running for a prestigious archaeology award. The two community projects ...