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Archaeology

May 2025

  • White marks on black background with red graphic showing corresponding Greek letter

    X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll

  • four long, narrow wooden rowing boats lined up on a small beach by a slipway in a harbour

    Archaeological project maps historic boat sheds on Isles of Scilly

April 2025

  • Archaeologists working on cleaning the remains of the Ciutadella I wreck in Barcelona

    Archaeologists find wreck of large medieval boat in Barcelona

  • Composite image showing bone fragments with lion bite marks, alongside a Roman relief of a gladiator battling a lion

    Bite marks on York skeleton reveal first evidence of ‘gladiators’ fighting lions

  • Worcester College Oxford Front Quad and Library

    Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals

  • Rex Cowan with diver on a boat

    Rex Cowan obituary

  • Greek vase ‘looted’ in Italy removed from sale by London gallery

  • Weekend
    The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast

  • ‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

  • Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors

  • Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch

  • Other lives
    John McNeill obituary

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Secrets of Success: the church that served a plantation remains a monument of resistance

  • Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb

  • Letter: Donald Gordon obituary

March 2025

  • A wrecked office with smashed furniture and debris strewn on the ground

    New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

    Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing

  • 'Unprecedented' iron age hoard discovered in North Yorkshire – video

    Experts say the discovery could change our understanding of the wealth and status held by people in the north of Britain during the period

    • Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history

    • Anti-plague amulets and IOUs: the excavation that brings Roman London thundering back to life

    • ‘I will spend my life rebuilding’: Gaza’s heritage sites destroyed by war

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