The Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) has filed a freedom of information request to the British Museum after the London museum refused to grant the institute permission to make a 3-D scan of the ...

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 ...

A collection of artefacts showing the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire nearly 350,000 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This volume originated from a symposium on Northwest Coast archaeology held at SFU on October 27, 2001 ... in conjunction with the annual BC Archaeology Forum"--Pref. Long-term continuity in central ...