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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The east gate ‘war cemetery’ in 1937: general view from the south. Credit: Society of Antiquaries of London and Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society A new archaeological investigation ...

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 ...

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The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford. Archaeologists are used ...

Welcome to archaeology, anthropology and Classics: a diverse world of degrees with growing employability. However, students might easily overlook opportunities here, because there is no consistency in ...

Two of Lincolnshire’s National Trust properties are taking part in a Festival of Archaeology this month. Hosted by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) and supported by the National Trust, the ...

Michael Dafydd Nevell works for the University Salford. He has worked on a variety of community and archaeology and archaeology research projects funded by local councils and the HLF. He is a Trustee ...

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 ...