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One Of The Earliest Human Settlements Yet Known In Scotland – Discovered Jethro in the Bible Understanding the Good Samaritan Parable Guatemalan Cave Holds Evidence of Maya Human Sacrifice Turkish Archaeologists Excavate Theater of Prusias Ad Hypium Near Black Sea Ornate Saxon Pendant Provides New Information About Early Medieval Yorkshire Fieldwork Report: Ofelia Tychon Extraordinary Find: Monumental Relief Of King Ashurbanipal And Deities Unearthed In Ancient City Of Nineveh A Pioneering Study Provides New Insights Into Pregnancy During The Viking Age Egypt’s Grand Museum Finally Set to Open Study Reveals Vast Aztec Obsidian Trade Network Nineteenth-Century Dutch Shipwreck Located in South Australia New Study Redates Famous Schöningen Spears Long-Lost Shipwreck Koning Willem de Tweede Filled With Treasures Discovered By Marine Archaeologists Vast Trade Of Ancient Obsidian Artifacts, Not Just Conquest, Made The Aztecs Powerful The Apostle Peter in Rome Where Noah Landed Earliest Humans Arrived in Sicily 16,500 Years Ago 2,000-Year-Old Stonemason's Tools Discovered in Romanian Quarry Hidden Treasures Buried Beneath Thailand's Oldest Reclining Buddha Statue Ancient Tomb With A Massive False Door Belonging To Prince Waser-If-Re Unearthed In Saqqara, Egypt Rare Ancient Dacian Stonemason’s Toolkit Discovered In Romanian Forest Who Is the Pope? Review: Mount Machaerus The Epic of Gilgamesh What Does the Bible Say About Dogs? Archaeologists Make New Discoveries at Important Sinai Military Site Ancient Mystery Of The Ladies Of Anavlochos: Bronze Age Art Found On Crete Who Were the Carthaginians? House Committee Votes to Sell Off Public Lands Huge Medieval Ship Ciutadella I Found Underground In Barcelona, Spain Britain’s Long-Distance Tin Trade Was A Game-Changer For The Bronze Age Military History Matters 146 The Nine Years War: 1688-1697 The last warrior monarch England’s warrior kings Was it necessary to drop the atom bombs to defeat Japan? Turncoats: When commanders swap sides A new way of war: The road to Appomattox – Part 4: Technological revolution Preserving Chile, Costa Rica, Italy, Morocco, and Vietnam War Classics – The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 MHM Book Awards 2025 War on Film – Warfare 2025 Grant & Fellowship Awardees Introducing the 2025 AIA Fellowship Cohort Operation Downfall: The planned invasions of Japan, 1945-1946 New ASOR-Affiliated Projects 2025 Phillips Payson O’Brien MHM 146 Competition MHM 146 Letters – May Notorious Swedish Warship Vasa gets new support structure Wreck of Second World War bomber discovered off Greek coast Tower of London poppies return to mark VE Day anniversary Mass grave of Roman soldiers found in Vienna linked to ‘catastrophic event’ Jersey exhibition on ‘life after liberation’ Newhaven Fort Saint Petersburg: sacrifice and redemption in the city that defied Hitler Ring of Fire: a new global history of the outbreak of the First World War Chain of Fire: campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1898 Midway: the Pacific War’s most famous battle Celebrations at St Paul’s, VE Day, 8 May 1945 War of Words – ‘Constable’ In Brief Ironwood Forest National Monument May Be Opened to Industry Current Archaeology 423 A Roman landscape revealed : Celebrating 20 years of the Culver Archaeological Project Current Archaeology’s May Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home From gasholders to chic apartments: Tracing the history of the most prominent landmarks in the gasworks industry Go digging! Paradise lost: Rediscovering a forgotten pleasure garden at Attingham Park The Melsonby Hoard: Exploring unprecedented insights into Iron Age Yorkshire Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition CA Letters 423 – May Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s lost treasures Museum news Planning reforms Roman Chester: Excavating the CA archive Building the past: Reconstructing a late Neolithic house from Wyke Down Fortress Study Group UK news in brief Bronze Age ceremonial site identified in Farley Wood ‘Portrait of Lady Jane Grey’ may have been painted during her lifetime New insights into kinship in Neolithic Ireland World news Roman coin hoard discovered in Barton Bendish Reconstructing the face of an Iron Age woman from Dorset Science Notes: Let the sunshine in – analysing levels of Vitamin D in past populations Archaeology Southwest at SAA 2025: Where to Find Us Archaeology Southwest Prepares to Fight Unlawful Grant Termination Protecting Ancestral Lands: Nanbé Owingeh Installs Fence to Safeguard an Ancestral Pueblo In Memoriam: William D. Lipe (1935–2025) AIA Announces New Public Engagement Award In Memoriam: Bill Lipe The Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project AIA Support for the National Endowment for the Humanities New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation SHA Special Publication and Author Perspective 2025 AIA Fellowship Spotlight: John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship 2025 AIA Grant Spotlight: Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment for Archaeology 2024 AIA Grant Spotlight: Site Preservation Grant 2025 AIA Fellowship Spotlight: Olivia James Traveling Fellowship 2025 AIA Grant Spotlight: Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment for Archaeology Spoils of war? CWA 130 – out now “The Peculiar Hellenic Alloy”: Carl Blegen’s Narrative of Greek Racial Development in Context The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis Asserting Control Through Water in the Roman Period: The Evidence from Southern Jordan and the Case of Khirbet al-Khalde Fieldwork at Phrygian Gordion, 2016–2023 The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City Malcolm Bell III (1941–2024) The Reopening of the Museo Nazionale Jatta di Ruvo di Puglia The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine Introducing the 2025 Research Grant Winners CWA Photo of the Year Competition 2025 – Winners Announced Worcester Art Museum Returns Hecht-linked Pots to Italy A Message from the SHA President Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Griffin to Greece Archaeology of Learning in the Little Ice Age Cleveland Museum of Art returns statue linked to Bubon
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One Of The Earliest Human Settlements Yet Known In Scotland – Discovered

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team led by Karen Hardy, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, has discovered one of Scotland's earliest known human populations. Map o

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Published: May 15, 2025

Jethro in the Bible

Jethro in the Bible

Read the article by Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel as it appeared in Bible Review. The post Jethro in the Bible appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society .

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Published: May 15, 2025

Understanding the Good Samaritan Parable

Understanding the Good Samaritan Parable

Who were the Samaritans? Dr. Amy-Jill Levine of Vanderbilt University explains how getting an accurate answer to this question can shed light on how shocking the Good Samaritan parable would have been

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Published: May 15, 2025

Guatemalan Cave Holds Evidence of Maya Human Sacrifice

DOS PILAS, GUATEMALA—In the 1990s, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they entered a cave […] The post Guatemalan Cave Holds Evidence of Maya Human Sacrifice appeared first on Archaeology Mag

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Published: May 15, 2025

Turkish Archaeologists Excavate Theater of Prusias Ad Hypium Near Black Sea

DÜZCE, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that after six years, archaeologists have completed excavation of the […] The post Turkish Archaeologists Excavate Theater of Prusias Ad Hypium Near Black Sea

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Published: May 15, 2025

Ornate Saxon Pendant Provides New Information About Early Medieval Yorkshire

LEEDS, ENGLAND—An ornate pendant recently unearthed by a metal detectorist near Leeds is another new […] The post Ornate Saxon Pendant Provides New Information About Early Medieval Yorkshire appeared

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Published: May 15, 2025

Fieldwork Report: Ofelia Tychon

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Published: May 14, 2025

Extraordinary Find: Monumental Relief Of King Ashurbanipal And Deities Unearthed In Ancient City Of Nineveh

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working in Iraq have made a remarkable discovery in the throne room of King Ashurbanipal's North Palace in the ancient city of Nineveh. They uncovered si

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Published: May 14, 2025

A Pioneering Study Provides New Insights Into Pregnancy During The Viking Age

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scholars specializing in Viking studies from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have conducted an examination of pregnancy during the Viking Age. Their rese

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Published: May 14, 2025

Egypt’s Grand Museum Finally Set to Open

Egypt’s Grand Museum Finally Set to Open

The Grand Egyptian Museum Cairo, Egypt visit-gem.com The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is finally open to the public … sort of. After a series of […] The post Egypt’s Grand Museum Finally Set to Open ap

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Published: May 14, 2025

Study Reveals Vast Aztec Obsidian Trade Network

Study Reveals Vast Aztec Obsidian Trade Network

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—Artisans in the Aztec, or Mexica, Empire used obsidian to make a variety […] The post Study Reveals Vast Aztec Obsidian Trade Network appeared first on Archaeology Magazine .

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Published: May 14, 2025

Nineteenth-Century Dutch Shipwreck Located in South Australia

Nineteenth-Century Dutch Shipwreck Located in South Australia

ROBE, AUSTRALIA—Australian National Maritime Museum announced that a team of archaeological divers believe they have […] The post Nineteenth-Century Dutch Shipwreck Located in South Australia appeared

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Published: May 14, 2025

New Study Redates Famous Schöningen Spears

SCHÖNINGEN, GERMANY—Cutting-edge technology has been used to redate the world-famous Schöningen spears that were discovered […] The post New Study Redates Famous Schöningen Spears appeared first on Ar

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Published: May 14, 2025

Long-Lost Shipwreck Koning Willem de Tweede Filled With Treasures Discovered By Marine Archaeologists

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 800-ton Dutch merchant sailing ship, Koning Willem de Tweede, was lost during a storm in 1857. Recently, marine archaeologists announced the discovery of its ship

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Published: May 13, 2025

Vast Trade Of Ancient Obsidian Artifacts, Not Just Conquest, Made The Aztecs Powerful

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Aztecs, also called the Mexicas, were renowned for their prowess in warfare and conquests. However, the economic networks, rituals, and political influence of the M

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Published: May 13, 2025

The Apostle Peter in Rome

The Apostle Peter in Rome

Brown University Religious Studies professor Nicola Denzey Lewis answers frequently asked questions about the apostle Peter. Denzey Lewis appears in the CNN series Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery,

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Published: May 13, 2025

Where Noah Landed

Where Noah Landed

Still another group is looking for Mt. Ararat, where the Bible says Noah landed after the flood. This group is looking to confirm the tradition that nearby Mt. Cudi (Judi Dagh) is really Mt. Ararat, a

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Published: May 13, 2025

Earliest Humans Arrived in Sicily 16,500 Years Ago

Earliest Humans Arrived in Sicily 16,500 Years Ago

ACQUEDOLCI, SICILY—According to the Greek Reporter, archaeologists have discovered the earliest known evidence of human […] The post Earliest Humans Arrived in Sicily 16,500 Years Ago appeared first o

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Published: May 13, 2025

2,000-Year-Old Stonemason's Tools Discovered in Romanian Quarry

2,000-Year-Old Stonemason's Tools Discovered in Romanian Quarry

MǍGURA CǍLANULUI, ROMANIA—Almost 2,000 years ago, a stonemason working in a limestone quarry near the […] The post 2,000-Year-Old Stonemason's Tools Discovered in Romanian Quarry appeared first on Arc

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Published: May 13, 2025

Hidden Treasures Buried Beneath Thailand's Oldest Reclining Buddha Statue

Hidden Treasures Buried Beneath Thailand's Oldest Reclining Buddha Statue

WAT DHAMMACHAK SEMARAM, THAILAND—The 1,300-year-old temple of Wat Dhammachak Semaram in Sung Noen is famous […] The post Hidden Treasures Buried Beneath Thailand's Oldest Reclining Buddha Statue appea

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Published: May 13, 2025

Ancient Tomb With A Massive False Door Belonging To Prince Waser-If-Re Unearthed In Saqqara, Egypt

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working in Saqqara, Egypt, have announced the discovery of the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, son of King Userkaf, the founding monarch of Egypt's Fifth D

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Published: May 12, 2025

Rare Ancient Dacian Stonemason’s Toolkit Discovered In Romanian Forest

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A local villager has uncovered rare ancient artifacts in the Romanian forest near the Magura Calanului quarry. The discovery was made accidentally on the hill's western

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Published: May 12, 2025

Who Is the Pope?

Who Is the Pope?

With the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church has had 267 widely acknowledged popes in its nearly 2,000-year history. The head of the […] The post Who Is the Pope? appeared first on Biblical

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Published: May 12, 2025

Review: Mount Machaerus

Review: Mount Machaerus

Mount Machaerus An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan By Győző Vörös (Amman: The […] The post Review: Mount Machaerus ap

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Published: May 12, 2025

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian literary work that tells a fantastic story of King Gilgamesh’s failed quest for immortality. Set in early […] The post The Epic of Gilgamesh appeared f

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Published: May 11, 2025

What Does the Bible Say About Dogs?

What Does the Bible Say About Dogs?

A survey of dogs’ portrayals in ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures shows that far from being perceived as “unclean,” dogs served as companions, guard dogs, sheep dogs, hunters, and—surpri

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Published: May 10, 2025

Archaeologists Make New Discoveries at Important Sinai Military Site

Archaeologists Make New Discoveries at Important Sinai Military Site

TELL ABU SAIFI, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that an Egyptian archaeological mission under the auspices of […] The post Archaeologists Make New Discoveries at Important Sinai Military Site appeared firs

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Published: May 10, 2025

Ancient Mystery Of The Ladies Of Anavlochos: Bronze Age Art Found On Crete

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Imagine unlocking the secrets of ancient Greece with today's cutting-edge technology. At the University of Cincinnati, Classics researcher and Assistant Professor Flo

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Published: May 09, 2025

Who Were the Carthaginians?

Who Were the Carthaginians?

For much of the first millennium BCE, the Carthaginian merchant empire dominated large swaths of the Mediterranean. But who were the Carthaginians? Carthage, located near […] The post Who Were the Car

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Published: May 09, 2025

House Committee Votes to Sell Off Public Lands

House Committee Votes to Sell Off Public Lands

Dear Friends, The assault on all we hold near and dear continues, led by an unelected shadow government hired by the very people who howled about the presence of a sinister and so-called “deep state.”

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Published: May 09, 2025

Huge Medieval Ship Ciutadella I Found Underground In Barcelona, Spain

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been captivated by the recent discovery of a Medieval ship that had been hidden for 500 years. Accidentally unearthed by the Barcelona City Counci

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Published: May 08, 2025

Britain’s Long-Distance Tin Trade Was A Game-Changer For The Bronze Age

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study revealed that 3,300 years ago, tin mined in southwest Britain was a crucial resource for major Bronze Age civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean, loc

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Published: May 08, 2025

Military History Matters 146

Endgame in Japan: World War II’s devastating final act Operation Downfall: the planned invasions of Japan, 1945-1946 The last warrior monarch: William III and the Nine Years War What makes commanders

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Published: May 08, 2025

The Nine Years War: 1688-1697

Graham Goodlad analyses Britain’s role in the long-running struggle against French domination of the Low Countries.

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Published: May 08, 2025

The last warrior monarch

Graham Goodlad reviews the military career of a ruler who gained the British throne in a bloodless coup but had to fight to retain it and then analyses in detail his part in the battle against French

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Published: May 08, 2025

England’s warrior kings

Infographics: Calum Henderson

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Published: May 08, 2025

Was it necessary to drop the atom bombs to defeat Japan?

In the last part of our series marking the 80th anniversary of World War II’s final months, Taylor Downing asks whether the Allies had any choice but to use their devastating new weapon to end the war

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Published: May 08, 2025

Turncoats: When commanders swap sides

In the first of three articles about celebrated military figures who changed allegiances, Nigel Jones looks at shifting loyalties in English civil conflicts.

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Published: May 08, 2025

A new way of war: The road to Appomattox – Part 4: Technological revolution

In the final part of our series on the American Civil War, Fred Chiaventone examines the impact of devastating new weaponry and technology that emerged courtesy of the Industrial Revolution.

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Published: May 08, 2025

Preserving Chile, Costa Rica, Italy, Morocco, and Vietnam

Your experience matters! Join our letter writing campaign to save a place you love. February’s meeting to discuss recent requests from Chile, Italy, and Morocco to renew their bilateral agreements […]

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Published: May 07, 2025

War Classics – The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783

Nick Spenceley reconsiders Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.

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Published: May 07, 2025

MHM Book Awards 2025

The ballots have been cast, the votes counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book Awards. We curated a list of 2024’s best military history titles, and

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Published: May 07, 2025

War on Film – Warfare

Taylor Downing reviews the latest film releases.

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Published: May 06, 2025

2025 Grant & Fellowship Awardees

The post 2025 Grant & Fellowship Awardees appeared first on American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) .

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Published: May 06, 2025

Introducing the 2025 AIA Fellowship Cohort

Here at the AIA we are unleashing the power of archaeology to provide a better understanding of the past and present and to create a brighter future. The 2025 Fellowship […] The post Introducing the 2

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Published: May 06, 2025

Operation Downfall: The planned invasions of Japan, 1945-1946

What would have happened if Japan hadn’t surrendered? David Porter examines the Allied plans for the largest amphibious assault of all time.

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Published: May 06, 2025

New ASOR-Affiliated Projects 2025

The post New ASOR-Affiliated Projects 2025 appeared first on American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) .

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Published: May 05, 2025

Phillips Payson O’Brien

The American-born writer and academic Phillips Payson O’Brien on an admirable dictator, and his fascination with failure.

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Published: May 05, 2025

MHM 146 Competition

Put your military history knowledge to the test with our competition.

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Published: May 05, 2025

MHM 146 Letters – May

Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.

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Published: May 05, 2025

Notorious Swedish Warship Vasa gets new support structure

A project has begun to preserve the 400-year-old Swedish warship Vasa, which notoriously sank on her maiden voyage. A new metal structure is being installed to support the hull of the ship,

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Published: May 04, 2025

Wreck of Second World War bomber discovered off Greek coast

A Second World War bomber which lay at the bottom of the Aegean Sea for more than 80 years has been rediscovered. The wreck was found last year by specialist divers off

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Published: May 04, 2025

Tower of London poppies return to mark VE Day anniversary

A new display of ceramic poppies has opened at the Tower of London to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The installation, which opened on 6

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Published: May 04, 2025

Mass grave of Roman soldiers found in Vienna linked to ‘catastrophic event’

An ‘unprecedented’ mass grave of Roman soldiers has been uncovered in Vienna. The find was made last autumn by construction workers who were renovating a football pitch in the Simmering district of

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Published: May 04, 2025

Jersey exhibition on ‘life after liberation’

A new exhibition is exploring how Jersey recovered after five years of Nazi occupation. Life after Liberation: the road to recovery is part of the island’s celebrations to mark 80 years since

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Published: May 04, 2025

Newhaven Fort

Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Carly Jones.

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Published: May 04, 2025

Saint Petersburg: sacrifice and redemption in the city that defied Hitler

REVIEW BY CALUM HENDERSON St Petersburg has an immensely dark history. Built largely by slave labour on the orders of Peter the Great in the early 1700s, it has endured more than

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Published: May 03, 2025

Ring of Fire: a new global history of the outbreak of the First World War

REVIEW BY JONATHAN EATON In recent years, historians have increasingly sought to understand major conflicts from a genuinely global perspective. While this approach has perhaps always been synonymous

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Published: May 03, 2025

Chain of Fire: campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1898

REVIEW BY PATRICK MERCER If, as a youngster, you enjoyed those wonderful films Khartoum, The Four Feathers and Young Winston, you were not alone. I sat as transfixed as the spear that

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Published: May 03, 2025

Midway: the Pacific War’s most famous battle

REVIEW BY MARK DeSANTIS The Battle of Midway in early June 1942 is arguably the most significant naval encounter of the Second World War, and easily one of the most notable battles

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Published: May 03, 2025

Celebrations at St Paul’s, VE Day, 8 May 1945

In this image, St Paul’s Cathedral is dramatically illuminated on the night of VE Day, 8 May 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. Sir Christopher Wren’s

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Published: May 03, 2025

War of Words – ‘Constable’

With Marc DeSantis

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Published: May 03, 2025

In Brief

MHM’s round-up of the latest military history releases.

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Published: May 03, 2025

Ironwood Forest National Monument May Be Opened to Industry

Ironwood Forest National Monument May Be Opened to Industry

Dear Friends, It has been a ridiculously busy couple of weeks! At this time last week most of our staff were headed to Denver for the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I am

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Published: May 02, 2025

Current Archaeology 423

Revealing a Roman landscape: 20 years of the Culver Archaeological Project The Melsonby Hoard: exploring unprecedented insights into Iron Age Yorkshire Paradise lost: rediscovering Attingham Park’s fo

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Published: May 01, 2025

A Roman landscape revealed : Celebrating 20 years of the Culver Archaeological Project

Two decades of excavations in East Sussex farmland have uncovered the remains of an unusual enclosed settlement linking the Roman road network with the River Ouse. Rob Wallace and David Millum explain

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Published: May 01, 2025

Current Archaeology’s May Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home

There are lots of great archaeological and historical events and activities coming up over the next few months, including exhibitions, festivals, and conferences. Or, if you would prefer to get your h

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Published: May 01, 2025

From gasholders to chic apartments: Tracing the history of the most prominent landmarks in the gasworks industry

The system whereby coal was heated and the resulting gases purified, stored, and distributed to factories, street lamps, public buildings, and, in due course, to every home was developed in the UK in

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Published: April 30, 2025

Go digging!

Following on from CA 422, this selection of summer digging opportunities includes projects in Aberdeenshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Nottinghamshire.

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Published: April 30, 2025

Paradise lost: Rediscovering a forgotten pleasure garden at Attingham Park

Recent archaeological research in the grounds of a Shropshire stately home has added a surprising new chapter to the estate’s story. Viviana Caroli and Nigel Baker explain more.

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Published: April 30, 2025

The Melsonby Hoard: Exploring unprecedented insights into Iron Age Yorkshire

One of the largest Iron Age hoards ever found in the UK was recently unveiled. Comprising hundreds of metal items, its contents are shedding brilliant light on this period of Yorkshire’s past, reveali

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Published: April 30, 2025

Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition

A recently opened experience in London is using virtual-reality technology to explore the life and times of one of ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaohs, as Carly Hilts reports.

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Published: April 29, 2025

CA Letters 423 – May

World’s oldest waterworks? Chris Catling, in his excellent piece on those temples of engineering, the waterworks (CA 421), refers to a Boulton and Watt beam engine at Kew dated 1820 as being

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Published: April 29, 2025

Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s lost treasures

A new exhibition showcasing hundreds of artefacts recovered from the banks of the River Thames sheds illuminating light on London’s long history. Carly Hilts visited the displays at London Museum Dock

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Published: April 29, 2025

Museum news

The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.

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Published: April 29, 2025

Planning reforms

The Westminster Government has published its revised National Planning Policy Framework amid a flurry of boosterish phrases about ‘backing builders not blockers’, ‘unleashing billions in economic grow

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Published: April 28, 2025

Roman Chester: Excavating the CA archive

Roman Chester – Deva Victrix – is one of the unquestioned ‘great sites’ of Roman Britain. This was a major military centre from its late 1st-century AD origins through to its abandonment in the late 4

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Published: April 28, 2025

Building the past: Reconstructing a late Neolithic house from Wyke Down

The newest archaeological reconstruction to be unveiled at Butser Ancient Farm is a late Neolithic house, based on a structure whose 5,000-year-old footprint was excavated in Dorset. CA visited the la

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Published: April 28, 2025

Fortress Study Group

Formed in 1975 (and thus celebrating its first half-century this year), the Fortress Study Group (FSG) is devoted to the study and preservation of artillery fortifications. While early examples of the

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Published: April 28, 2025

UK news in brief

Rare Roman coin on display at Trimontium Museum An aureus – a Roman gold coin – has recently been put on display in the Trimontium Museum. Discovered at Newstead, in the Scottish

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Published: April 27, 2025

Bronze Age ceremonial site identified in Farley Wood

Excavations in Derbyshire have revealed that an apparently solitary standing stone in Farley Wood is in fact part of a larger ceremonial complex dating to the early Bronze Age. Standing 2m (6.6ft)

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Published: April 27, 2025

‘Portrait of Lady Jane Grey’ may have been painted during her lifetime

Recent research on a portrait believed to depict Lady Jane Grey has revealed that the painting may be the only surviving image of the ‘Nine Day Queen’ that dates to her lifetime.

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Published: April 27, 2025

New insights into kinship in Neolithic Ireland

A recently published study has shed new light on the ways in which kinship was tied to monuments from Ireland in the Neolithic period, suggesting that biological relationships and social status were

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Published: April 27, 2025

World news

New light on Danish sun stones Hundreds of stone plaquettes from two Neolithic enclosure sites on the Danish island of Bornholm have been linked to the eruption of a volcano almost 5,000

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Published: April 27, 2025

Roman coin hoard discovered in Barton Bendish

A coin hoard spanning more than 200 years of Roman history has been found near the village of Barton Bendish in Norfolk. Discovered by metal-detectorists, the 16 coins are all silver denarii

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Published: April 27, 2025

Reconstructing the face of an Iron Age woman from Dorset

The face and head of an Iron Age woman whose remains were discovered in Dorset’s Kimmeridge Bay 25 years ago have been reconstructed by an MSc Bioarchaeology student at Bournemouth University. The

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Published: April 27, 2025

Science Notes: Let the sunshine in – analysing levels of Vitamin D in past populations

As we move into warmer months, the words ‘I’m going to go out for some Vitamin D’ are beginning to make their appearance in conversation. Vitamin D is essential for bone growth,

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Published: April 27, 2025

Archaeology Southwest at SAA 2025: Where to Find Us

Sara Anderson, Director of Outreach Banner image: R0uge, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (April 23, 2025)—As we head to the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting in Denver this week, I

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Published: April 23, 2025

Archaeology Southwest Prepares to Fight Unlawful Grant Termination

DOGE-rescinded award supported regional nonprofit’s collaborative project with Tribes to document culturally important animal and plant species Tucson, Ariz. (April 22, 2025)—On April 2, Tucson-based

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Published: April 22, 2025

Protecting Ancestral Lands: Nanbé Owingeh Installs Fence to Safeguard an Ancestral Pueblo

Protecting Ancestral Lands: Nanbé Owingeh Installs Fence to Safeguard an Ancestral Pueblo

Sean O’Meara and Michael Spears, Principal Investigators at MOS Research, LLC (May 1, 2025)—Atop a windswept mesa nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, opening onto sweeping view

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Published: April 18, 2025

In Memoriam: William D. Lipe (1935–2025)

In Memoriam: William D. Lipe (1935–2025)

Dear Friends, Late yesterday, the New York Times posted a story entitled Tucson, Ariz: Western Skies and Competitive Home Prices. In it, and in another column last fall, columnist and Tucson native Ab

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Published: April 18, 2025

AIA Announces New Public Engagement Award

The AIA’s Outreach and Education Committee invites nominations for the inaugural Archaeological Institute of America Public Engagement Award. This award recognizes the broad and important range of out

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Published: April 15, 2025

In Memoriam: Bill Lipe

In Memoriam: Bill Lipe

Particular to Preserve The Life and Legacy of William D. Lipe R. E. Burrillo, Archaeology Southwest Research Associate (April 14, 2025)—In 2014, I attended the annual meeting of the Society for Americ

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Published: April 15, 2025

The Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project

The Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project

R. E. Burrillo, Archaeology Southwest Research Associate Do not distribute or reproduce without permission. The backstory behind the Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project (or Glen Canyon Project

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Published: April 15, 2025

AIA Support for the National Endowment for the Humanities

The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is deeply concerned about recent news of funding cuts and staff reductions at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The mission of the […] The

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Published: April 12, 2025

New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation

New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation

Dear Friends, Well, last Thursday, April 3, after I wrote to you, we received a uniquely sourced, strangely formatted, poorly written e-mail. Ostensibly (see below) from the federal government, it was

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Published: April 12, 2025

SHA Special Publication and Author Perspective

SHA Special Publication and Author Perspective

By Mary L. Maniery, PAR Environmental Services, Inc., President; SHA Co-Publications Associate Editor Wreck Divers & Archaeologists: A History of Maritime Archaeology in California (2024), Thomas N. L

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Published: April 04, 2025

2025 AIA Fellowship Spotlight: John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship

To celebrate our 2025 Fellowship recipients, we contacted our winners to learn about their projects and and share their unique experiences in the world of archaeology. We’re thrilled to announce […] T

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Published: April 02, 2025

2025 AIA Grant Spotlight: Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment for Archaeology

2025 AIA Grant Spotlight: Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment for Archaeology

To celebrate our 2025 Grant recipients, we contacted our winners to learn about their projects and and share their unique experiences in the world of archaeology. We’re thrilled to announce […] The po

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Published: April 02, 2025

2024 AIA Grant Spotlight: Site Preservation Grant

To celebrate our 2024-2025 Grant recipients, we contacted our winners to learn about their projects and and share their unique experiences in the world of archaeology. We’re thrilled to announce […] T

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Published: March 27, 2025

2025 AIA Fellowship Spotlight: Olivia James Traveling Fellowship

To celebrate our 2025 Fellowship recipients, we contacted our winners to learn about their projects and and share their unique experiences in the world of archaeology. We’re thrilled to announce […] T

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Published: March 25, 2025

2025 AIA Grant Spotlight: Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment for Archaeology

To celebrate our 2025 Grant recipients, we contacted our winners to learn about their projects and and share their unique experiences in the world of archaeology. We’re thrilled to announce […] The po

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Published: March 20, 2025

Spoils of war?

Spoils of war?

A cache of Roman and British coins found in the Netherlands seems to be associated with the emperor Claudius’ invasion of Britain in AD 43. Study of the hoard is shedding new light on the circumstance

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Published: March 20, 2025

CWA 130 – out now

CWA 130 – out now

A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by Rome and a powerful ruler in Britain: Cunobelin. This e

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Published: March 20, 2025

“The Peculiar Hellenic Alloy”: Carl Blegen’s Narrative of Greek Racial Development in Context

In two short publications from the early 1940s, Carl Blegen characterized the development of prehistoric culture in Greece as a continuous process of racial mixing that laid the foundations for classi

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Published: March 19, 2025

The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis

Of the 12 cities that were active in Cyprus during the Roman Imperial period, current archaeological data indicates that gladiatorial and related spectacles were held only in Paphos, Salamis, and Kour

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Published: March 19, 2025

Asserting Control Through Water in the Roman Period: The Evidence from Southern Jordan and the Case of Khirbet al-Khalde

This article examines water management and control by the Roman army in arid environments, with a focus on southern Jordan. It presents the results of an aqueduct survey at Khirbet al-Khalde (Wadi al-

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Published: March 19, 2025

Fieldwork at Phrygian Gordion, 2016–2023

This article presents the results of the last eight seasons of work at Gordion in west central Türkiye, focusing primarily on architectural conservation, excavation, and remote sensing on the Citadel

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Published: March 19, 2025

The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City

The rock-cut Midas Monument at Midas City, about 150 km west of Gordion, appears to reproduce the kind of megarons that were in operation in Iron Age Phrygia. In a 2023 article in the AJA, Geoffrey Su

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Published: March 19, 2025

Malcolm Bell III (1941–2024)

The post Malcolm Bell III (1941–2024) appeared first on American Journal of Archaeology .

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Published: March 19, 2025

The Reopening of the Museo Nazionale Jatta di Ruvo di Puglia

The Museo Nazionale Jatta in Ruvo di Puglia reopened late in 2023 following a two-year closure for work on the refurbishment of the galleries in the 19th-century Palazzo Jatta and the reinstallation o

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Published: March 19, 2025

The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe

The post The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe appeared first on American Journal of Archaeology .

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Published: March 19, 2025

Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe

The post Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe appeared first on American Journal of Archaeology .

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Published: March 19, 2025

Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine

The post Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine appeared first on American Journal of Archaeology .

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Published: March 19, 2025

Introducing the 2025 Research Grant Winners

Here at the AIA we are unleashing the power of archaeology to provide a better understanding of the past and present and to create a brighter future. Meet this year’s […] The post Introducing the 2025

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Published: March 19, 2025

CWA Photo of the Year Competition 2025 – Winners Announced

CWA Photo of the Year Competition 2025 – Winners Announced

We have had a brilliant selection of entries for this year’s photo competition, with images that have taken us on a journey through history and around the world. The post CWA Photo of the Year Competi

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Published: March 07, 2025

Worcester Art Museum Returns Hecht-linked Pots to Italy

Worcester Art Museum Returns Hecht-linked Pots to Italy

Photo: Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum has returned two Attic pots to Italy; they are now back on loan to the museum (" Worcester Art Museum Secures Landmark Cultural Cooperation Agreeme

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Published: March 05, 2025

A Message from the SHA President

Dear Colleagues: I am writing to you at a challenging time for historical archaeology. As you know, the Society for Historical Archaeology is an international organization dedicated to promoting schol

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Published: March 04, 2025

Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Griffin to Greece

Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Griffin to Greece

In 1972 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a bronze griffin head that was "said to have been found in Olympia" (Bothmer), specifically in the river bed of the Kladeos near to the Gymnasium (inv.

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Published: February 26, 2025

Archaeology of Learning in the Little Ice Age

Archaeology of Learning in the Little Ice Age

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Greenland and the US Dept. of Education have been in the news recently, linked by expressions o

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Published: February 18, 2025

Cleveland Museum of Art returns statue linked to Bubon

Cleveland Museum of Art returns statue linked to Bubon

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed that the bronze figure acquired in 1986 will be returned to Türkiye. Scientific tests on soil samples appear to confirm that the

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Published: February 15, 2025