AINA

The British School of Archaeology in Iraq

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 ...
Ancient Origins

3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Papyrus Reignites Debate Over Nephilim

Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...
Durham University

Melsonby Hoard wins Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of The Year

The teamwork behind the discovery of the Melsonby Hoard has been recognised with a national award from one of the UK’s ...
Hyperallergic

Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology

Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source crowdsourcing platform called MicroPasts is looking to involve online amateurs in ...
Opinion

A duty of care to human remains

Letter: Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz and Prof Sarah Tarlow respond to an article on ethical questions about remains from overseas in UK museums ...
Artnet

An Archaeology Institute Is Fighting the British Museum, Demanding Access to Make Digital Scans of the Parthenon Marbles

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

BRITISH ARCHEOLOGY`S NEW WONDERS SHOWN

In a temporary case at the British Museum is a section of a wooden bridge so cunningly made that its whole 1.2-mile length ”could have been fitted together in a single day.” It is 6,000 years old.
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

British archaeologists find ancient city of Imet in Egypt's delta

A British archaeological mission from the University of Manchester unearthed the ruins of the ancient city of Imet at Tell al-Faraon in Egypt's Sharqia Governorate. The discovery includes remains of ...
The Conversation

Austerity and house building boom mean British archaeology is in severe danger

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Archaeology of coastal British Columbia : essays in honour of Professor Philip M. Hobler / edited by Roy L. Carlson

"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 ...
Hyperallergic

Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology

Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source crowdsourcing platform called MicroPasts is looking to involve online amateurs in ...