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HOUSTON, TEXAS—Houstonia Magazine reports that a team of researchers and volunteers led by archaeologist Doug Boyd of Prewitt & Associates excavated areas of the site of Frost Town, a nineteenth-century working-class community located in what is…

A rare wooden platform has been found at Bouldnor Cliff – a Mesolithic site that lies 11m underwater in the Solent, just east of the Isle of Wight. With around 60 pieces making up the structure, this discovery – along with other pieces of timber…

The Museum of London has acquired a much loved and used silver plate that belonged to Samuel Pepys Britain’s most famous diarist, Samuel Pepys, is well known for his love of good food and his diaries attest to his reputation as a seventeenth century…

One of the favourites to scoop the Hertfordshire Association of Museums Object of the Year award, the allure of a humble 83-year-old toilet roll from Letchworth is explained by Collections officer Sophie Walter of the Garden City Collection When we…

This latest column from Joe Flatman looks at CA's coverage of Chedworth Roman Villa, discussing the preservation and presentation of the site over the years. The post Excavating the CA archive: Chedworth Roman Villa appeared first on Current…

The most-famous date in English history is said to be 1066 – but what was the immediate impact of the Norman Conquest? We explore a recently discovered coin hoard, the largest of its kind, buried in Somerset c.1068. What can it tell us about the…

The most-famous date in English history is said to be 1066 – but what was the immediate impact of the Norman Conquest? Our cover story explores a recently discovered coin hoard, the largest of its kind, buried in Somerset c.1068. What can it tell us…

NAPLES, ITALY—Live Science reports that an inscription discovered at a tomb in Pompeii in 2017 has been translated by Massimo Osanna, director general of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. The text describes the tomb occupant’s coming-of-age party…

ALEXANDRIA, SCOTLAND—Forestry and Land Scotland archaeologist Matt Ritchie thinks two long, narrow buildings built deep in Loch Ard Forest in the late eighteenth century may have been illicit distilleries, according to a BBC News report. Richie and…

ATHENS, GREECE—According to the Greek Reporter, recent excavation of the first floor of the so-called Zominthos palace, a large, two-story Minoan structure situated on a plateau near Crete’s Mount Ida, has uncovered a possible storage room and a…

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The East London Advertiser, a team of researchers from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) is investigating the site of the Boar’s Head Playhouse in the Whitechapel district of East London. Historic…

Senate House, London28-29 February 2020 Current Archaeology Live! 2020 will be returning to the University of London’s Senate House, on 28-29 February (Friday/Saturday). We will be hearing from the foremost archaeological experts on the latest finds…

Egbert was here! Name discovered and deciphered from a runic inscription on the spectacular Galloway Hoard Perhaps more than anything else in the hypothesis-filled world of archaeology, burial hoards invite the most conjecture. What do they mean?…

The portrait parade of Tudor monarchs and nobles at Hever Castle and Gardens gets even more impressive with the addition of an unseen Richard III In late 16th and early 17th century England, the corridors and long galleries of noble houses were…

The collection of the problematic Sir Stamford Raffles is re-examined at the British Museum Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 – 1826) was many things; most famously the ‘founder’ of modern Singapore, an author, explorer, diplomat, co-founder of…

The collection of the problematic Sir Stamford Raffles is re-examined at the British Museum Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 – 1826) was many things; most famously the ‘founder’ of modern Singapore, an author, explorer, diplomat, co-founder of…

TAUNTON, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, radiocarbon dating has revealed that some of the human remains found in two boxes stored at the Somerset Heritage Centre are more than 9,000 years old. Osteoarchaeologist Sharon Clough of Cotswold…

TALLINN, ESTONIA—ERR News reports that pieces of some 100 Viking swords and spearheads dating to the middle of the tenth century A.D. were found in two caches placed about 260 feet apart along a remote Viking trade route near Estonia’s northwestern…

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—A new study has carefully analyzed soil from different levels of Siberia’s Denisova Cave for microscopic traces of coprolites, bone, charcoal, ash, and stone flakes over a period of 300,000 years, Cosmos reports. Denisovans are…

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