Feb 10
The Galway to Ballinasloe N6 road scheme in the Republic of Ireland was 56 km long: metre for metre, one of the largest archaeological projects anywhere in the world. The archaeology found along the scheme has shed new light on the treatment of the dead at crucial stages of Irish history. In the first of our new three part series we assess the evidence. Read more
Marion Ravenwood tells it like it is: straight, no chaser.
The news of Mick Aston’s voluntary retirement from Time Team hit Twitter this morning with all the fury of a woman scorned. Read more
And if you are in the present, thinking about the past: you must be bleedin mental! Read more
This one from the ever brilliant Conor McHale (find more HERE). Read more
Fetch the smelling salts and get us to the fainting couch tout de suite! Read more
Keep abreast of Armageddon this year with this salaciously saucy topless Mayan Calendar! Read more
Love this photo – taken by someone who (worringly it has to be said) calls themselves ‘Shovelbumming.’ Read more
More than 150 years after a 24-year-old Scottish Egyptologist, shipped back what has come to be known as the ‘Rhind Mummy,’ Read more
Caves are one of the most investigated site-types in Yorkshire’s limestone uplands, but also the least understood. Find out more in the final installment of our three part series… Read more
A dramatisation of Thomas Kuhn’s 1970 treatise on the ‘Structure of Scientific Revolutions.’ Read more
Following hot on the heels of archaeologists discovering and excavating a 1991 Ford transit van Read more
And still he wins! This Jones fella’s one bad mother… Read more
Come on now. You’re archaeologists. Don’t sweat it.
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