Archaeology

China’s heritage industry and the politics of the past are just some topics up for discussion in a series of public heritage seminars this term.

Among the numerous treasures at Cambridge University Library are the private documents of the explorer, John Lewis Burckhardt, who rediscovered Petra...

The traditional image of Neanderthals as gritty people who spent most of their time out hunting might not be entirely accurate, according to a new...

The identity of the winner of the 1880 Epsom Derby – the classic race to be run today - was famously disputed. Now analysis of DNA from the bones of...

Research reconciles competing theories about the origin of the domestic horse.

Extraordinary 7th century discovery on outskirts of Cambridge offers unique insights into the origins of English Christianity.

One of the most important later Bronze Age sites ever discovered in Britain is being excavated near Peterborough, providing a richly detailed, “3D”...

First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge University’s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag...