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Archaeology

August 2026

  • An ammonite at the fossil graveyard at Lyme Regis in Dorset.

    Protect fossils from hammer-wielding tourists

  • Olga Soffer - professor of anthropology Photo courtesy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Bill Wiegand

    Olga Soffer obituary

  • A curled ammonite fossil visible within a large rock near the sea front

    Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP

  • King Tutankhamun's sarcophagus sits in his burial chamber, walls covered in painted hieroglyphics

    ‘Real mummy’s curse’: health warning over growing trade in mummified human remains

  • Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily

  • Ancient Roman pottery discovered in shipwreck off Sicilian coast – video

    Video0:28

  • Brief letters
    A film odyssey with a built-in interval

July 2026

  • Steven Morris inside the Stonehenge circle

    Magic circle: Stonehenge offers lucky visitors 20 minutes alone in monument

  • A silhouette of a figure wearing ceremonial decorations made of elongated bone or tooth pieces around the neck and leg cuffs

    The Guardian view on ancient DNA: a female shaman exposes our flawed assumptions about the past

  • Woman with white scarf on head wearing big gold medallions on ears

    Treasure as trinkets: Zendaya’s earrings renew debate on ownership of ancient artefacts

  • Zendaya in a white sleeveless dress with golden disc-shaped earrings

    Zendaya faces backlash for wearing ancient Iranian jewellery at Odyssey event

  • Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman

  • Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert

June 2026

  • A reproduction of the great deer of Altamira cave. Photograph: Jesus de Fuensanta/Getty Images/iStockphoto

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings – podcast

    Podcast32:17
  • Phil Harding and Matt Leivers stood in front of one of the standing stones at Stonehenge

    Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, say archaeologists

  • close up of a gloved hand holding a musket ball

    Archaeologists find musket balls and fort linked to Battle of Bunker Hill

  • A skull

    Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak

  • Israeli attack on Tyre in Lebanon kills eight as evacuation ordered for Christian quarter

  • Musket balls and a burnt hull: evidence of real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas

  • Somerset detectorist strikes gold with ‘spectacular’ Roman ring find

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