Archaeology
Explore Britain's rich archaeological heritage with news and features about the latest digs and finds together with events and web resources collected from hundreds of museums and heritage sites.
Museums at Night Report: A twilight tour of the second motte of Lewes Castle
Museums at Night wouldn't be complete without a night-time tour of a medieval castle. Lewes Castle in East Sussex duly obliged, Culture24's Jenni Davdson went along for the ride.
RAF Museum begins task of rescuing the last German Dornier bomber from the seabed
The RAF Museum has begun the delicate process of lifting the last remaining World War Two Luftwaffe Dornier bomber from its 1940 resting place beneath the Kent sea.
Forensic reconstruction of Richard III's head to appear at Yorkshire Museum this summer
In what may be the most accurate representation of the King yet, a head based on scans carried out by Leicester Royal Infirmary will form a cranial summer centrepiece in York.
The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for May 2013
From a Bank Holiday party in Cambridge to the inspiring Museums at Night and the opening of the £27 million Mary Rose Museum, here are our history highlights this month.
Jets turned off after three decades as Mary Rose Museum prepares to dazzle Portsmouth
The continuous spray which has protected the timbers of the Mary Rose for three decades has been turned off ahead of a five-year drying-out process for the famous ship.
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum: Why is it so popular?
Ruth Hazard manages to get herself into the British Museum's hugely popular blockbuster Pompeii exhibition to find out exactly what all the fuss is about.
10,000 Temple of Mithras discoveries draw comparisons with Pompeii in Roman London
Experts from Museum of London Archaeology say thousands of "beautifully preserved" remains in London could transform our understanding of Roman Britain.
Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East at The Queen's Gallery
Edinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse showcases artefacts and photos from the Prince of Wales' unusual four-month tour of the Middle East in 1962.
Curator's Choice: Amber Druce picks a tomb painting from Pharaoh: Reborn
Dozens of watercolour recordings of tomb decorations from Ancient Egypt are about to go on show at the city's Museum and Art Gallery. We find out about one of them.
Culture24/7: Tom Daley, Dorothy Wordsworth and the Prince of Wales make History
There are Secrets of the Royal Bedchambers and Olympic flashbacks in London. It's also Beamish's birthday, and Arbeia Fort and Museum, in South Shields, is back open.
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum opens at the British Museum in London
Focusing on the everyday and domestic rather than gladiators and emperors, the British Museum's new show calls upon ghosts preserved by volcanic carbonisation.
Pre-Roman relics back on display in Forestry Commission and Yorkshire Museum project
A set of 4,000-year-old artefacts, found in the Yorkshire countryside after World War II and donated to the Yorkshire Museum, have gone on public display in Dalby.
First Celtic High Cross reassembled on Scottish island of Iona
A "monumental and powerful" cross, commissioned thanks to the funding of an eighth century King, is being put back together more than 1,000 years later.
National Museum Wales to bid for Bronze Age treasure axes in Pembrokeshire
The Deputy Coroner has given treasure status to a pair of 4,000-year-old weapons found by a pair of metal detectorists in a Pembrokeshire field two years ago.
Great North Museum celebrates 200 years of Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Celebrating 200 years of collecting and caring for the heritage of the north-east, a new exhibition takes a look at the work of Newcastle's Society of Antiquaries.
