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    • a photo of a calcified dog from Pompeii
      Article: Preview 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.
      28 March 2013
    • A photo of a woman holding up a Bronze Age pot outdoors
      Article: News 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.
      26 March 2013
    • A photo of two dark green axe shards from the Bronze Age against a black backdrop
      Article: News 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.
      04 March 2013
    • An overhead photo of a huge boat on a dockyard, made out of wood
      Article: News Archaeological remake of 4,000-year-old boat faces "moment of truth" in Cornwall
      An amazing project to reconstruct an ancient boat, carried out using Bronze Age axeheads and prehistoric techniques in Cornwall, could see the vessel launch this week.
      26 February 2013
    • a photo of the head of a carved figure
      Article: Review Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind at the British Museum
      An absorbing aesthetic journey awaits visitors to the British Museum, which brings the art of the hunter gatherers together in a groundbreaking show of artworks made in the Ice Age.
      07 February 2013
    • A photo of an ancient helmet with a crack in it mottled green and brown by soil
      Article: Feature In his own Words: Andrew Richardson on finding a Roman helmet in a Kent field
      The Finds Manager for the Canterbury Archaeological Trust recalls the phonecall which led to the excavation of a Prehistoric helmet from a field in Kent.
      04 December 2012
    • a photo of a roughly hewn stone figurine
      Article: News Archaeologists find "unprecedented" third prehistoric figurine beneath Links of Notland
      Historic Scotland is celebrating after a third prehsitoric stone figure was found in the archaeologically fertile grounds of the Links of Notland on Westray, Orkney.
      28 August 2012
    • a photo of a landscape of hills, folds and fields
      Article: Preview First Kirknewton Archaeology Festival celebrates one of England's richest historic landscapes
      The tiny Northumberland village of Kirknewton is about to celebrate its importance in British history and archaeology with an ambitious week-long festival.
      24 August 2012
    • a photo of a pottery sherd with the vague outline of a boat scored into it
      Article: News Bronze Age pottery sherd from Isles of Scilly could be earliest British depiction of a boat
      A small Bronze Age pottery sherd, currently on display at the National Maritime Museum in Cornwall, could be the earliest representation of a boat ever found in the UK.
      22 August 2012
    • A photo of a group of archaeologists posing side by side on an archaeological site
      Article: News Time Team experts left lost for superlatives after secret dig at Norfolk's Branodunum fort
      The first dig since the 1930s at Branodunum, a fort near Brancaster on the north Norfolk coast, will result in television revelations about Roman communities next year.
      13 August 2012
    • a photo of a mammoth-shaped object being carried by a mobile crane
      Article: News in Brief Mammoths and other Ice Age animals invade Creswell Craggs in new sensory play area
      Creswell Craggs is turning its attention to younger visitors with a series of sensory play objects and improvements that will improve the visitor experience for kids.
      08 August 2012
    • A photo of a skeleton with teeth buried in a light brown and yellow stone and clay ditch
      Article: News Soldiers battle badgers on Salisbury Plain as innovative project reveals Anglo-Saxon remains
      An award-winning archaeology project carried out by soldiers injured in Afghanistan has uncovered the skeletons of an Anglo-Saxon man and woman on Salisbury Plain.
      16 July 2012
    • A photo of ancient prehistoric rocks on a hill under a blue sky
      Article: News Contractors take over Airman's Corner to build £27 million Stonehenge visitor centre
      Thirty years of planning seem set to end at one of Britain's most famous heritage attractions, with a new visitor centre and major exhibition set for completion during 2013.
      11 July 2012
    • A photo of a man holding a carved head
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: The reconstructed head of a Neolithic woman at the Museum of London
      The Senior Curator in Prehistory at the Early London History and Collections department introduces us to a 5,500-year-old Neolithic woman found in Shepperton.
      25 July 2011
    • Article: Interview Interview: making Neanderthal music at Museum of Wales
      Culture24 talks to the makers of a unique Museum of Wales' soundscape project to give visitors an insight into the noises Neanderthals might have heard and made.
      03 February 2009
    • Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Elizabeth Walker of National Museum Cardiff chooses a Stone Age axe
      Curator's Choice: Elizabeth Walker, Curator of Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Archaeology at National Museum Cardiff picks a Neanderthal hand axe made of rhyolite, which dates back to c. 60,000-35,000 BC.
      01 February 2009
    • photo of tall and thin slabs of standing stone in a circle
      Article: Trail A trail around UK standing stones and burial chambers
      With the summer solstice once again upon us now is a good time to visit the UK's many mysterious megalithic monuments.
      21 December 2008
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    Trail To The Lighthouse and Beyond: A Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Trail
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    Trail A Brotherhood of Realism and Romance: A Pre-Raphaelite art trail
    a photo of a man stood before the engine cowling of a Spitfire
    Interview Curator's Choice: The Supermarine Spitfire at the RAF Museum London
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