This week the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) released its results, placing the University of Durham’s Department of Archaeology as the best in the UK. The rating is based on an assessment of “quality of research conducted in UK higher education…
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Archaeologists in York, England have unearthed the oldest surviving human brain in Britain (believed to also be one of the oldest found anywhere in the world). “Dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age,” the find is in…
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A year ago, I published a review of Tom Parker’s book, The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989. This was published in the journal Near Eastern Archaeological Society Bulletin, volume 52, pp. 58-60.…
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Hadrian’s Wall is perhaps the best known (and arguably the most important) ancient roman monument in Britain. This article is the first installment in a planned series of at least 20 articles that will describe the Wall and its associated…
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Overlooking the verdant Valley of Elah, where the Bible says David toppled Goliath, archaeologists are unearthing a 3,000-year-old fortified city that could reshape views of the period when David ruled over the Israelites.
The site is Khirbet Qeiyafa, a five-acre site…
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In a recent review of the book Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
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Hexham Abbey
On Wednesday, 22 October, there was a Northern Roman Frontier Seminar (NRFS) meeting in Hexham. I became aware of this just a few days before the seminar, and am grateful to the organizers that I was allowed to attend…
On Tuesday, 7 October, the Archaeology Department at the University of Durham took it’s taught postgraduates on a day-long field trip to Hadrian’s Wall and Corbridge. As a new postgraduate, I was on this trip and enjoyed it thoroughly, despite…
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As the temperature soared past 90, eager young hands dug into the hot sand, seeking beads, pottery shards, pieces of oil lamps, and other windows into the lives of Jews living on the outskirts of Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ago.
This…
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In an interesting new study, French researchers
found that people who live in lands conquered by the Roman army have less protection against HIV than those in countries they never reached.
This is based on some fairly extensive DNA testing across Europe,…
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