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Read the latest news from the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.

Student displaying archaeological coin

7 January 2026

Undergraduate Archaeology degrees now accredited

A fire outdoors

10 December 2025

Research shows humans making fire 350,000 years earlier than thought

Side by side photos of the two awardees

9 December 2025

Double success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants

21 October 2025

Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

7 October 2025

Ancient teeth provide new insight into the lives of the world’s first farming villagers 

Charlotte Bell with the tombstone of Vedica at Ilkley Manor House

25 April 2025

Becoming an expert: representation of women in Roman Britain

9 April 2025

Hunter-Gatherers lived on remote Mediterranean islands a thousand years earlier than previously thought

• The trench initially excavated by Professor Guédé’s team was overgrown when researchers returned for the current study

26 February 2025

Early evidence uncovered for humans making home in rainforests

19 February 2025

Original Ideas podcast discusses Archaeology’s role in past, present and future

An iron age hut

24 January 2025

Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain

An illustration in the style of an ancient cave painting with two figures touching their hands together with \'Blazing the Trail\' written on top.

3 December 2024

Blazing the Trail: international experts create new podcast on our epic human story

An ancient skull

26 November 2024

The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes via Lucy to us – in one long read

4 October 2024

Project to reunite Garstang’s scattered archaeological finds awarded £585K

Three people sitting and examining records

25 July 2024

Cast Iron Memories: reviving the Yoward archive at Ironbridge

Harold Mytum talk Dec 22

9 December 2022

St John's cemetery Parramatta: preserved in stone

7 April 2022

Research team sheds light on Roman financial crisis

HLC building

30 March 2022

Call for Papers: ACE & Creativity

Gerda Henkel Foundation Funding

26 November 2021

Funding Success: Hearth and Home

Students digging in an excavation site.

10 November 2021

Archaeology leads community excavation at Norton Priory

Dr Matthew Ponting using SEM

23 August 2021

Archaeometallurgy continues to grow in the Department of ACE