Archaeology

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Toby Wilkinson gives a lecture on the archaeologists and adventurers whose discoveries helped transform our understanding of the ancient Egyptians

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

A brief guide to the British Iron Age

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

The Sutton Hoo excavations are the focus of a new film, 'The Dig'. Carey Mulligan stars as Edith Pretty, and Ralph Fiennes portrays Basil Brown

Second World War

The Dig: the real history of the remarkable Sutton Hoo excavation

Ahead of the release of the new film The Dig, Professor Martin Carver discusses the real story of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. (Image by Getty Images)

Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries about one of the dominant powers of the ancient world, the Persian empire. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know

A Roman mosaic floor at Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight. (Image by Alamy)

Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain

A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

A brief history guide to Neanderthals, plus 7 fascinating facts

Zainab Bahrani on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know

Chris Naunton at BBC History Weekend

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs

'The last Day of Pompeii', 1833. Briullov, Karl Pavlovich (1799-1852). Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life

Howard Williams talks about the ethics of excavation on the HistoryExtra podcast.

Viking warrior women & the ethics of excavating the dead

Camilla Townsend on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Aztecs in their own words