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Why a set of gold coins have divided British archeologists

In 2024 a detectorist found some gold coins in Suffolk. The discovery was declared legally treasure. If a museum wanted the coins, the finder would...

21.02.2026 100

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Why the Norfolk carnyx matters

09.01.2026 20

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Why did scientists think the Beachy Head Lady was African?

18.12.2025 9

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Were the Romans good for Britain?

12.12.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Sapiens / Has the history of human evolution been rewritten?

29.09.2025 7

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?

07.07.2025 9

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

We finally know what an ancient species of human looked like

20.06.2025 5

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour

17.06.2025 6

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

The impossible politics of ‘ancestral remains’

14.06.2025 6

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

How Cornwall led Europe into the Bronze Age

07.05.2025 4

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

The significance of the Melsonby hoard

30.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Why is Australia reburying ancient human remains?

25.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

Were the builders of Stonehenge black?

04.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Mike Pitts

I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud

There are many reasons to be excited about the dinosaur footprints whose discovery was announced last week. They will bring new understandings to...

05.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Mike Pitts

The mystery of Stonehenge's long-lost megaliths

Around 4,500 years ago, the famous silhouette of Stonehenge would have looked very different. Writer and archaeologist Mike Pitts digs up clues to...

22.12.2024 8

BBC

Mike Pitts