We’re hosting a new exhibition marking the centenary of China’s prestigious Palace Museum.

A New Zealand researcher is joining us on a four-year professorship to study the bioethics of the use, curation, and repatriation of anatomical skeletal collections.

Ancient plant samples have shown that farmers in the Middle East prioritised wine production over olive growing during times of climatic change.

Twenty of our researchers will take important roles in assessing UK universities’ research quality.

We’ve formalised our already productive collaboration with Raby Castle, connecting world-class research with one of the North East’s most iconic heritage sites.

Written accounts tell the story of the Zanj rebellion – a slave revolt that took place in the late 9th century in southern Iraq. Some of the rebels were enslaved Africans working in various sectors of the local economy. Here Honorary Fellow in Archaeology, Peter Brown sheds new light on the timelines.

Dr Riley Snyder has just been awarded the inaugural Best Article of the Year Award by the academic journal 'Studies in Late Antiquity'. His work sheds new light on the complex networks and industries needed for capital cities to emerge in Late Antiquity, such as Ravenna and Constantinople.

Durham's Department of Archaeology returns to the village of Climăuţi de Jos in northern Moldova for our second season excavating a 25,000-year old Upper Palaeolithic campsite. Our Professor Paul Pettitt leads this project in collaboration with Dr Vitalie Burlacu (Moldova’s Cultural-Natural reserve at Orheiul Vecchi) and Dr Laure Fontana (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris Nanterre, France).

One of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds – excavated by archaeologists at Durham University – has been saved for the nation.

Durham-affiliated research postgraduates Batuhan Özdemir and Eloise Jones recently won prestigious honours. These awards recognise and support their excellent research into ancient Lycia-Trm̃misa.

Over the last eight years, a medieval wall, chapel and even a toilet have been uncovered in the grounds of Auckland Palace in County Durham.

Professor Sarah Semple has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy.