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Welcome to the MOLA blog. Explore our latest news, discoveries, stories and content. Our blog posts are created by archaeologists and specialists from across the organisation and cover a range of fascinating and informative topics. Browse our posts using the tags, join in the discussion and share with your network.

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MOLA to host PhD students in Collaborative Doctoral Partnership

Emma Dwyer
23.05.2019

From October 2020 MOLA will be supporting three new research students a year to study for a PhD at a UK university., through the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership.

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Rare Roman coin depicting ill-fated emperor Laelianus identified on A14C2H

MOLA Headland team
20.05.2019

Our archaeologists have uncovered an incredibly rare coin featuring a Roman emperor who reigned for only two months during the post-excavation work on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme. In this blog, we explore the significance of this coin.

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Winning hearts and minds for development

MOLA team
16.05.2019

Our Basingstoke team hosted a discussion exploring how best to win hearts and minds for development, led by speakers Professor Tony Curtis and Dr Carole Fry.

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Walking the Greenwich foreshore with Dr Sophie Hay

Amy Reid
15.05.2019

In this blog new MOLA Ambassador, Dr Sophie Hay, joins the Thames Discovery Programme on the Greenwich foreshore for her first Archaeology Ambassador event.

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Tut Tut? Why compare Prittlewell’s princely burial to King Tutankhamun’s tomb?

Sophie Jackson
14.05.2019

Sophie Jackson, our Director of Research and Engagement called the discovery of a remarkable Anglo-Saxon burial chamber in Prittlewell, Essex Britain’s "equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb”, sparking lively debate in the press and on social media. Why compare the two?

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