Festival of Archaeology 2022 Photo Competition

This photo shows the sun rise on the final week of an evaluation I ran in Hertfordshire (you can see some of the trenches on the hill opposite). To me, each site is a journey. While we may have a vague idea of the final destination, the route that we navigate is unknown until we travel it | By Stephen White

Driving a digger through the bar of the Ye Olde Smugglers Inn, Alfriston for TV's 'Pub Dig' | By Simon Stevens

Here they come - kids climb up to the cottage site at the Stiances Archaeological Project | By Simon Stevens

This picture shows the excavation of trench 1 and trench 3 of the Uzbek- American Expedition in the Bukhara, almost at the end of this season, where we found the Wall . This site is a remarkable demonstration of the process of urban development of Bukhara city. And a documentary was filming the excavation site when the picture was taken | By Yifan Wu

A 35mm photograph taken right before a storm hit during our first university dig at Downley in May this year. The weather doesn’t stop archaeologist | By Dylan Elliott

These vehicles are left at an open land at Barnham, untended. They are on their journey to become part of Archaeology. Nearby, stone tools dating to 400 ka were found, which have been through this journey already | By Xin Ding

Our picture shows how Beatrijs, under close examination of a sister from the Las Dueñas convent in Salamanca (Spain), takes photos of an Islamic water jar once owned by Chikaba, an afro-hispanic nun who lived in the convent during the 18th century. The photo reflects our journey to capture and understand the archaeological itinerary of this jar, from utilitarian object to Christian relic, and to learn more about Chikaba's journey, from slavery to becoming a renowned writer | By Beatrijs de Groot and Sirio Canos Donnay

Journey to the afterlife. Late Iron Age burial mounds in the grave fields at Lovö, Lake Mӓlaren, near Stockholm, June 2022 | By Stuart Brookes

An Armenian church bearing witness to a land emptied of its people | By Paolo Guarino

We played spot the tell site on our journey through the fertile plains | By Paolo Guarino

Van Castle is melting into the landscape | By Paolo Guarino

A trip to Pahang, Malaysia - home of the Batek - lowland rainforest hunter-gatherers | By Isabelle Richardson

A Journey I have just made from Athens to Lisbon on the expedition ship Silver Wind. I was a guest lecturer in Archaeology on the journey and gave lectures on the Greek colonisation of Italy and the westward expansion of the Phoenicians to Iberia | By Carol Bell

I was a student at the I of A in the 70s, and the year before I came up I spent digging around the country. One of the sites I worked on was the Sweet Track with John and Bryony Coles, the Neolithic walkway in Somerset of which a bit is currently in the BM Stonehenge show. John gave much attention to taking immaculate excavation photos, and he set up this view with the two scales. I took my own shots (with the cheapest film, which didn’t weather particularly well!). I think of it as a site of Neolithic journeys that started my own journey in archaeology. Still walking | By Mike Pitts

When entering my BA Archaeology degree, I knew I was going to learn and see some amazing objects. But nothing compared to the feeling of holding this 3,000-year-old Greek jug, the first-ever artefact I held in my very first seminar back in 2019. I knew from that moment that I had chosen the right path and my journey has just begun! | By Victoria Judith Igary

This photo was taken in Carlingford, Republic of Ireland during my first field school experience after completing my BA and before moving to London for my MA. Formerly a pastry chef for 15 years, this experience marked the milestone of using my hands for the first time in my new field, sculpting soil instead of sugar. | By Megan Elias

Back to hang out with archaeologists: A 20-year personal journey from the UCL IoA to the Cobb IoA at the Mississippi State. At first sight, this petite IoA in the Deep South of the United States reminded me a lot of my old times in Gordon Square. Early this year, I was appointed as a research associate at the Cobb IoA and am hoping to continue my archaeological journey with people and projects here. | By Meg C. Wang

My team in Tell Nebi Mend, Syria, 1979 and 1983. A different world then, no running water, no electricity, and certainly a different world now. How great to still have these photos of the villagers. When I went there, they were supposed to be "the Baptism of Fire of the archaeological Middle East". But soon they became good friends…I dread to think what happened to them and the site. (Credits for all photos and All Rights Reserved Romana Hope-Mason, 2022) | By Romana Unger-Hamilton

At the Camp du Charlat, Correze, France, with Sheppard Frere. Author at left, learning how to dig, the start of a long and continuing journey into the past | By Charles Higham

Walking to site in the Botai region of Kazhakstan, while on fieldschool in 2011. We chose to walk rather than ride the 2 miles in the rather rickety ‘Mystery Machine’, which passes us here on the dirt road. We often saw groups of horses being herded across the landscape as we investigated evidence for the first horse domestication | By Emily Johnson

Landscape in the Karakol Valley, Altai Republic (Russian Federation) with a kurgan hiding behind the Soviet van (summer 2001) | By Cecilia Conte

Lake Van Eastern Turkey: a journey in dodgy hire cars as far as the frontiers of Iraq, Armenia and Syria, where we saw a diversity of cultures, past and present, prehistoric to modern | By Paolo Guarino

I did an excavation in North West Argentina, and then hitched through the colourful mountains, where the roads appear to stretch on forever | By Sarah Wolferstan

I did an excavation in North West Argentina, and then hitched through the colourful mountains, where the roads appear to stretch on forever | By Sarah Wolferstan

Looking for Venus: The photo has been taken at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán peninsula, Mexico, the 4th of June 2022. In background the El Caracol, a Maya structure dated around AD 906. It has been suggested that El Caracol was an observatory, therefore I decided to wait for the iguana to turn the head up to the sky trying to suggest a connection between nature and the ancient astronomers studying the movement of Venus in the sky | By Paolo Coruzzi

The processing team at ASE rewrote the lyrics to Journey's Don't Stop Believin' in a very creative interpretation of the "Journeys" theme!

This image is a combination of the colors, textures, and images that make up a 3D model of a building in the Shanxi Digital Documentation Project. The process of making these stunning models is often just as gorgeous as the final project and adds an abstract beauty to the our efforts to preserve our shared heritage | By Mike D'Aprix