A sherd of superb pottery reveals evidence for Denmark's original colonial presence in Ghana…
What is taboo? The current exhibition at the British Museum reveals all by looking at Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860…
Well-preserved 'noble fighter' discovered…
Re-examination of artefacts from sites in central France reveal that Neanderthals were more like modern humans than previously thought…
Pharaoh's suffering statue now re-erected at Giza…
Prof. Tim Darvill and Yvette Staelens of Bournemouth University send a missive from the Grotte de Niaux, a cave bursting with Palaeolithic…
Richard Hodges visits architect Richard Meier's new building that encloses the Ara Pacis, the monument to peace erected by Emperor Augustus…
The most familiar image in the gallery of the mind’s eye is how Carola Hicks describes The Bayeux Tapestry in her book,…
Prehistoric people were not like us. Despite attempts by archaeologists to separate settlements from ceremonial sites, burial places from work places, and…
Animal bone reports can be dry stuff so it is good to see a spate of interesting books about the complex and…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…
The cover says it all – or seems to. A gung-ho romp through the sandy wastes of the Arabian Empty Quarter in…