Andrew Selkirk recalls the city before the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, and reveals some unusual burial practices…
The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum…
A set of ancient silverware is discovered at Pompeii…
Stone phallus discovered during excavations at Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age…
Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway…
John Crookshank on Roman Spain, with a focus on Mérida…
Over the years there have been several magic moments during my digging career. Trowelling down to reveal my first mosaic in a…
From the cover stares a glamorous European face with incongruous Egyptian make-up. But let us not judge a book by its cover.…