In France, archaeologists have uncovered a huge Iron Age chariot burial that is puzzling archaeologists. It is the largest yet found, and belongs…
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The spectacular untouched tomb of Prince Liang Zhuang, favourite brother of the Ming emperor Xuande, has been hailed as China’s greatest discovery for a…
War has raged in and around the last Hittite capital of Karkemish throughout its long and prestigious history. The city – also known…
Excavation at a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in south-east Spain has uncovered the burial of an elite couple dating to about 1650 BC.…
In July 1916, 450 of the 2,500 British and (mostly) Australian soldiers killed during two days of fighting at Fromelles in northern France…
The Moche were the first empire-builders of the American continent, more than eight centuries before the Incas, and just as deserving of fame as…
Today, nothing survives in the hot, arid environment of the Taklamakan Desert in north-western China. Yet, it is thanks to these conditions that…
Finding the archaeological evidence for a major turning point in history is something few archaeologists will experience. Finding the remains of a sea battle…
Our cover feature reads like detective fiction: archaeologists come across a pharaoh’s sarcophagus stolen in antiquity that leads them to the discovery of the…
Little is known of the fierce warrior nomads who occupied the southern region of the Ural Mountains in modern-day Russia about 2,500 years…
Richard Hodges explores the history and archaeology of the Spanish Basque Country.…