Ed. Morris L Bierbrier Egypt Exploration Society, £35 The Egypt Exploration Society has updated their compendium of Egyptologists after a gap of…
The stereotypical Viking of popular culture is a marauding raider in a horned helmet, but the archaeological record provides a much more…
The dig Ancient historian Josephus records a dramatic end to the Siege of Masada in AD 73. As the final act of…
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Were Roman slaves hungry? What was it like to be a slave in the Roman Empire? The answer, according to the…
The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its first ruler.…
Tales of the French Foreign Legion in the deserts of North Africa have fired the imagination of many an adventurous school boy.…
Inspired by an engaging new book about women in the Ancient World, Christopher Catling asks: what do art, literature, and archaeology tell…
A fossilised face and two lower jaws excavated in Kenya may confirm that Homo erectus, our direct ancestor, coexisted with multiple species…
Construction work in the ruins of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City has uncovered a unique burial at the foot of the Aztec capital’s…
The well-preserved wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman merchant ship carrying hundreds of clay amphorae has been found off the coast of Italy.…
Archaeologists have mapped the entire streetplan of a lost Roman town, revealing that what was thought to be a sleepy backwater was…