It is a traveller’s story repeated throughout the decades. The first-time visitor to Paris arrives in the city armed with a checklist…
Tuscany conjures thoughts of the apogee of rich living. Its picturesque villages, graced by grand villas and their pools, serve as summer…
Chris Webber Pen and Sword, £25.00 Claiming descent from Thrax, son of the war god Ares, the Thracians were feared throughout the…
Nick Thomson Shire Books, £6.99 Corrugated iron may not be seen as a glamorous building material today, but it was once so…
Colin McEcedy Allen Lane, £25.00 Alexandria. Athens. Babylon. Carthage. Constantinople. Jerusalem. Colin McEvedy’s contents page reads like a roll-call of some of…
Frederick N Bohrer Reaktion Books Ltd, £17.95 Before photography, archaeologists hired ‘tracers’ to copy inscriptions and record finds by hand. Howard Carter…
He founded the Oriental Institute in Chicago, was the first American to achieve a doctorate in Egyptology, and his book is an…
We travel from all over the country to visit a special exhibition at the British Museum in London, or even hop across…
Patagonia at the end of the Ice Age was not a pleasant place to live: it was a time of great climatic…
The ancient temples of Angkor have endured nearly a millennium of conflict and warfare, but will this new visitor boom, asks Tom…
In the last 10 years, a flurry of archaeological excavation ahead of the completion of the Ilısu Dam on the River Tigris…
A sequence of clear, parallel lines stands out brightly against the red clay wall at the entrance to Chamber A1 in Rouffignac…