We travel from all over the country to visit a special exhibition at the British Museum in London, or even hop across…
A sequence of clear, parallel lines stands out brightly against the red clay wall at the entrance to Chamber A1 in Rouffignac…
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…
Taking a bulldozer to open an ancient monument is not usually recommended. But, in 1977, that is exactly what Manolis Andronikos did.…
In the museum world’s equivalent of finding an heirloom in the attic, the curators at Torquay museum discovered they own an ancient…
Ayutthaya lies on the bank of the Chao Phraya River, a mighty waterway fed by innumerable tributaries that rise in the Phetchabun…
A multi-million dollar project to help preserve Luxor’s world-famous temples has resumed after being delayed for nine months by the Egyptian revolution.…
A 45,000-year-old toddler’s milk tooth, found in southern Italy, is evidence of the first modern humans to reach Europe. Stefano Benazzi, of…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
Handaxes and flakes recovered from the shores of Lake Turkana, in the remote north- western part of Kenya, are being hailed as…