Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…
The main challenge of studying pre-Christian Scandinavia is that written sources describing the period mainly post-date the region’s official conversion by centuries.…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
In this beautifully illustrated new compendium of ancient Greek material culture, Richard Neer spans 2,350 years of art history from the Bronze…
In 1839, the invention of the daguerreotype offered explorers a new way to document their travels, and within a year photographic pioneers…
Prompted by a session on the subject at an annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, the editors, working on the…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
The Ashmolean Museum’s new Egypt and Nubia galleries are now open to the public, after a £5m refurbishment. The project involved a…
Excavation following the discovery of the tomb of Philip II in Vergina (see p20) posed two huge problems: how to preserve the…
Three opulent palaces sit within a stone's throw of each other, built when Persian kings ruled the greatest empire in the world,…