A long-neglected archaeological landscape will now be preserved after being declared a Class A Area of Archaeological Importance by the Malta Environment…
Thousands of previously unknown prehistoric stone structures have been found in some of the most remote and unexplored regions of the Middle…
Handaxes and flakes recovered from the shores of Lake Turkana, in the remote north- western part of Kenya, are being hailed as…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
Museums of the world not to be missed No matter how unlikely the subject, there is bound to be a museum devoted…
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.…
Imagine being played a DVD of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Russell Wallace discussing their views on evolution, or Boucher de…
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
In 1839, the invention of the daguerreotype offered explorers a new way to document their travels, and within a year photographic pioneers…
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.…