In Alaska, the cremated remains have been found of a three- year-old child who might have been one of the earliest inhabitants…
A paper in Science argues that modern humans gained significant health benefits from interbreeding with Neanderthals. Scientists last year suggested that interbreeding…
A paper by Paul Mellars and Jennifer French, published in Science, contributes to the widely debated question of why European Neanderthals were…
A superbly carved and intact lion sculpture, excavated by a Canadian team in south-eastern Turkey, is reminiscent of the lions excavated by…
Half of Australia’s rock art could disappear in the next 50 years, according to the country’s archaeologists. They have mounted a campaign…
As the Arab Spring flooded through Egypt’s Tahrir Square, the old political order was swept away – and with it went Egyptology’s…
A strange statue standing guard near the Sistine Chapel in Rome intrigues travel writer Nigel McGilchrist. Could the Vatican be sitting on…
I have returned to Knidos after 40 years. Across the decades you forget the outlines of the trenches and the stratigraphic relationships…
Francophile David Miles pulls on his hiking boots, and sets off in search of Neolithic farmers in the South of France.…
China’s prehistoric site at Hemudu awakens memories of Neolithic sites in South East Asia – and admiration for current Chinese archaeology.…
Centuries before the gap year and package holiday became cultural staples, Western travellers were making long – and often dangerous – journeys…
There have been many Romes. From the earliest scattered huts on the Palatine to the frenetic modern metropolis, the Eternal City has…