Much of the Indus Valley civilisation was revealed to the world on Sir John Marshall’s watch as director general of the Archaeological…
Peking Man represents the spread of a new species of hominid, Homo erectus, in an earlier ‘Out of Africa’ migration beginning about…
The British Museum’s exhibition, Treasures of Heaven, is more than a collection of beautiful artefacts – it is the exploration of a…
Packed in a crate with artefacts from the Middle East, the eery figures arrived in Montreal, Canada, in the mid 1950s. A…
The house-proud Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük inadvertantly frustrated archaeologists by keeping their homes clean. Now Lisa-Marie Shillito examines an aspect of…
China’s Han Empire was brought to its knees by powerful nomadic tribes. But just when defeat seemed inevitable, an ingenious new approach…
There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits, and a series of massive long-houses have…
The Sirte Basin in northern Libya, the current battleground for Colonel Gaddafi’s troops and rebel civilian forces, is no stranger to conflict.…
The present uprising in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the region. But this part of North Africa has a troubled…
The lure of chocolate Hi-tech archaeology triumphs again! Now it shows we are not the first societies to be ardent chocoholics. As…
Lewis Binford, champion of the New Archaeology movement, died on 11 April 2011, at the age of 80 years. The obituary, published…
First ‘unequivocal proof for pre-Clovis occupation of America’ has been found by researchers at Texas A&M University. Flint knife blades, chisels, and…