In AD 749, the Middle East was struck by a devastating earthquake. Numerous cities suffered serious damage, including Jerash, which is now…
We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
What? Go to Florence to visit an archaeological museum? What about the great monuments of the Renaissance, or the museums and galleries…
Perpetually basking in a blazing luminous light, Ithaca boasts fine if unexceptional archaeological sites. With its well-signposted walking trails and numerous fish…
Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…
It was the railways that first fired public interest in Old Oslo back in the 19th century. Although the crumbling ruins of…
Survey and excavation in a remote region of Mongolia are revealing a wealth of information about an extraordinary concentration of rock art.…
This year’s photo competition has included a wonderful array of archaeological images from around the world. Despite travel limitations over the last…
At a time of great climatic and environmental change during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, humans entered the western…
It is not unknown for children to try to outdo their parents. When it comes to tombs, though, pharaoh Khufu must have…
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – these days the Penn Museum – was conceived in the late 19th…
On 10 November 2020, the exhibition Iron Age – Europe without Borders opened at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, despite…