Everyday concerns in ancient Egypt still resonate today, according to the latest issue of The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists,…
Northern and central India are renowned for their vast amount of rock art of global significance; now an international team has demonstrated…
Archaeologists and soil scientists have come up with the novel theory that the open areas conventionally described as ‘ritual plazas’ in Mayan cities…
Robots roam at Teotihuacan, Mexico Robots for exploring deep under pyramids are a new fashion in archaeology. One revealed a hidden door…
A team of archaeologists, working Peruvian Andes, has hailed as ‘sensational’ the discovery of three ‘ancestor stones’ on an isolated Andean mountainside.…
I clearly remember the day in October 1957, when news swept through the Institute of Archaeology in London that Gordon Childe had…
For years I have directed small armies of excavators through a project manager, so returning to the role of quartermaster (and co-director)…
To sail the Turkish Coast is to embark on an historical and archaeological adventure that spans over 3,000 years of history. It…
In 1819, the English physician and polymath Thomas Young – best known to archaeologists for his work in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs…
The modern country of Libya – the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – encompasses one of the richest parts of the Roman…
Machu Picchu symbolises the extent, technical skill, and productivity of the Inca Empire in its heyday.…
In 1978, a year before the Soviets foolishly decided to invade Afghanistan, a team of Russian and Afghan archaeologists were excavating a…