Professor João Zilhão and colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, have found pigment-stained and perforated marine shells at two Neanderthal-associated sites…
Fragments of parchment bearing part of an ancient Roman law code have been discovered by researchers at the Department of History at…
Stories about lost jungle civilizations are normally the staple of adventure films or the lunatic fringe. Now fiction has become reality with…
Former chief archaeological advisor to English Heritage David Miles travels to Arles in Southern France. There, he pays homage to a new…
Beneath the glorious Sicilian coastal city of Siracusa lies a vast underground world, as Michael Metcalfe reveals.…
Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication. The Greek poetry of Homer was at first transmitted orally,…
What happens when a ‘superior’ civilization impacts upon an ‘inferior’ one? A test bed for such questions is Iron Age Iberia –…
What happens when a ‘superior’ civilization impacts upon an ‘inferior’ one? A test bed for such questions is Iron Age Iberia…
When Nigeria appears on the news, it is too often for internet scams or identity fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting victims thousands…
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal…
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From the 14th century AD the city of Timbuktu, in West Africa, became legendary for the wealth it offered merchants crossing the…