The oasis town of Ghadames is an architectural gem in western Libya. It once lay on the trans-Saharan trade-route described in the…
The Late Bronze Age of the Near East, roughly spanning 1400-1200 BCE (Before Christian Era), has often been characterized as an ‘age…
Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication. The Greek poetry of Homer was at first transmitted orally,…
Mohenjo-daro represents an entire Early Bronze Age civilization on a par with those of contemporary Egypt and Mesopotamia.…
We think of chemical weapons as one of the horrifying features of modern warfare. We might assume that it all started with…
Crete lies in an earthquake zone. This has affected the island over the centuries, but how? In the 1850's Captain Spratt, RN,…
Digging pre-European lives on the balmy 'desert island' of Carriacou…
Romans versus Persians - a gruesome story of gas warfare at the ancient siege site of Dura-Europos…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment he fights to the death with the Maya, goes underground with the Fed, and excavates Cecil B…
An Anglo-Saxon hoard containg over 1,346 gold and silver items has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England…
Project aims to study development of mud-brick enclosures dating to the Early Islamic Period…
Grave of 5th century AD warrior discovered with surviving armour…