To say Kate Whiteford, the Scottish artist, is fascinated by archaeology is an understatement. Land drawings/ installations/excavations, her newly published, and sumptuously…
Richard Hodges writes from Philadelphia, USA…
Just west of the entrance to the underworld, lies the site of Baia. Mike Cless takes us there, tells of a divine…
John Hale is an archaeologist at the University of Kentucky in Louisville with an impressive dossier of field experience at sites both…
From the pyramids of Egypt, to St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, via the Parthenon, Petra, and Pompeii, Charles Freeman’s latest book covers…
Produced to mark the 10th anniversary of the open-air Palaeolithic art of Portugal’s Côa Valley becoming a World Heritage site, this beautiful…
And now for something completely different… the title might be a bit off-putting but the principal author, Chris Evans, is one of…
The discovery of an unidentified and unexplained mummy, labelled Unknown Man E, in the Royal Cache tomb in Ancient Thebes, prompted the…
This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
I have a great job: as Reviews Editor at the journal Antiquity, books on subjects ranging from early hominins to today’s car…
I got so excited when I first heard about the finds made at Yenikapı, the ancient harbour to the south of Istanbul’s…