Anyone visiting Egypt today must wonder how it struck travellers before our current understanding of its archaeological sites. Egyptologist Chris Naunton, former…
Since its discovery by the British officer Tony Clunn in the late 1980s, the German site of Kalkriese in Lower Saxony, north…
This edited volume is the product of an innovative project, culminating in a multiple-day workshop of the same name as this publication,…
On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped…
Tantra’s appeal has proven remarkably broad. What began on the margins of Indian society went on to command the patronage of royalty…
Tantra has inspired striking imagery: heavily armed gods and goddesses committing violent carnage while adorned with human body parts, or enacting acrobatic…
When hotel construction work unearthed extraordinary mosaics, the owners decided to create a new archaeological park. It showcases what is believed to…
Journeying south from the Serbian Danube presents an opportunity to revel in Roman opulence, as Oliver Gilkes reveals. The Danubian provinces of…
Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…
High on a hilltop near the village of Ploçe, Albania, lie the ruins of the ancient polis of Amantia. The city was…
Discover how a chance detail on a 19th-century map set in train a longstanding archaeological expedition at this elite necropolis, which is…
The Ancient Egyptian cemetery at Saqqara received burials for thousands of years. One consequence of this is a remarkable concentration of funerary…