Cattle, sheep and goats were domesticated by the 8th millennium BC but until recently the earliest evidence for milk processing, most likely…
It is a problem that has frustrated many an archaeologist faced with recreating an ancient wall painting, mosaic or pot: just how…
Beehives dating to the time of Solomon discovered in the Jordan Valley…
Far from the Amazon being virgin forest, it once supported a network of densely populated towns, according to Prof. Mike Heckenberger, from…
Sea shells and phallic figurines found in Neolithic graves…
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Aga Khan to restore Syria's medieval castles…
Richard Hodges writes from Gettysburg, USA…
Andrew Selkirk travels to Madrid to discover more on maritime archaeology and trade…
Specialist archaeological insights on the city of Timbuktu from Prof. Tim Insoll…
John Preston’s The Dig, a story about the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo, has now been published in paperback. It…
First-time author Alice Albinia has pluck. Post-2001, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, she walks for days on end veiled in a…