The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
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Richard Hodges remembers his first encounter with the University of Pennsylvania Museum…
The site of Jerablus Tahtani, which rises up in the Uruk period, becomes strongly fortified in the Early Bronze Age, but is…
The story of the red-brick Gorgan Wall. Snaking at least 195km from the Caspian Sea to the Highlands, it is one of…
The intriguing rock art from the Alaskan rock shelters of Tuxedni and Clam Cove…
The Great Arab Revolt Project, the CWA-backed excavation, is in its second season. Here the team tells of the latest results…
The 1st century BC site of the local dynast, Antiochus I, who ruled a small but wealthy kingdom in south-east Turkey called…
Richard Hodges charts the latest finds from Albania's magical site…
The changing fortunes of St Giles and Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert…
Nadia Durrani takes a look at the Terracotta Army, on display at the British Museum…
Brian Fagan's ear to the ground…