The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum…
The excavations at the Turkish site of Bogazkoy, capital city of the Hittites…
Andrew Selkirk recalls the city before the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, and reveals some unusual burial practices…
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called 'most polluted place on earth'…
A close look at the copious Roman artefacts found at the bottom of the sacred spring at Bourbonne-les-Bains in France…
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man…
A set of ancient silverware is discovered at Pompeii…
Stone phallus discovered during excavations at Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway…
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…