Between Mycenaean Greece and Classical Greece there is a ‘Dark Age’ during which civilization appears to have collapsed and little is known.…
The Greek Dark Ages are no longer dark: the excavations at Lefkandi on the island of Euboea, led by Irene Lemos, have…
The Valley of the Nobles, just east of the Valley of the Kings, contains
some of the most spectacular ancient Egyptian tombs.…
From the 14th century AD the city of Timbuktu, in West Africa, became legendary for the wealth it offered merchants crossing the…
Chinese people say that many Americans and Europeans have a distinctive odour. If you ask ‘what do they smell like’, some say…
The first ever excavation of a cementation steel furnace in America – in Trenton, New Jersey – is throwing new light America’s…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment of all things archaeological that are both exotic and entertaining he worships Maya macaws, reveals the oldest…
The invention of clothing and textiles ranks, along with the development of agriculture, cooking and ceramics, as one of the keystone events…
The DNA of a man who died between 1 and 50 AD, and who was buried in a tomb on the edge…
Archaeologists excavating Nero’s Domus Aurea (Golden House, so-called because of its original gold-leaf interior) have found the foundations of what they believe…
Feasting of a different kind was the subject of a paper in the latest issue of Antiquity (www.antiquity.ac.uk) reporting the evidence of…
To the south west of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, archaeologists from Southampton University and the British School at Rome…