China’s Han Empire was brought to its knees by powerful nomadic tribes. But just when…

The house-proud Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük inadvertantly frustrated archaeologists by keeping their homes clean. Now…

Packed in a crate with artefacts from the Middle East, the eery figures arrived in…

The present uprising in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the region. But this…

The Sirte Basin in northern Libya, the current battleground for Colonel Gaddafi’s troops and rebel…

There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits,…

Recent excavations have shown Medieval ruins in the Russian republic of Tuva were monastic and…

Bamboo was probably used as an alternative to stone in South East Asia, scientists believe.…

When first discovered in 2001 by the archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, the mural-covered…

The first settlements on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Hawai’i, and New Zealand have been dated…

First ‘unequivocal proof for pre-Clovis occupation of America’ has been found by researchers at Texas…

Lewis Binford, champion of the New Archaeology movement, died on 11 April 2011, at the…