Apollonia Pontica was once a welcome refuge for mariners navigating a notoriously treacherous stretch of the Black Sea coast. Tradition has it…
No matter how many years I have spent in the Mediterranean in wintertime, I cannot get it into my head that it…
As they walked across Engare Sero in northern Tanzania, a group of people left their mark in the soft surface of volcanic…
The House of Augustus: a historical detective storyT P WisemanPrinceton University Press, £30ISBN 978-0691180076Review by: Andrew Selkirk What is the most terrible…
Behind the scenes of a great excavation It is an open secret that archaeological expeditions are not always entirely harmonious operations, but…
Clusters of massive stone jars in Laos have inspired considerable curiosity. Little is known about the people who fashioned them, while even…
The megalithic jars of Laos have been entrancing visitors since the 19th century. These remarkable stone receptacles can occur individually, or in…
It is one of the delights of visiting new places that you sometimes find an entirely unexpected archaeological site, which gives you…
It is a country of enchantment which poets have staked out and which they alone may lay claim to. It is nearest…
Archaeologists with the Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan have digitally restored fragments of a very fragile painted leopard’s head from a 2nd…
How should we date material that is millions of years old? Looking at the predictable rates of the breakdown of proteins from…
Portugal’s Côa Valley contains Europe’s greatest collection of open-air Ice Age images. Across 17km, there are currently more than 530 known panels…
Excavating remarkable Inca rituals After the Acari Valley was absorbed by the Inca Empire, Tambo Viejo was founded to oversee its inhabitants.…