In the 13th century, the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire that the world has ever seen. At its height,…
Richard Hodges reports from the land of multi-storey mud-brick architecture, known to the Romans as Arabia Felix…
‘Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A…
For the Books Section of Current World Archaeology, we asked this question of a number of distinguished archaeologists. We asked for about…
New clues point to location of Odysseus' island…
To mark the 70th anniversary of his death the Imperial War Museum is hosting a new exhibition on his life…
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called 'most polluted place on earth'…
Andrew Selkirk recalls the city before the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, and reveals some unusual burial practices…
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…
A close look at the copious Roman artefacts found at the bottom of the sacred spring at Bourbonne-les-Bains in France…
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age…
Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway…