Roughly 1,000 years ago, the finishing touches were being made to a rectangular length of fabric. At first glance, the textile resembles…
Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II (c.1558–1553 BC) ruled southern Egypt at the end of the 17th Dynasty, during a time when the northern part of…
It is not unknown for children to try to outdo their parents. When it comes to tombs, though, pharaoh Khufu must have…
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – these days the Penn Museum – was conceived in the late 19th…
On 10 November 2020, the exhibition Iron Age – Europe without Borders opened at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, despite…
The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on microevolution in an early hominin species, as…
Thebes is the forgotten city of ancient Greece. It lies 32 miles north-west of Athens, at the heart of sleepy Boeotia, but…
This granite statue depicts Pharaoh Ramesses VI, who reigned 1144-1137 BC. On the back is a hieroglyphic inscription that reads: ‘May [he]live,…
A project looking at the history of crops in prehistoric China has identified differences in regional diets and changes over time, which…
The remains of two individuals who died during the eruption of Vesuvius have been found at a suburban villa near Pompeii.…
An ongoing study in the Makran Sefidkuh region of Iran is shedding light on the culture and archaeological remains of communities in…
A sub-adult burial dating to the early-mid Holocene, c.8000 BP, has been found in Makpan Cave on Alor Island, south-eastern Indonesia. To…
A geoglyph has been discovered on a hillside in the Nazca desert of Peru during the emergency project ‘Cleaning, Conservation and Restoration…