The monuments carved into the rose-red rock faces at Petra can be counted among the most renowned archaeological remains on the planet.…
UK, Iraqi, and Iranian archaeologists are uniting for the sake of preserving world heritage. Is this, Roger Matthews asks, a model for…
Sailors, from the Neolithic to the Byzantine periods, approaching the shores of Malta from the south east could not have failed to…
Ongoing excavations at Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in America, have revealed grisly evidence that within months of establishing the…
New research on the remains of ‘Oetzi’, the world’s oldest wet mummy, has revealed that his violent death was not the only…
The dig Rather than one major campaign of excavation, it was the results from a series of interventions over almost half a…
The Twelve Caesars Matthew Dennison Atlantic Books, £9.99 ISBN 978-1848876859 The legends surrounding the first 12 rulers of the Roman Empire are…
Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near East Karina Croucher Oxford University Press, £80.00 ISBN 978-0199693955 The Neolithic was a time of…
How to be a Viking: The Norse warrior’s unofficial manual John Haywood Thames & Hudson, £12.95 ISBN 978-0500251942 If you’ve ever wondered…
Greeks & Parthians in Mesopotamia and Beyond: 331 BC-224 AD Wolfram Grajetzki Bristol Classical Press, £16.99 ISBN: 978-0715639474 Who were the Parthians?…
Just outside the fortified walls of Mdina, once the capital of Malta, are the remains of a fine example of a Roman…
Rome is empty of tourists in late January; Umbria is even emptier, yet on most days there is sunshine for nine hours.…
The modern mind The British Museum’s (superb) current exhibition is called ‘Ice Age Art’ – though some say it might be more…