Rome’s military is renowned as one of the finest fighting forces of the ancient world. But what was life really like for…
Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…
It was the railways that first fired public interest in Old Oslo back in the 19th century. Although the crumbling ruins of…
Survey and excavation in a remote region of Mongolia are revealing a wealth of information about an extraordinary concentration of rock art.…
This year’s photo competition has included a wonderful array of archaeological images from around the world. Despite travel limitations over the last…
At a time of great climatic and environmental change during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, humans entered the western…
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,…