The monuments carved into the rose-red rock faces at Petra can be counted among the most renowned archaeological remains on the planet.…
The Somme region of Picardie is already famous in archaeological circles for the first hand axe to be found in a securely…
A gold monkey-head pendant has been returned to Peru thanks to the intervention of the country’s ambassador Luis Valdivieso. The artefact, which…
The wreck of a Mongolian ship that took part in Kublai Khan’s attempts to invade and subjugate Japan in 1281 has been…
A tiny Caribbean island has produced one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric non-native animal remains ever found in the region.…
Archaeologists investigating the core of the Pyramid of the Sun, at Teotihuacan on the outskirts of Mexico City, have discovered the ceremonial…
An ancient Chinese-style bronze buckle found by a team from the University of Colorado Boulder in Alaska may prove the earliest evidence…
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC has withdrawn from hosting a controversial maritime exhibition. Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds was due…
Lion man or woman? In August 1939, archaeologist Otto Völzing was excavating deep inside the Stadel cave in the Schwäbische Alb mountains…
Results of the excavations at Knossos surpassed all expectations. Evans revealed a vast palace complex of Middle Bronze Age date , 1300…
At a barbecue last year, a former student of mine, who had joined me on my excavations for 20 years, suggested the…
Tuscany conjures thoughts of the apogee of rich living. Its picturesque villages, graced by grand villas and their pools, serve as summer…
It is a traveller’s story repeated throughout the decades. The first-time visitor to Paris arrives in the city armed with a checklist…