Rome’s military is renowned as one of the finest fighting forces of the ancient world. But what was life really like for…
Most people today probably think Marathon has something to do with the Ancient Greek Olympics. In fact, there was no marathon race…
In the morning of 15 July 1099, the starving knights of the First Crusade broke through Jerusalem’s defences and stormed the Holy…
Irving Finkel, the British Museum specialist on the Cyrus Cylinder, has announced that horse bones now in the Palace Museum in Beijing…
Australian academics and members of the Aboriginal community working together to record and protect rock art in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land,…
Thanks to preservation under waterlogged conditions, a well in the federal state of Saxony, Germany, has revealed unprecedented information about woodworking skills,…
Human remains unearthed in Lima, capital of Peru, have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca deaths caused by Spanish conquerors around…
Francesco Benozzo, of the University of Bologna, studies the continuity of Palaeolithic words into recent languages as a means of understanding ancient…
Human remains found wrapped in costly dyed silk in Germany’s Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008 have been confirmed as those of Eadgyth (pronounced…
A Maya lord The ancient Maya continue to surprise us, this time with the discovery of a well-preserved tomb under the El…
We have all heard of Hannibal. The general who crossed the Alps with his elephants and nearly brought Rome to its knees…
Chicago is a very European city. With the wind whipping up Lake Michigan, it feels like Geneva on an autumnal day until…
This is one of the most delectable anti-archaeology books I have read for a long time. The author is the Emeritus Professor…