In the 13th century, the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire that the world has ever seen. At its height,…
What was life like for the Cro-Magnons, Europe's first anatomically modern humans? Having harnessed the archaeological data, Brian Fagan then gathers us…
This autumn the Penn Museum will hold an exhibition on their first-ever excavation at Nippur in modern Iraq. But it all centres…
Myra, on the southern coast of Turkey, was home to the 4th century bishop St Nicolas (of Santa Claus fame). What remains…
As the capital of two great empires, Istanbul (and in its previous incarnation as Constantinople) contains a great wealth of culturally important…
Exquisitely located just 11km from the Mediterranean coast, the city was founded atop a 60m high acropolis. Its history is both deep…
New species of hominid have been discovered in South Africa and Siberia, adding to the story of the evolution of modern humans…
Volcanic ash from the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland caused airline havoc in April 2010, but the far bigger Toba volcanic eruption that…
Volcanic eruptions have helped Icelandic archaeologists pin down to within one or two years the earliest settlement of the island. The 2001…
A team of UK-based researchers have been working in India’s Andhra Pradesh region in search of more recent industrial archaeology. The team,…
The difficulty of defining ethnicity on the basis of genetic evidence has once again been demonstrated by the recent analysis of DNA…
When Leonard Simmons, a Londoner with a passion for history, served in the Royal Air Force in the Middle East from 1945…
What is being claimed as ‘the world’s southernmost site of early human life’, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, has been found as…