In the 13th century, the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire that the world has ever seen. At its height,…
Laodicea is well sited on a high plateau and surrounded by the rivers Lycos, Kapros and Asopos. Little wonder the city has…
The site has become famous partly for its large size (about 5,000-8,000 people lived there) and long occupation (the site is Neolithic…
From one iconic archaeological site to another, we end this round-up at Troy, on the western coast of Turkey. The site was…
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…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment of all things archaeological that are both exotic and illuminating he explores turkey (DNA), considers Maya water,…
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…