Apollonia Pontica was once a welcome refuge for mariners navigating a notoriously treacherous stretch of the Black Sea coast. Tradition has it…
Former chief archaeological advisor to English Heritage David Miles travels to Arles in Southern France. There, he pays homage to a new…
What happens when a ‘superior’ civilization impacts upon an ‘inferior’ one? A test bed for such questions is Iron Age Iberia…
What happens when a ‘superior’ civilization impacts upon an ‘inferior’ one? A test bed for such questions is Iron Age Iberia –…
Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication. The Greek poetry of Homer was at first transmitted orally,…
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal…
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The Greek Dark Ages are no longer dark: the excavations at Lefkandi on the island of Euboea, led by Irene Lemos, have…
The Valley of the Nobles, just east of the Valley of the Kings, contains
some of the most spectacular ancient Egyptian tombs.…
From the 14th century AD the city of Timbuktu, in West Africa, became legendary for the wealth it offered merchants crossing the…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment of all things archaeological that are both exotic and entertaining he worships Maya macaws, reveals the oldest…
The invention of clothing and textiles ranks, along with the development of agriculture, cooking and ceramics, as one of the keystone events…
The DNA of a man who died between 1 and 50 AD, and who was buried in a tomb on the edge…