The monuments carved into the rose-red rock faces at Petra can be counted among the most renowned archaeological remains on the planet.…
Professor João Zilhão and colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, have found pigment-stained and perforated marine shells at two Neanderthal-associated sites…
Beneath the glorious Sicilian coastal city of Siracusa lies a vast underground world, as Michael Metcalfe reveals.…
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…
To the south west of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, archaeologists from Southampton University and the British School at Rome…