Ramses II knew how to make his mark. A fondness for ambitious architectural projects drove him to build new temples and embellish…
Stories about lost jungle civilizations are normally the staple of adventure films or the lunatic fringe. Now fiction has become reality with…
Fragments of parchment bearing part of an ancient Roman law code have been discovered by researchers at the Department of History at…
Professor João Zilhão and colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, have found pigment-stained and perforated marine shells at two Neanderthal-associated sites…
Professor Zilhão of the University of Bristol and his colleagues have used red deer teeth and bones from the Portuguese cave site…
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…