There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
From the 14th century AD the city of Timbuktu, in West Africa, became legendary for the wealth it offered merchants crossing the…
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…
Archaeologists excavating Nero’s Domus Aurea (Golden House, so-called because of its original gold-leaf interior) have found the foundations of what they believe…
Feasting of a different kind was the subject of a paper in the latest issue of Antiquity (www.antiquity.ac.uk) reporting the evidence of…
To the south west of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, archaeologists from Southampton University and the British School at Rome…
Chinese people say that many Americans and Europeans have a distinctive odour. If you ask ‘what do they smell like’, some say…
The first ever excavation of a cementation steel furnace in America – in Trenton, New Jersey – is throwing new light America’s…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment of all things archaeological that are both exotic and entertaining he worships Maya macaws, reveals the oldest…
The CWA-allied Great Arab Revolt Project has just completed its fourth season in the Jordanian desert searching for the remains of Lawrence…
The oasis town of Ghadames is an architectural gem in western Libya. It once lay on the trans-Saharan trade-route described in the…
Périgord possesses two superlative assets: unrivalled rock art and matchless cuisine. The two seem utterly incompatible: after all, it stretches one’s imagination…