Ramses II knew how to make his mark. A fondness for ambitious architectural projects drove him to build new temples and embellish…
Grave of 5th century AD warrior discovered with surviving armour…
Project aims to study development of mud-brick enclosures dating to the Early Islamic Period…
An Anglo-Saxon hoard containg over 1,346 gold and silver items has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England…
To say Kate Whiteford, the Scottish artist, is fascinated by archaeology is an understatement. Land drawings/ installations/excavations, her newly published, and sumptuously…
Just west of the entrance to the underworld, lies the site of Baia. Mike Cless takes us there, tells of a divine…
Richard Hodges writes from Philadelphia, USA…
The discovery of an unidentified and unexplained mummy, labelled Unknown Man E, in the Royal Cache tomb in Ancient Thebes, prompted the…
This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
In 1907 two great Welsh institutions were founded – the National Library and the National Museum. One year later a third was…
And now for something completely different… the title might be a bit off-putting but the principal author, Chris Evans, is one of…
Produced to mark the 10th anniversary of the open-air Palaeolithic art of Portugal’s Côa Valley becoming a World Heritage site, this beautiful…
From the pyramids of Egypt, to St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, via the Parthenon, Petra, and Pompeii, Charles Freeman’s latest book covers…