The monuments carved into the rose-red rock faces at Petra can be counted among the most renowned archaeological remains on the planet.…
The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was obsessed with defending his ‘paradise on earth’. He feared invasion by NATO troops using a combination…
Anyone visiting Egypt today must wonder how it struck travellers before our current understanding of its archaeological sites. Egyptologist Chris Naunton, former…
A new tool, launched this year on the anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, offers a novel high-tech way to…
Since its discovery by the British officer Tony Clunn in the late 1980s, the German site of Kalkriese in Lower Saxony, north…
This edited volume is the product of an innovative project, culminating in a multiple-day workshop of the same name as this publication,…
This low-relief limestone carving, dating to c.2400 BC, formed part of a larger votive wall plaque in a Sumerian temple in southern…
A study of the architecture of ancient Greek temples and sanctuaries dedicated to healing has determined that these spaces were deliberately made…
For thousands of years, areas along the north coast of Peru have been subject to huge flooding as a result of El…
Three leather balls have been discovered in the prehistoric Yanghai cemetery in north-west China that pre-date by several centuries all existing evidence…
A set of human footprints found in an ancient lake deposit in the south-west of the Nefud Desert is believed to represent…
On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped…
Tantra’s appeal has proven remarkably broad. What began on the margins of Indian society went on to command the patronage of royalty…