Ramses II knew how to make his mark. A fondness for ambitious architectural projects drove him to build new temples and embellish…
The modern town of Mazara del Vallo lies on the south-western coast of Sicily. Created as a Phoenician outpost, it became a…
A Viking ship burial has been discovered at the site of Gjellestad in south-eastern Norway. It was first identified during a ground…
It was a typical summer day: birds, boats, sea, and ice. The difference was, the birds were Arctic geese, the boats were…
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…