There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
Jeremy Sabloff, the former Director of Penn Museum, wants to make archaeology more relevant to the contemporary world. ‘Action archaeology’ turns out…
The University Museum’s North American collections are justly famous and owe much of their existence to Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit elder from…
There is no shortage of books on Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and the Amarna period. However, many try to focus on some aspect of…
The Maya civilization of Mesoamerica encompassed the entirety of what are now the countries of Guatemala and Belize and large parts of…
Latest finds from the Ryukyu islands, including a series of royal burials…
Once a thriving Iron Age settlement, the city and its necropolis is now offering a wealth of evidence about the elusive Vaccaei…
Here Neil Faulkner presents a portrait of Hadrian from his new book Rome: empire of the eagles…
The gamut of rock art from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma) and China is explored…
Scott M Fitzpatrick takes us to one of the oldest-known cemeteries from the Pacific, at Palau, Micronesia…
The dates of people living in Oregon's Paisley caves have been worked out from analysing DNA found in fossilised faeces…
The formula used to create 'Mayan blue' used in ritual practice has finally been revealed…
The expertise of anthropologists is being used to help the US military better understand the populations in the areas in which they…