The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
A 6,500-year-old tooth packed with beeswax could represent the earliest evidence of a dental filling, newly-published research has announced. Found in part…
The well-preserved wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman merchant ship carrying hundreds of clay amphorae has been found off the coast of Italy.…
Archaeologists have mapped the entire streetplan of a lost Roman town, revealing that what was thought to be a sleepy backwater was…
Previously thought to be little more than hillfort, is this actually the first Iron Age city north of the Alps?…
Excavations in Croatia have uncovered evidence of Palaeolithic artists who were modelling ceramic figurines at the end of the last Ice Age…
We are proud to share with you the first published photos of the House of the Telephus Relief at Herculaneum since archaeologists…
"You really wouldn't want a vampire in the house, trailing blood and gore, and smelling putrid"…
Half a dozen of us stood or crouched in the faint dawn light on either side of the great stone doorway, just…
By Claire Holleran Oxford University Press, £65.00 ISBN 978-0199698219 Researching for her PhD thesis, Holleran soon identified a gap in the…
Do the outlines of hands in Spain’s El Castillo cave belong to Homo sapiens or to their earlier Neanderthal cousins?…
The Royal Academy is planning a spectacular and innovative new exhibition that will bring together an eclectic collection of bronze artefacts spanning…
When they were built in the 2nd century AD, the great watermills at Barbegal, in the South of France, were at the…