It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of…
A 45,000-year-old toddler’s milk tooth, found in southern Italy, is evidence of the first modern humans to reach Europe. Stefano Benazzi, of…
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
In this beautifully illustrated new compendium of ancient Greek material culture, Richard Neer spans 2,350 years of art history from the Bronze…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
Excavation following the discovery of the tomb of Philip II in Vergina (see p20) posed two huge problems: how to preserve the…
The Ashmolean Museum’s new Egypt and Nubia galleries are now open to the public, after a £5m refurbishment. The project involved a…
A superbly carved and intact lion sculpture, excavated by a Canadian team in south-eastern Turkey, is reminiscent of the lions excavated by…
Scandinavian and British experts meeting at an academic conference in Reykjavík have been debating the origin of the 12th-century Lewis Chessmen, a…
I have returned to Knidos after 40 years. Across the decades you forget the outlines of the trenches and the stratigraphic relationships…
Francophile David Miles pulls on his hiking boots, and sets off in search of Neolithic farmers in the South of France.…