The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
Since it was first excavated in 1748, the drama of Pompeii has excited the imaginations of archaeologists and tourists alike. Our impression…
The house-proud Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük inadvertantly frustrated archaeologists by keeping their homes clean. Now Lisa-Marie Shillito examines an aspect of…
There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits, and a series of massive long-houses have…
Thirty years ago my career took a memorable new turn. I had been trained in settlement archaeology and the theory and practice…
Herculaneum’s destruction is a familiar story. On the 24 August AD 79 Vesuvius erupted, sending superheated mud cascading though the town, killing…
The Abbeville tools – in context – proved the antiquity of human beings…
Were mountains treacherous zones spurned by early people? Kevin Walsh and Florence Mocci share the 10 millennia long story of life above…
Excavation of a Swedish plague pit has revealed how a small village responded to an invisible killer. Caroline Ahlström Arcini pieces together…
Last summer, one day stands out above all others: my first trip to Gordion (ancient Gordium), a Turkish city associated with Midas,…
Spanning Emperor Constantine’s inauguration of Constantinople in AD 330 to the city’s fall to the Ottomans in AD 1453, Byzantium is one…
The remains - remarkably unprepossessing amid the spectacular ruins of classical Rome all around - comprise postholes, wall-slots, and drainage gullies, defining…
In 1996, Alastair Small and his wife Carola launched a major fieldwalking project to examine the countryside near Gravina. Focusing on the…