The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
Richard Hodges reflects upon a rich year at the glorious site of Butrint in Southern Albania, and on his search for one…
Professor João Zilhão and colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, have found pigment-stained and perforated marine shells at two Neanderthal-associated sites…
Professor Zilhão of the University of Bristol and his colleagues have used red deer teeth and bones from the Portuguese cave site…
Crete has been an island for five million years – so the discovery of artefacts that are at least 130,000 years…
Former chief archaeological advisor to English Heritage David Miles travels to Arles in Southern France. There, he pays homage to a new…
Beneath the glorious Sicilian coastal city of Siracusa lies a vast underground world, as Michael Metcalfe reveals.…
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal…
The Greek Dark Ages are no longer dark: the excavations at Lefkandi on the island of Euboea, led by Irene Lemos, have…
Feasting of a different kind was the subject of a paper in the latest issue of Antiquity (www.antiquity.ac.uk) reporting the evidence of…
To the south west of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, archaeologists from Southampton University and the British School at Rome…
The invention of clothing and textiles ranks, along with the development of agriculture, cooking and ceramics, as one of the keystone events…
Périgord possesses two superlative assets: unrivalled rock art and matchless cuisine. The two seem utterly incompatible: after all, it stretches one’s imagination…