Supplying Constantinople with water was a monumental challenge that received a monumental solution. Examining the extraordinary remains of aqueducts, bridges, and cisterns…
Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…
High on a hilltop near the village of Ploçe, Albania, lie the ruins of the ancient polis of Amantia. The city was…
Oliver Gilkes tours the Danube, in the first of a two-part exploration of Serbia’s archaeology. The mighty Danube runs for almost 2,000km…
No matter how many years I have spent in the Mediterranean in wintertime, I cannot get it into my head that it…
It is one of the delights of visiting new places that you sometimes find an entirely unexpected archaeological site, which gives you…
It is a country of enchantment which poets have staked out and which they alone may lay claim to. It is nearest…
Portugal’s Côa Valley contains Europe’s greatest collection of open-air Ice Age images. Across 17km, there are currently more than 530 known panels…
Investigating an isolated Neolithic tomb in Andalucía has revealed a new dimension to its rock art. What can this tell us about…
Now housed in the Prince’s Palace in Copenhagen, the National Museum of Denmark has one of the oldest established collections of prehistoric…
Zeugma – now a name to conjure with. Site of a bridge across the Euphrates, connecting the Mediterranean to Persia and, by…
Fragments of ivory found in a German cave on the eve of war have been reconstructed to create a magnificent ‘Lion Man’.…
Excavations near Ferrandina in southern Italy, an area rich in sites dating from the Iron Age to the Lucanian period (8th-3rd century…