Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece Jenifer Neils British Museum Press, pb £14.99 The Ancient Greeks for Dummies Stephen Batchelor,…
When Arthur Evans started digging at Knossos on Crete in 1900, a major aim was to find inscriptions and prove that the…
In 1694, HMS Sussex was lost in the Straits of Gibraltar, buried deep beneath the sea…
An extended feature on Messene, the best preserved city in the southern Peloponnese…
An Iron Age slab found in south-east Turkey conatains first known written mention of the soul…
Richard Hodges gets gourmand in Spello, Italy…
How radiocarbon dating revolutionised our concept of social evolution.…
The Roman city of Clunia has many prestigious monuments, such as the massive theatre shown on the cover. So why was the…
An account of the new discovery of a 9th century Viking pagan boat burial - the first to be discovered in Iceland…
A retrospective on the work of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary this year…
Meet the ancestors: current research on skeletons from the Neolithic cemetery of Vedrovice is offering individual portraits of Europe's first farmers…
Andrew Selkirk travels to Madrid to discover more on maritime archaeology and trade…