It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of…
Richard Hodges sends his regular archaeological news, this time from Cape Styllo, a 'no-man's land' between Greece and Albania…
The Bankers of Puteoli: Finance, Trade and Industry in the Roman World David Jones Tempus, £19.99 In 1955, a hoard of over…
How Claudius, and then Trajan constructed an artificial harbour to supplement Ostia…
At the sites of Orce and Cueva Victoria in Spain, the story of the early hominid colonisation of Europe is being rewritten…
Re-examination of artefacts from sites in central France reveal that Neanderthals were more like modern humans than previously thought…
Richard Hodges visits architect Richard Meier's new building that encloses the Ara Pacis, the monument to peace erected by Emperor Augustus…
Prof. Tim Darvill and Yvette Staelens of Bournemouth University send a missive from the Grotte de Niaux, a cave bursting with Palaeolithic…
In the way in which the National Museum Wales portrays Welsh identity, it stands out on the international scene as a beacon…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…
Anniversaries are always good for the reading public, as publishers issue sumptuous books which at other times are often uneconomic. It’s the…
The most familiar image in the gallery of the mind’s eye is how Carola Hicks describes The Bayeux Tapestry in her book,…
The archaeology of post-medieval fishing and trading sites along the coasts of Iceland…