It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of…
Florentine scientists have developed a new tool to help preserve precious fresco paintings…
Richard Hodges writes from the island of Áno Koufoníssi where he spent time with Lord Renfrew…
Peter Watson and Cecili Todeschini Public Affairs Books £15.99 This is very much a Cowboys and Indians sort of book chronicling the…
Determining age at death is one of the first assessments made of a human skeleton. In juveniles, this is straightforward: the body…
A report on the new BM exhibition space…
The many and diverse records of the Tutankhamun tomb excavation are brought into the 21st century…
Doll maker enlisted to help reconstruct the head of Bocksten Man…
DNA tests on bones of early Neolithic farmers from the Czech Republic suggests they were native to central Europe and not migrants…
Richard Hodges sends news from Lake Prespa…
In his best selling book The Da Vinci Code, the author Dan Brown says that there are just two facts in the…
CWA takes a look at the renovation project underway at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum…
A report on a Roman fort, probably built to contain a band of federate troops, excavated at Dichin in Bulgaria…