It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of…
Researchers use stronium in bones to distinguish between population groups…
Richard Hodges looks at rescue archaeology in Spain, and is sceptical about UNESCO's plans for Alhambra…
Peking Man was one of the first 'men' to break out of Africa. He was discovered in the 1920s, but is only…
Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt: Life in Death for Rich and Poor Wolfram Grajetzki, Gerald Duckworth & Co., £14.99 Wolfram Grajetzki’s comprehensive…
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: a Compendium Ed. Elizabeth Peters, Constable & Robinson, £19.99 This is a book that is both charming and dangerous.…
In 1921, the Swedish geologist Gunnar Andersson and his palaeontological assistant Otto Zdansky, an Austrian, discovered some intriguing fossil bones in a…
The Moundbuilders George R. Milner, Thames and Hudson, £28.00 If you go to America, and land on the East Coast, then cross…
Map of the ancient town…
Current excavations and survey in the Roaring Creek valley in Belize bring to life an ancient Maya community…
Investigating the devestating eruption of Mount Versuvius that snubbed out all life in Pompeii…
Was Pompeii an Etruscan planned city? Reading University's excavations of the House of Amarantus…
The revelations of Bradford University's excavations of the city at the time of the Caesars, with a focus on architecture, sanitation and…