When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
Structural damage to Alhambra is due to seismic activity…
Researchers use stronium in bones to distinguish between population groups…
Oldest known beads found in Africa show modern human behaviour…
Peking Man was one of the first 'men' to break out of Africa. He was discovered in the 1920s, but is only…
Richard Hodges looks at rescue archaeology in Spain, and is sceptical about UNESCO's plans for Alhambra…
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…
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…