It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of…
The crisis in Vesuvian archaeology runs deep. Pompeii is fast degrading, with walls crumbling, frescoes erased by the sun, plaster dropping off…
Pompeii has featured in fiction many times. The first-century Roman novelist Petronius set his Satyricon in the Bay of Naples, and one…
Interpreting Pompeii Many of the older studies of Pompeii seem rather dry today. Architecture, mosaics and frescoes were classified into types. Houses…
Exclusive report on the effects of the devestating 26.12.2003 earthquake on the historical remains of Bam, Iran…
Excavations in the Unbelievers City at Merv have revealed a workers' quarter and evidence for steel making in the 9th century AD…
A look at recent archaeology in Jordan with a special focus on the reconstruction of the Neolithic village of Beidha…
The archaeology of a Roman technological revolution: the cheiroballistra…
A royal fort in the Hindu Kush, and its seige in 1895: Bill Woodburn and Neil Faulkner report…
Oldest buildings of their type discovered on island of Marawah…
A major new museum has been planned for Giza, Egypt…
Conference on medieval Japanese archaeology…
Exciting finds fromsite on the river Cetina in Croatia…