Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
Joyce Tyldesley, Manchester University Egyptology is a relatively new and fast-moving science: it is not yet 200 years since Champollion decoded the hieroglyphic script…
Nicholas Kropacek, Eastern Turkey Tours Eastern Turkey is one of those truly undiscovered parts of the world that are rare to find today.…
Chris Naunton, Director of the Egypt Exploration Society It is worth reminding ourselves just how thrilling archaeology in Egypt has continued to be, despite…
Denise Allen, Andante Travels There has been a curious contrast over the past decade: while archaeology has been hit hard by the…
The dig The site of the Roman Imperial villa at Piazza Armerina was buried by a landslide in 1161, and the remains…
A Roman retreat Eighteen Roman emperors came from Serbia – more than anywhere else outside Italy. One of them was Gaius Galerius…
Off the beaten track in Iraqi Kurdistan For millennia, empires have clashed in the breathtaking landscape of Mesopotamia, leaving in their wake…
Mistra, the Byzantine capital of the Peloponnese, is the most exquisitely beautiful of places, an unforgettable combination of peerless art and important…
3,000 golden grave goods in Early Chalcolithic Bulgaria…
Tom St John Gray goes in search of the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City. With limited Chinese, I boarded…
Archaeologists have found the missing head of a 40,000 year old figurine, whose body was excavated in 1931. The two pieces have…
A unique gold figurine in the shape of a woman, thought to be 1,500 years old, has been found close to a…