The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
New thinking on the movement of Homo sapiens has also emerged from the UK. A fragment of upper jawbone with three teeth…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
In the museum world’s equivalent of finding an heirloom in the attic, the curators at Torquay museum discovered they own an ancient…
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
In this beautifully illustrated new compendium of ancient Greek material culture, Richard Neer spans 2,350 years of art history from the Bronze…
Excavation following the discovery of the tomb of Philip II in Vergina (see p20) posed two huge problems: how to preserve the…
The Ashmolean Museum’s new Egypt and Nubia galleries are now open to the public, after a £5m refurbishment. The project involved a…
Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in Spring this year, archaeologist Simon Kaner insists there is much to celebrate…