The art and artefacts of ancient Egypt are still familiar around the world, but how much do we know about the people…
In his first-hand account of the Gallic Wars (Commentarii de Bello Gallico), Julius Caesar observes that the Gallic people have a moon-…
Handaxes and flakes recovered from the shores of Lake Turkana, in the remote north- western part of Kenya, are being hailed as…
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…
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…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
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…
Three opulent palaces sit within a stone's throw of each other, built when Persian kings ruled the greatest empire in the world,…
Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in Spring this year, archaeologist Simon Kaner insists there is much to celebrate…