It was a treacherous stretch of coast. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, describes the perils of…
The difficulty of defining ethnicity on the basis of genetic evidence has once again been demonstrated by the recent analysis of DNA…
What is being claimed as ‘the world’s southernmost site of early human life’, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, has been found as…
Volcanic ash from the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland caused airline havoc in April 2010, but the far bigger Toba volcanic eruption that…
With its magnificent archaeology, panoramic views, and blissful natural setting, Arycanda is one of Southwest Turkey's must-see sites, as Ays'egül Gürgezog˘ …
Between the Mediterranean and the Taurus Mountains, the Olba region of Southern Turkey is rich with archaeology. Ümit Aydinog˘lu takes us on…
Akrotiri is an archaeological monument to the rich commerce, connections, and culture of the Middle Bronze Age Mediterranean…
Mould, decay, mismanagement: having survived for millennia, the exquisite art at Lascaux is critically degrading. International rock-art expert Paul G Bahn reports.…
What do we know of Maya ritual practices? New revelations of a well-preserved sweatbath at Pook's Hill in western Belize are hot.…
Richard Hodges reflects upon a rich year at the glorious site of Butrint in Southern Albania, and on his search for one…
Stories about lost jungle civilizations are normally the staple of adventure films or the lunatic fringe. Now fiction has become reality with…
Professor João Zilhão and colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, have found pigment-stained and perforated marine shells at two Neanderthal-associated sites…
Professor Zilhão of the University of Bristol and his colleagues have used red deer teeth and bones from the Portuguese cave site…