Far below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia lies an extraordinary gallery of rock art. Exploration and research in Koonalda Cave has revealed…
Crete has been an island for five million years – so the discovery of artefacts that are at least 130,000 years…
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…
Former chief archaeological advisor to English Heritage David Miles travels to Arles in Southern France. There, he pays homage to a new…
Beneath the glorious Sicilian coastal city of Siracusa lies a vast underground world, as Michael Metcalfe reveals.…
When Nigeria appears on the news, it is too often for internet scams or identity fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting victims thousands…
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal…
The Valley of the Nobles, just east of the Valley of the Kings, contains
some of the most spectacular ancient Egyptian tombs.…
From the 14th century AD the city of Timbuktu, in West Africa, became legendary for the wealth it offered merchants crossing the…
The Greek Dark Ages are no longer dark: the excavations at Lefkandi on the island of Euboea, led by Irene Lemos, have…
Feasting of a different kind was the subject of a paper in the latest issue of Antiquity (www.antiquity.ac.uk) reporting the evidence of…
The first ever excavation of a cementation steel furnace in America – in Trenton, New Jersey – is throwing new light America’s…