These tombs were the final resting places of Japan’s ancient elites, and form part of a broader East Asian funerary tradition, aspects…
The Valley of the Nobles, just east of the Valley of the Kings, contains
some of the most spectacular ancient Egyptian tombs.…
The invention of clothing and textiles ranks, along with the development of agriculture, cooking and ceramics, as one of the keystone events…
The DNA of a man who died between 1 and 50 AD, and who was buried in a tomb on the edge…
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…
To the south west of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, archaeologists from Southampton University and the British School at Rome…
The first ever excavation of a cementation steel furnace in America – in Trenton, New Jersey – is throwing new light America’s…
In Brian Fagan's latest instalment of all things archaeological that are both exotic and entertaining he worships Maya macaws, reveals the oldest…
Périgord possesses two superlative assets: unrivalled rock art and matchless cuisine. The two seem utterly incompatible: after all, it stretches one’s imagination…
The CWA-allied Great Arab Revolt Project has just completed its fourth season in the Jordanian desert searching for the remains of Lawrence…