Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
What was it like for a barbarian to become Roman? In the book that I am writing in my retirement, or semi-retirement,…
Journeying south from the Serbian Danube presents an opportunity to revel in Roman opulence, as Oliver Gilkes reveals. The Danubian provinces of…
Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…
Divers exploring the now-submerged caves of Quintana Roo in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered evidence for red ochre mining between 12,000 and…
High on a hilltop near the village of Ploçe, Albania, lie the ruins of the ancient polis of Amantia. The city was…
Oliver Gilkes tours the Danube, in the first of a two-part exploration of Serbia’s archaeology. The mighty Danube runs for almost 2,000km…
Exploring a Founding Father’s mobile home Why was a 19th-century New York house relocated twice – and how was it done? Carly…
No matter how many years I have spent in the Mediterranean in wintertime, I cannot get it into my head that it…
As they walked across Engare Sero in northern Tanzania, a group of people left their mark in the soft surface of volcanic…
Clusters of massive stone jars in Laos have inspired considerable curiosity. Little is known about the people who fashioned them, while even…
It is one of the delights of visiting new places that you sometimes find an entirely unexpected archaeological site, which gives you…
It is a country of enchantment which poets have staked out and which they alone may lay claim to. It is nearest…