Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
Simon Martin on cracking the all-important Maya code…
How did the city of Sweyhat thrive in the Mesopotamian outback?…
David Gilman Romano reports on Zeus' cultic site, with its mountain-top ash alter, famed throughout Ancient Greek…
Until recently, the Middle Mekong Basin has been terra incognita, archaeologically speaking. Now, a team is revealing its past.…
Richard Hodges The Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, considers the Museum's future…
Penn's Prof. Brian Rose takes us to Troy, the site he has excavated for the past 20 years…
Modern techniques are being used to recreate a 2,000 year old scientific instrument discovered in the wreck of a Roman ship…
Cuds of masticated seaweed, dating from 14,220 and 13,980 have been found in hearths at Monte Verde settlement in southern Chile…
The Buddhas of Bamiyan have revealed oil paints being used to decorate associated caves in the mid 7th century AD…
Though huge distances separate the islands of Fiji from the nearest continents, the Lapita people made the 3,000km journey around 1100BC…
Archaeologists make a surprise find on the bed of the River Rhône…
Finds from Mycenae are altering our view of the role of women in ancient Greek society…