When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
Crystal skulls previously thought to have been made by the Aztecs are revealed to be only 150 years old…
Using lasers to recreate the original vivid colours, visitors will be able to see Trajans Column as it was when erected in…
The dates of people living in Oregon's Paisley caves have been worked out from analysing DNA found in fossilised faeces…
Neil Faulkner considers the future of Rome's great Ara Pacis museum…
4000 year old jewllery found at Jiskairumoko, near lake Titicaca…
The expertise of anthropologists is being used to help the US military better understand the populations in the areas in which they…
Five years on from the US occupation of Iraq, archaeologists have been attempting to quantify the scale of the damage to heritage…
The formula used to create 'Mayan blue' used in ritual practice has finally been revealed…
France's sorcerers cave gets its own dedicated museum at Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne…
Finds of carved ivory have suggested the methods of boat building and artic hunting of prehistoric Eskimo people from the far east…
Richard Hodges writes from Kerkyra, Corfu…
Nadia Durrani visits the site of Göbekli Tepe, an 11,000 year old site that is so incredible it is changing our view…