The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
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New evidence from Finland shows our ancestors were chewing gum 5000 years ago…
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Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1 – Norske Oldfunn XXII) edited by Dagfinn Skre Aarhus University Press, £39.95…
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The Council for British Research in the Levant is sponsoring a Ritual Landscapes Project in search of copper age burials…
Visitors to the Great Wall of China normally only see one small stretch of the wall - the Badaling section - a…
The Archaeology of Antigua in the Caribbean, once at the epicentre of slavery, empire and wealth…
Michael Chaplan follows in the footsteps of early 20th century archaeologist and surveyor, Thomas Huckerby, in search of Caribbean petroglyphs…
Exquisite prehistoric figurines found…