When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt John Ray, Profile £15.99 Which object lends its name to internationally known software…
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the decline of the West Adrian Murdoch Sutton, £18.99 Romulus Augustulus is very much the forgotten…
David Miles considers how Berlin is dealing with its recent heritage including a look at Libeskind's Jewish Museum and Eiserman's Holocaust Memorial…
Did the great Maya civilisation really collapse? Jim Aimers writes of the intriguing evidence from Lamanai, the splendid Maya site in northern…
The life and times of Carter from the biography 'Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun' by HVF Winstone…
John Herbert reports on the glorious exhibition 'Afghanistan, les trésors retrouvés' currently on show at the Guimet Museum, Paris…
Archaeological investigations reveal the canal built by the Persian king Xerxes in northern Greece…
Following the success of the 1970s tour of Tutankhamun, the boy-king is back on the road, currently wowing crowds in the US…
Archaeologists discover evidence of ritual activity dating back 70,000 years in Kalahari cave…
The controversial find of 'Hobbit like' skeleton, has concluded with new hominid species being declared…
Researchers at UCL have revealed the chemical make up of Hessian crucibles using X--ray diffraction…
Richard Hodges visits the distinguished Danish archaeologist Klavs Randsborg and together they explore Denmark's past…