The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
How Claudius, and then Trajan constructed an artificial harbour to supplement Ostia…
At the sites of Orce and Cueva Victoria in Spain, the story of the early hominid colonisation of Europe is being rewritten…
What is the state of Ghana's archaeology and heritage? English Heritage's Chief Archaeological Adviser David Miles reports…
What is taboo? The current exhibition at the British Museum reveals all by looking at Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860…
Pharaoh's suffering statue now re-erected at Giza…
Re-examination of artefacts from sites in central France reveal that Neanderthals were more like modern humans than previously thought…
Well-preserved 'noble fighter' discovered…
Prof. Tim Darvill and Yvette Staelens of Bournemouth University send a missive from the Grotte de Niaux, a cave bursting with Palaeolithic…
Richard Hodges visits architect Richard Meier's new building that encloses the Ara Pacis, the monument to peace erected by Emperor Augustus…
The most familiar image in the gallery of the mind’s eye is how Carola Hicks describes The Bayeux Tapestry in her book,…
The cover says it all – or seems to. A gung-ho romp through the sandy wastes of the Arabian Empty Quarter in…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…