The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Thames and Hudson, £19.95 How powerful were women in Ancient Egypt? To judge by…
What is the state of Ghana's archaeology and heritage? English Heritage's Chief Archaeological Adviser David Miles reports…
A sherd of superb pottery reveals evidence for Denmark's original colonial presence in Ghana…
What is taboo? The current exhibition at the British Museum reveals all by looking at Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860…
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…
Pharaoh's suffering statue now re-erected at Giza…
Well-preserved 'noble fighter' discovered…
Re-examination of artefacts from sites in central France reveal that Neanderthals were more like modern humans than previously thought…
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…
A rich feast of books crossed my desk this year. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to read most of them.…