These tombs were the final resting places of Japan’s ancient elites, and form part of a broader East Asian funerary tradition, aspects…
Excavation of a Samurai castle in Okinawa, the island 400 miles to the south of Japan…
Jeffrey May tries to understand the rock art of South Africa…
Nebra Sun Disc discovered…
Oldest known beads found in Africa show modern human behaviour…
Structural damage to Alhambra is due to seismic activity…
Forst evidence of controlled fire found…
Researchers use stronium in bones to distinguish between population groups…
Richard Hodges looks at rescue archaeology in Spain, and is sceptical about UNESCO's plans for Alhambra…
Peking Man was one of the first 'men' to break out of Africa. He was discovered in the 1920s, but is only…
Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt: Life in Death for Rich and Poor Wolfram Grajetzki, Gerald Duckworth & Co., £14.99 Wolfram Grajetzki’s comprehensive…
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: a Compendium Ed. Elizabeth Peters, Constable & Robinson, £19.99 This is a book that is both charming and dangerous.…
In 1921, the Swedish geologist Gunnar Andersson and his palaeontological assistant Otto Zdansky, an Austrian, discovered some intriguing fossil bones in a…