At first, they came by sea, carrying cargoes of broken objects destined to be deposited…

It sounds more like Hollywood than archaeology: thousands of life-size sculpted soldiers, brandishing real weapons…

Analyses of graves in the Jacobin convent in Rennes (western France) have revealed previously unknown…

Crossing the Caucasus, Europe's highest mountain range, is not for the faint-hearted, and nowhere is…

Metropolis, not Superman's home town but the Ionian City of the Mother Goddess, was a major…

The spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 brought the 18th Dynasty teenage pharaoh 20th-century celebrity…

In France, archaeologists have uncovered a huge Iron Age chariot burial that is puzzling archaeologists. It…

The spectacular untouched tomb of Prince Liang Zhuang, favourite brother of the Ming emperor Xuande, has…

In July 1916, 450 of the 2,500 British and (mostly) Australian soldiers killed during two days…

Today, nothing survives in the hot, arid environment of the Taklamakan Desert in north-western China. Yet,…