Far below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia lies an extraordinary gallery of rock art. Exploration and research in Koonalda Cave has revealed…
Shipwercked off the Florida Keys In 1622, the Tierra Firme fleet, laden with gold, silver, pearls, and rats, was sunk off the…
Strabo, in his opus Geography, writes dismissively that the Nabataeans ‘consider dead bodies as they do dung, just as Heraclitus says: “Corpses…
Our ideas about what a Roman fort should look like are being overturned, or at least being severely challenged, by recent reconstructions…
In the first of a two-part series, Brian Fagan reveals tantalising highlights of the rich and complex history of ancient seafaring. He…
Within hours of stepping ashore, the 19th-century missionaries were dead, their bodies cut up and eaten by local chiefs. Undeterred – or…
Pingyao is an archaeological site with a difference: 30,000 people still live in it.
Once the banking capital of China, it has…
The Temple of Hera at Selinunte is testament to the grandeur of this great Classical settlement. But it is just one of…
An undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings reveals its 3,000-year-old secret…
The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its first ruler.…
Tales of the French Foreign Legion in the deserts of North Africa have fired the imagination of many an adventurous school boy.…
Inspired by an engaging new book about women in the Ancient World, Christopher Catling asks: what do art, literature, and archaeology tell…
Previously thought to be little more than hillfort, is this actually the first Iron Age city north of the Alps?…