At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
It is winter. The kitchen is humming with activity, as sheep’s wool is prepared for textile production and fires are kept up.…
New Burlington House, a large Palladian building in Mayfair, has been home to the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Linnean Society,…
Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…
Survey and excavation in a remote region of Mongolia are revealing a wealth of information about an extraordinary concentration of rock art.…
This year’s photo competition has included a wonderful array of archaeological images from around the world. Despite travel limitations over the last…
On 10 November 2020, the exhibition Iron Age – Europe without Borders opened at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, despite…
This granite statue depicts Pharaoh Ramesses VI, who reigned 1144-1137 BC. On the back is a hieroglyphic inscription that reads: ‘May [he]live,…
A geoglyph has been discovered on a hillside in the Nazca desert of Peru during the emergency project ‘Cleaning, Conservation and Restoration…
Discovering a previously unsuspected Roman cemetery would normally rank as the archaeological highlight of a building project. Recent work on Corsica, though,…
Sicily was famed in antiquity for its agricultural prosperity. An eloquent witness of its late Roman wealth is provided by the great…
A new tool, launched this year on the anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, offers a novel high-tech way to…
This low-relief limestone carving, dating to c.2400 BC, formed part of a larger votive wall plaque in a Sumerian temple in southern…