The dig The Hypogeum Ħal-Saflieni was discovered in 1902 when builders, working on a new housing development, fell through its roof. The huge underground structure…
The dig The prehistoric settlement at Lepenski Vir – the Whirlpool of Lepena – lies on a limestone shelf beside the River…
The dig The site of the Roman Imperial villa at Piazza Armerina was buried by a landslide in 1161, and the remains…
3,000 golden grave goods in Early Chalcolithic Bulgaria…
The dig Imperial rivalry and a growing awareness that little was known of a major Anatolian civilisation of Late Bronze Age and…
The dig Rather than one major campaign of excavation, it was the results from a series of interventions over almost half a…
The dig The site of Babylon – one of the oldest, richest, and most fabled cities of Antiquity – had attracted a…
The dig Ancient historian Josephus records a dramatic end to the Siege of Masada in AD 73. As the final act of…
The discovery of an intact Moche royal tomb was like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. A gang of impoverished local…
On an overland ride from England to Ceylon in 1839, Austen Henry Layard became fascinated by the newly emerging archaeology of Mesopotomia…
Flinders Petrie, an established Egyptologist, excavated three prehistoric sites in Egypt for the Egypt Exploration Fund during the 1890s…
7 game-changing finds that captured the archaeological imagination.…