Taking a bulldozer to open an ancient monument is not usually recommended. But, in 1977, that is exactly what Manolis Andronikos did.…
A sequence of clear, parallel lines stands out brightly against the red clay wall at the entrance to Chamber A1 in Rouffignac…
In the last 10 years, a flurry of archaeological excavation ahead of the completion of the Ilısu Dam on the River Tigris…
The ancient temples of Angkor have endured nearly a millennium of conflict and warfare, but will this new visitor boom, asks Tom…
Patagonia at the end of the Ice Age was not a pleasant place to live: it was a time of great climatic…
The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure to be found in the UK, has gone on tour to America. more…
In the museum world’s equivalent of finding an heirloom in the attic, the curators at Torquay museum discovered they own an ancient…
A multi-million dollar project to help preserve Luxor’s world-famous temples has resumed after being delayed for nine months by the Egyptian revolution.…
Museums of the world not to be missed No matter how unlikely the subject, there is bound to be a museum devoted…
Handaxes and flakes recovered from the shores of Lake Turkana, in the remote north- western part of Kenya, are being hailed as…
New thinking on the movement of Homo sapiens has also emerged from the UK. A fragment of upper jawbone with three teeth…
In his first-hand account of the Gallic Wars (Commentarii de Bello Gallico), Julius Caesar observes that the Gallic people have a moon-…