The dig Imperial rivalry and a growing awareness that little was known of a major Anatolian civilisation of Late Bronze Age and…
To early Orientalists, they were exotic people who used arcane ritual and repulsive medicines; but in Antiquity, Egyptian doctors were regarded as…
Rocky Cappadocia played a significant role in the history of Byzantium, yet little is known of this remote area. Eric Cooper explores…
For nearly 5,000 years, the sanctuary site at Tas-Silġ lured worshippers to its idyllic island setting overlooking the blue waters of the…
Archaeologists in Cologne are completing the city’s biggest project of its kind ahead of construction for a new railway network. When it…
UK, Iraqi, and Iranian archaeologists are uniting for the sake of preserving world heritage. Is this, Roger Matthews asks, a model for…
Sailors, from the Neolithic to the Byzantine periods, approaching the shores of Malta from the south east could not have failed to…
Ongoing excavations at Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in America, have revealed grisly evidence that within months of establishing the…
New research on the remains of ‘Oetzi’, the world’s oldest wet mummy, has revealed that his violent death was not the only…