A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by…
Shadow of the Silk Road Colin Thubron Chatto and Windus, £8.99 Chosen by Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute…
Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1 – Norske Oldfunn XXII) edited by Dagfinn Skre Aarhus University Press, £39.95…
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art J. David Lewis-Williams Thames & Hudson, £10.72 Chosen by John Herbert, an award-winning film director…
Michael Chaplan follows in the footsteps of early 20th century archaeologist and surveyor, Thomas Huckerby, in search of Caribbean petroglyphs…
A mosaic from the village of Smirat, Tunisia contains two long inscriptions which reveal how entertainment was put on in a Roman…
The Council for British Research in the Levant is sponsoring a Ritual Landscapes Project in search of copper age burials…
Visitors to the Great Wall of China normally only see one small stretch of the wall - the Badaling section - a…
DNA analysis suggests mystery mummy's royal identity…
New research provides more support for our African homeland…
Exquisite prehistoric figurines found…