In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
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…
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…
Michael Chaplan follows in the footsteps of early 20th century archaeologist and surveyor, Thomas Huckerby, in search of Caribbean petroglyphs…
DNA analysis suggests mystery mummy's royal identity…
New research provides more support for our African homeland…
Exquisite prehistoric figurines found…
Death of an iceman…
A missive from the new Greek and Roman Antiquities Gallery of New York's Metropolitan Museum…