A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by…
Did the great Maya civilisation really collapse? Jim Aimers writes of the intriguing evidence from Lamanai, the splendid Maya site in northern…
The life and times of Carter from the biography 'Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun' by HVF Winstone…
The controversial find of 'Hobbit like' skeleton, has concluded with new hominid species being declared…
Researchers at UCL have revealed the chemical make up of Hessian crucibles using X--ray diffraction…
Archaeologists discover evidence of ritual activity dating back 70,000 years in Kalahari cave…
Bisitun, site of a rock-cut relief that enabled the decipherment of cuneiform Babylonian has been made into a World Heritage monument…
Richard Hodges visits the distinguished Danish archaeologist Klavs Randsborg and together they explore Denmark's past…
New Light on the Black Death: the cosmic connection Mike Baillie, Tempus £17.99 Everyone knows the Black Death of 1348 was…
Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavated His Past Michael Coe, Thames and Hudson, £18.95 Michael Coe is one of the great figures of…
David Thorpe reports on the first stages of fieldwork to uncover evidence of Lawrence of Arabia…
The British Academy axes Egypt and Iraq…
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) has recently heard that, in two years’ time, it will lose its funding from the British Academy.…