Ramses II knew how to make his mark. A fondness for ambitious architectural projects drove him to build new temples and embellish…
The most familiar image in the gallery of the mind’s eye is how Carola Hicks describes The Bayeux Tapestry in her book,…
Prehistoric people were not like us. Despite attempts by archaeologists to separate settlements from ceremonial sites, burial places from work places, and…
Animal bone reports can be dry stuff so it is good to see a spate of interesting books about the complex and…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…
The cover says it all – or seems to. A gung-ho romp through the sandy wastes of the Arabian Empty Quarter in…
Anniversaries are always good for the reading public, as publishers issue sumptuous books which at other times are often uneconomic. It’s the…
A new exhibition in Hamburg, Germany is investigating one of the worlds most notorious women…
A medieval site of massive industry: the once-booming and cosmopolitan city of Raqqa, on the banks of the Euphrates, Syria…
The archaeology of post-medieval fishing and trading sites along the coasts of Iceland…
We look down upon 8m of stratigraphy at the caravanserai of Gor Khuttree in North Pakistan…
Excavations at the Late Kushite city of Dangeil in Sudan reveal a temple of Amun, and a massive bread-making facility…
New research indicates that self-adornment seems to be an archaic human trait…