It is easy to see the Thracians as stereotypes. According to the ancient literature, they were riders, warriors, and capable of horrifying…
Excavations are underway at the soldiers tomb in Petra, Jordna. Here there is both a tomb and a ritual dining room…
The revelation of three First World War victims at Serre, resting place of Wilson Owen…
Deep in the heart of Transylvania, at the long dead colonia of Apulum, the archaeologists have been uncovering a shrine to the…
Medieval skeletons reveal ckues to the nature of disease in the middle ages…
Archaeology revealed by Tsunami around world heritage site of Mahabalipuram…
An exhibition in the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem draws together diverse collection of ancient oil lamps…
Capcom releases historical video game…
Oldest known skeleton in the UAE discovered…
Cultivated rice dating back 10,000 years discovered in China…
Richard Hodges looks at the Greco-Roman city of Apollonia…
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive, by Jared Diamond (Penguin hardback, £20) is the sort of book that archaeologists should…
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) is often dismissed simply as an intrepid lady explorer/amateur archaeologist: ‘The Daughter of the Desert or a kind of…