In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
Australian archaeologists excavate one of South-East Asia's oldest canoes…
30,000 year old flutes discovered in Swabian Jura…
Richard Hodges travels to the 'armpit of Tuscany' to give us his inimitable perspective on its archaeology…
Oliver Stone’s new epic Alexander has hit the headlines. The New York Post has labelled it ‘Alexander the Gay’, and US Christians…
The Temple of Jerusalem is one of the most important non-existing buildings in the world. Just what was it and why was…
How do we present the Classical world to the world of today? In Panorama of the Classical World, (Thames and Hudson, £29.95),…
‘On a cold day in 1958’ writes Michael Balter ‘the history of archaeology, and of our understanding of our own origins, was…
Hillforts on the frontier of rival kingdoms…
A report on the shock discovery of a new minature species of human, homo floresiensis, who lived on the island of Flores…
Two quarries in Egypt's Eastern Desert supplied much of the best building stone for imperial Rome…
Two quarries in Egypt's eastern desert supplied much of the best building material for Imperial Rome…
Excavated in the 1960's, could this be the worlds oldest town?…