Deep beneath Australia’s Nullarbor Plain lies Koonalda Cave. Lakes can be found within its subterranean passages, a matter of no little import…
Excavation at a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in south-east Spain has uncovered the burial of an elite couple dating to about 1650 BC.…
In July 1916, 450 of the 2,500 British and (mostly) Australian soldiers killed during two days of fighting at Fromelles in northern France…
The Moche were the first empire-builders of the American continent, more than eight centuries before the Incas, and just as deserving of fame as…
Today, nothing survives in the hot, arid environment of the Taklamakan Desert in north-western China. Yet, it is thanks to these conditions that…
Finding the archaeological evidence for a major turning point in history is something few archaeologists will experience. Finding the remains of a sea battle…
Our cover feature reads like detective fiction: archaeologists come across a pharaoh’s sarcophagus stolen in antiquity that leads them to the discovery of the…
Little is known of the fierce warrior nomads who occupied the southern region of the Ural Mountains in modern-day Russia about 2,500 years…
Richard Hodges explores the history and archaeology of the Spanish Basque Country.…
Nearly 20 years of digging in and writing about Albania's ancient sites has left a vivid impression on archaeologist and traveller Oliver…
The dig The Hypogeum Ħal-Saflieni was discovered in 1902 when builders, working on a new housing development, fell through its roof. The huge underground structure…
How often do you visit a rock-art site armed only with binoculars? You do at Bangudae, on South Korea's east coast, and…
Exploring Iron Age burial mounds on the Trail of Princes, Patrick Skinner sets out from the country's capital on a voyage of…