There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
A seemingly unassuming lump of corroded bronze has confounded investigators for more than a century, ever since it proved to contain precision…
Encounters with advanced technologies from ancient civilisations are usually the stuff of adventure fiction rather than archaeological research. When the chance discovery…
It is winter. The kitchen is humming with activity, as sheep’s wool is prepared for textile production and fires are kept up.…
In AD 749, the Middle East was struck by a devastating earthquake. Numerous cities suffered serious damage, including Jerash, which is now…
We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
What? Go to Florence to visit an archaeological museum? What about the great monuments of the Renaissance, or the museums and galleries…
Perpetually basking in a blazing luminous light, Ithaca boasts fine if unexceptional archaeological sites. With its well-signposted walking trails and numerous fish…
New Burlington House, a large Palladian building in Mayfair, has been home to the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Linnean Society,…
This cigar box, containing several wooden splinters that make up a piece of cedar discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza, was…
A cargo of ancient African ivory recovered from a 16th-century shipwreck is shedding light on early trade networks and historical elephant populations.…
Excavations in Mexico City have discovered a new section of the Aztec skull rack known as the Huei Tzompantli.…
Indonesia is home to some of the world’s oldest cave art, and several significant discoveries have been made in the area in…