In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
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…
A team of researchers led by Nottingham Trent University’s Imaging and Sensing for Archaeology, Art History and Conservation (ISAAC) lab have discovered…
The team behind a large geophysical survey in Sitka, south-east Alaska, believe they have identified the location of a 19th-century Tlingit fort,…
The Saqqara necropolis, located 30km west of Cairo, is home to a wealth of ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids. The burial ground…
Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…
It was the railways that first fired public interest in Old Oslo back in the 19th century. Although the crumbling ruins of…
Survey and excavation in a remote region of Mongolia are revealing a wealth of information about an extraordinary concentration of rock art.…
This year’s photo competition has included a wonderful array of archaeological images from around the world. Despite travel limitations over the last…
At a time of great climatic and environmental change during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, humans entered the western…