There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
Excavations from Kazakhstan reveal horse domestication to be some 5,500 years old…
Second part of the Peru Special - the Moche Route of the Northern coast in more depth…
Richard Hodges obsesses over Medieval Comacchio, Italy…
David Turner tours Diriyah, Saudi Arabia…
By Barry B. Powell Wiley-Blackwell, £50.00 ‘AOCCDRNIG TO RSCHEEARCH AT CMABRIGDE UINERVTISY, IT DEOSN’T MTTAER IN WAHT OREDR THE LTTEERS IN A…
Telling the time is basic to archaeology. It has never been straightforward. At first, there were just historical dates – dates recorded…
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Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope…
The ruins of Great Zimbabwe extend over 720 hectares of rocky hill and valley in south-central Zimbabwe. Yet it's origins were often…
There is a range of other must-see sites on the Northern coastal ‘Moche Route’ that date from before and after the Moche…
Who is Alexander Selkirk? Aside from being our publisher‘s brother, he was also the inspiration for the world’s most famous castaway. Writer…
Two hearths, three postholes, and a fragment from a nautical instrument: could this be the shelter of Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson…