In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
Excavations from two caves on Gibraltar, show Neanderthals, like modern humans exploited marine foods as part of their diet…
The Great Arab Revolt Project: T E Lawrence's Jordan…
Richard Hodges explores Byzantine Kastoria in Greece…
Babar Javed takes us to Borobudur, Java…
Alexandra has suffered badly. The once magnificent city has been a quarry for builders throughout the ages. In AD 836 it was…
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This title is a general survey of the classical world, but one which includes material on the Etruscans alongside the Greeks and…
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece Jenifer Neils British Museum Press, pb £14.99 The Ancient Greeks for Dummies Stephen Batchelor,…
When Arthur Evans started digging at Knossos on Crete in 1900, a major aim was to find inscriptions and prove that the…
The third of a series on great rulers, following on from the Chinese first Emperor and Hadrian. How does Shah 'Abbas measure…
Golden Mycenae is one of the most famous ancient towns in the world, but how did it work? In the first…
The ‘Red Snake’, or Gorgan Wall, of northern Iran is one of the world’s greatest frontiers. But who built it? And…