A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by…
An Iron Age slab found in south-east Turkey conatains first known written mention of the soul…
The adoption of green beads used for jewllery coincides with the adoption of agriculture…
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Five lines of faded characters written in ink and divided by black lines on a scrap of pottery measuring 15 by 15cm…
Excavators at Herodium have reiterated their claim that have found king Herod's sarcophagus…
Fictional accounts may coincide with historical copper mines at Khirbat en-Nahas…
George Nash explores the rock-art of Malaysia and invites readers to join in…
Richard Hodges gets gourmand in Spello, Italy…
Archaeological insights on the city of Lepcis Magna in Libya from specialist Philip Kenrick…
For the next two decades, tourists visiting Palenque were told that the body was that of an unknown Maya king. Then, in…
Henri Cartier-Bresson was certainly no archaeologist, but his mid-20th century photographs of ancient sites and cultural traditions, especially in Asia, will be…
‘The paintings handed down by my ancestors are perhaps the most important of the Jodhpur royal collections’, writes the present maharaja of…