A hoard discovered in the Netherlands presents an extraordinary first for continental Europe. The contents of this cache combine coins minted by…
Cattle, sheep and goats were domesticated by the 8th millennium BC but until recently the earliest evidence for milk processing, most likely…
Andrew Selkirk travels to Madrid to discover more on maritime archaeology and trade…
Richard Hodges writes from Gettysburg, USA…
Specialist archaeological insights on the city of Timbuktu from Prof. Tim Insoll…
Maintaining conservation standards in our towns and villages is essential work but light years away from the stench of cordite in Beirut…
Instead of plastic toys that will be broken before Christmas dinner, how about one of the British Museum pocket series as stocking-fillers…
According to the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos, the Royal Tombs of Vergina, in northern Greece, belong to King Phillip II (388-336 BC) and…
John Preston’s The Dig, a story about the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo, has now been published in paperback. It…
First-time author Alice Albinia has pluck. Post-2001, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, she walks for days on end veiled in a…
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…
This is a dramatic, broad-brush treatment of ten millennia of European prehistory, written on the principle that ‘geography is about chaps, history…