In the 13th century, the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire that the world has ever seen. At its height,…
Meet the ancestors: current research on skeletons from the Neolithic cemetery of Vedrovice is offering individual portraits of Europe's first farmers…
An account of the new discovery of a 9th century Viking pagan boat burial - the first to be discovered in Iceland…
Far from the Amazon being virgin forest, it once supported a network of densely populated towns, according to Prof. Mike Heckenberger, from…
News extra from Brian Fagan.…
Sea shells and phallic figurines found in Neolithic graves…
Beehives dating to the time of Solomon discovered in the Jordan Valley…
Aga Khan to restore Syria's medieval castles…
It is a problem that has frustrated many an archaeologist faced with recreating an ancient wall painting, mosaic or pot: just how…
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…